Sentences with phrase «carrots and sticks do»

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He discovered that external factors (carrots and sticks) don't really motivate employees.

Carrots and sticks are fine, but when you violate who we are as people, when you challenge our pride, when you don't respect what we need... the quality of your idea doesn't really matter.

Typically, workplace - wellness programs employ a «carrot - and - stick» approach where the employee is financially rewarded for participation through lower health - care premiums and penalized with higher premiums if they do not participate.

It doesn't so much control our lives as it engulfs and overwhelms us with sticks and carrots that continually influence our behavior.

«We truly despise the carrot - and - stick approach,» Jia said in a veiled swipe at Trump's threats to cut aid or impose tariffs on Latin American nations that do not do more to further efforts to create more US jobs and combat drug trafficking.

It's harder to say how long it might take to get the broader industry to the same level of environmental performance, especially while the regulatory carrots and sticks for doing so remain weak.

The donkey does not walk because he pledges to walk, but because of the carrot and the stick.

You need a carrot or even better, and this is not depressing, this is useful, a meaningful stick if you don't do what you have said is important for you to do.

If someone acts as if they have the final say about you «getting to heaven,» remember first that «getting to heaven» isn't even the point of Christian faith, and second, that anybody using a carrot on a stick to manipulate your behaviors doesn't follow the God who gives grace with crazy generosity.

In most other respects, your basic moral outlook is indistinguishable from that of the liberal Christian — you just don't need the mother of all carrots and sticks hanging over your head in order to act in a manner that you consider moral.

I don't need «stick and carrot» to do that.

We just don't need the mother of all carrots and sticks hanging over our head in order to act in a manner that we consider moral.

< 3 Beef stew, or according to my husband, THE beef stew slightly adapted from Do - Ahead Dinners: How to Feed Friends and Family Without the Frenzy 1/2 large onion 1 medium carrot, peeled 1 small stick of celery 2 garlic cloves, peeled olive oil 70g bacon in small cubes 500g round steak in bite sized pieces 1 tablespoon all purpose flour salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 2 tablespoons crushed canned tomatoes 2/3 cup (160 ml) red wine — not your cheapest, not your best 2 tablespoons water 1 bay leaf 3 sprigs of fresh thyme 1 sprig fresh oregano, + a few leaves extra for serving Preheat the oven to 150 °C / 300 °F.

Just yesterday, I was complaining about the amount of carrot sticks and steamed carrots I eat and that I needed to do something different.

The flavor is subtle yet delicious, and you can serve this dip with whole grain tortilla chips such as I did, or serve it with crudités such as carrot and celery sticks alongside small cauliflower and broccoli florets.

But do you know what tastes even better with dill dip than carrot and celery sticks?

And yes David did stick two random pieces of roasted carrot on his... verdict?

It doesn't take much time to break off a couple broccoli florets, slice some zucchini, and throw in a few cherry tomatoes and carrot sticks into a container.

Pour reserved fat and any fat still in skillet (don't forget to scrape out the crispy bits stuck to the bottom of the pan) over carrots, season with salt and pepper, and toss to coat.

In a pan (preferably non stick) big enough (make sure it is a big saucepan as the milk does boil and froth over a lot), add the milk and grated carrot and cook on medium heat till all the milk evaporates, about 15 - 20 minutes.

I think Hitch is all stick and no carrot and I don't think that works very often.

Which is why this weekend was a building marathon if ever there was one, all hands on deck, let's get it done kind of a time - working by headlamp well into the evening, eating popcorn and carrot sticks for lunch and ordering out pizza for dinner.

So how do we get our kids weaned off these foods and back onto the path of orange slices and carrot sticks?

In those which do not have a salad bar (which is most of them) we offer a different fresh vegetable, cut up and in individual servings, several days a week — baby carrots, jicama, zucchini sticks, cucumber, celery — and new this year, sitting right on the mainline is a bin with a plex dome on top that holds fresh dark leafy greens like romaine, or broccoli, once a week.

From there, we did carrot and celery sticks, which were coincidentally great for teething.

In a world of carrot - and - stick diplomacy, he is an unabashed stick man: «I don't do carrots.»

«She doesn't have much in the way of carrots and sticks.

«Jeremy must do it not with the carrots and sticks he offers but by ensuring accountability to the members.

To those carrots, Cuomo adds two sticks: Skelos doesn't want to discuss tougher ethics standards until after the budget is done, and he'd like to stall proposals for nonpartisan redistricting — the adoption of which would be a demographic death sentence for his Republican majority.

Mick Mount and Ning Li, management and organization professors in the Tippie College of Business, note that a growing body of evidence suggests that if a worker's personality doesn't fit the job requirements, he or she will not be motivated by external factors, no matter how tasty the carrot or painful the stick.

Our unique qualities do not just extend to our physical characteristics but also to our personalities and with 20 years of experience in training clients I know that neither the carrot nor the stick will work with everybody all of the time.

When people hear about raw foods, they usually think that it's all to do with eating a few salad leaves with some sticks of carrot and so is a dull and tasteless diet.

Don't fancy a carrot and celery stick for breakfast and my husband will divorce me if I put just raw vegetables and fruit in his lunchbox.

No one goes to a holiday party so they can do nothing but nibble on carrot sticks and hummus while drinking sparkling water.

If a cooler and ice is not available, stick with foods that don't need to be refrigerated but will last for a few days, like apples, bananas, oranges, pears, peaches, whole grain cereals, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, nuts, seeds, and whole grain crackers.

Some of the toughest guys around and doing battle in the octagon are snacking on carrot sticks and celery.

Such actions rely on what political scientist Joseph Nye called «hard power» — carrots and sticks that coerce or compel people to change what they do.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

Like VW's previous Type 2 - style revivals, the 2001 Microbus Concept and 2012's «Bulli» concept, the I.D. Buzz is little more than a carrot on a stick, with no evidence of plans for production at least in the short term - but it does serve to illustrate the company's renewed focus on electric vehicles in the coming years.

the fact is covers DO MATTER, but I agree using cover design, and illustrators as a «carrot and stick» diss to authors isn't right or helpful.

My laptop, an iPad, my cell phone, a plaque that reads «if you can dream it, you can do it — Walt Disney», a bottle of water and some carrot sticks.

The campaign does occasionally dole out an additional wrinkle to Scout and Aesop's journey — proverbial carrots at the ends of sticks to lead the player further down the river.

Although, like individual people, they often don't like sticks, free markets respond to carrots and sticks, and carrots and (sometimes) sticks are necessary.

Money — for the right - thinking think tanks, the loyal candidates, and the can - do Beltway lobbyists — has always been their carrot, but the Plutocrats now have a stick.

If OHSU needed an incentive to create a program that pays a small but welcome cash incentive to cyclists, how do we create or recreate that carrot or stick at other companies and entities so that they will do something similar?

They have available to them many tools to do this, which resolve to the same two basic classes as the treaty scenario: carrots and sticks.

Tell someone they are responsible and will be rewarded («carrot»), punished («stick») or both («carrot and stick»), and something will get done.

The conference, held at Stanford Law School, was titled «Beyond Carrots and Sticks: Motivating Students to Do Their Best Work.»

Or maybe the offer is for a short term «gig» with a carrot - and - stick full - time offer if you do well (of course, there is no guarantee).

Pink lays out seven major reasons that the «carrots and sticks» motivation doesn't work.