Sentences with phrase «about changing people»

Biddle said: «A lot of government policies are about changing people's behaviour; we need to make sure those policy designs are effective and don't have negative unintended consequences.»

I'm talking about changing people's attitudes, and the choices they make as a result, so we might look at the selling of air travel, and possible less CO2 - intensive alternatives.

In these sessions, we will talk about changing people's behaviors to improve communications and outcomes.

We need a clear and progressive message and a message about changing people economic reality.

Support is not about changing people, it is about seeing and meeting them, in their life and helping them grow while maintaining safety, vigilance, and prosperity.

But it's not necessarily about changing people, right?

«It was really about changing people's mentality so they wouldn't shop anywhere else.»

So much of what we do is about changing people's lives through great design.

Not exact matches

Data and research and scholarly journals are great, but people like Dale, people with a pubic platform willing to talk openly about their experiences, spread awareness and create change at a much faster rate than would otherwise have been possible.

In the season three premiere, it's not just about the technology itself, but also the way in which it changes how people behave and react to others.

And who cares if a couple of people think I'm being an attention whore for talking about this in such a real way if it actually does help change a few minds?

«We were very quietly dating for about six months before it became news, and I was working during that whole time, and the only thing that changed was people's perception,» the 36 - year - old «Suits» actress also said.

Recognizing that people can change and be having constant conversations about priorities is a habit that all couples can benefit from.

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad — the No. 1 personal finance book of all time — Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money.

The two CEOs hope that the changes resulting from the merger will be implemented over the next couple of years, creating a «dramatic change» for consumers in which the store will be «not just about products, but also service offerings that can help people on their path to better health.»

At the time, she also used Instagram as a platform to implore people to «change the conversation» about body shapes in the modeling industry.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

The campaign undertaken to drive in more attention towards the company's website was a fairly local one with a slogan called «changing lives» and needed people to participate by messaging or emailing friends and letting them know about the campaign and its benefits.

How do you make these changes to attract new users while maintaining the elements that people like best about the platform?

There's no one single development that changes everything, but Katie's appointment changed our perception of what a bank board chair could look like, and this will change people's notions about cabinet in a similar way.

To create a social movement, you need to get people talking about — and willing to accept — the need for change.

So on the days when it seems really too hard for me to keep going I think about all of the people whose lives have been changed by the work.

All of a sudden, people aren't talking about incremental change any more.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

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With the latter, you're prone to agree that «everyone is a certain kind of person and there is not much they can really change about that.»

But the use of this story is anything but: «One of the great things about the catalyst story is it's a great way to help your people understand some of the change you want to surface at your company,» Gittins said.

A study in the Journal of Health Psychology found that people who exercised felt better about their bodies even when they saw no physical changes:

Finally, be clear and specific about how this change affects people's roles and responsibilities.

Well, it just so happens people are starting to talk about it — and it's exposing a yawning gap between two worldviews affecting the way the world responds to the climate change challenge — not least within the energy industry itself.

We didn't tell anyone outside the senior executive team about the change, but people saw me stepping away and Josh taking more responsibility; he would lead our planning sessions, which I used to lead, for instance.

Robert Kiyosaki (www.richdad.com), author of the Rich Dad series of books, is an investor, entrepreneur and educator whose perspectives have changed the way people think about money and investing.

People get very vested in the decision, and when things start to get hard about the decision we've made, we come back to that vote — if we want to change the vote, we can change the vote, but this was how we voted.»

Particularly as the new year looms, people are thinking about what they'd like to do differently as the calendar year changes over.

Seeing fellow entrepreneurs throw themselves wholeheartedly into such good causes gives me hope that people's attitudes about the social responsibilities of business really are changing.

Though he couldn't talk about any further safety features or policy changes that might be in the works, Khazzam said that «people should expect more from us on this front.»

He talks about accountability and support structures, about how we need to speak to people, our friends or co-workers, and let them know about the changes we're trying to make.

He said people would wait outside YouTube's offices to speak with employees about changes to the homepage or algorithm that was affecting them.

«There's already a lot of people thinking about the possibilities of how this could change the way cheese is made,» says Dutton.

2016, in his words, will be the year people start implementing the tactical changes they've been talking about for years, while doubling down on existing mar - tech partnerships.

Grist's Meteorologist, Eric Holthaus, in «Stop scaring people about climate change.

People have made a big deal about the idea of «binge - watching» as the embodiment of the changing way we consume media.

And, if you think about the children in that house and how the length and depth of that recession really impacted people, I think you have an entire generation with permanently changed spending habits.»

When people ask about tests, they're usually thinking of A / B - style tests, looking for the low hanging fruit like «I changed the button color to a slightly lighter shade of blue and conversions increased 4,576,435 %.»

The downside: New companies will have to answer questions about their efficacy and be able to change consumer behavior, especially if they are introducing new methods of health care that take consumers away from in - person treatment, according to First Round Capital partner Phineas Barnes.

Things change, and when they do, that person may no longer think about committing suicide.

As a person who has dedicated over 20 years of my professional life in the pursuit of assisting clients in setting direction and driving change, I think that I've seen just about all there is to see when it comes to business and cultural transformation.

Finally, Cuban said the outcome of the election ultimately will be all about the economy: «There's so much uncertainty with markets, there's so much uncertainty with international finance, that people could start feeling the effects personally and that could change what they're focused on,» he said.

In the 31 years since the Walkman was introduced, it has sold about 220 million units and changed the way people interact with their music — it became such an important part of popular culture that it even earned a spot in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986.

«I don't think people who use this are seriously thinking about the implications of LinkedIn seeing and changing their email,» Richard Bejtlichs, the chief research officer at computer security company Mandiant, told The New York Times.