Sentences with phrase «about listening to any of»

The day you non-believers understand what the division of church and state is, is the day any Christian will think about listening to any of you.

Not exact matches

The most effective salespeople, for instance, have been shown to only talk about 30 percent of the time — the rest is spent listening.

As for the Republican leadership, Walker said, «I would hope they come to us and begin to talk about solutions from here and what kind of energy there would be to ask him to say, «Listen, if you can't fulfill this role that you accepted, then maybe we need to look a different direction.»»

«If we get complaints about a manager, that manager has to go to each member of his team and say, «Listen, I can't stay here unless I do a better job of being your manager, so what am I doing wrong?»»

The idea behind the campaign is to engage and work with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. — as well as those in other states — to get them to start listening to small business owners, and do something about reversing this tide of increasing regulations.

«The vast majority of people still like to be told what to listen to,» says Mark Mulligan, a media and technology analyst and managing director of Midia Research in the U.K. (Indeed, that Nielsen survey revealed 61 % of Americans still find out about new music through traditional and satellite radio.)

And in the long run, the idea that a forced separation of cultures — with strict rules about who can wear what, or eat or listen to what — would be good for minorities is one that would backfire.

I've done my fair share of listening to managers (many of whom are former clients) complain about their employees and losing good people, which adversely affects their ability to perform well.

You can automate the surveying and processing of employee dislikes, but the human touch — listening, empathizing, reacting — is usually required to effect real change, once employees tell you the truth about what's bugging them.

«I've heard various rules about how many bullets per slide and how many words per bullet and I don't listen to any of it,» says Sigel.

Twenty - two percent of parents chose not to share their knowledge because they felt they didn't know enough about their child's career, while the same percentage said they didn't feel their child would listen.

It's about a flexibility of mind and a willingness to listen to your heart and trust your gut.

In either case, they didn't have time to listen to every vendor regale them about the quality of its products, Narodick learned.

Today, hundreds of millions — if not billions — of people use the radio to keep informed about goings - on in the world, listen to music, and be entertained.

But what about the hours you're willing to take out of your schedule to listen or help out?

He thought about this long and hard, and then he quietly said, «this is not a big idea, or flash, or tech, but the thing I have learned the hard way is the importance of learning to listen to your instinct.

As part of our pre-course paperwork, we'd completed a 360 - degree evaluation, wherein we'd rated ourselves in response to questions about habits and performance, about our time management, our self - awareness and trustworthiness, our ability to accept criticism, our ability to listen, and dozens more items.

About 60 percent of Americans listened to over-the-air radio while driving as of a few years ago, according to an industry study, a number that has been falling.

When asked about his longer - term strategy for Hitachi, the chief executive said: «Listen to all of the people's opinions, not only internal but also external opinions [and] imagine [how things will be like] five years later.

When you actually listen to what they have to say and give their concerns appropriate consideration (especially when they're suggesting a new way of doing things), they'll leave each meeting feeling like you value their contributions and care about their well - being.

A definite key to successful retention is the idea that all of the employees need to feel cared about and listened to by the company's senior management and especially by the CEO.

When leaders stop and listen to team members about the health of their team's culture, leaders can refine their behaviors, guide team practices, and enable aligned performance and sanity in their business.

Simply put, when a fellow marketer who helped grow a company to a valuation of over $ 1 Billion wants to talk about the future of technology, I listen... and I take really good notes.

By having an in - depth conversation with prospects about what they're trying to achieve and really listening to their goals, you can set value - based prices that are higher for you and also deliver more for the client, ideally, offering clients a menu of options to help them reach their objectives.

«Hit predictor» is when Poleman's team gets a sample of listeners and has them listen to a new song over and over again, at least 20 times in its entirety, and then asks them about it — «could you see this being a hit?»

I have mentored a few hundred app entrepreneurs and it pains me to listen to them talk about their experience living through some of the advice they received over the years.

Over 40 years of launching new products and services, we have striven to listen very carefully to what our customers think they want and then set about giving them something that is often very different, but always a little better.

According to some recent research, about 12 % of SiriusXM users listen to Stern, which means he is probably worth as much as $ 250 million to the satellite broadcaster.

Then factor in the opportunity cost for what every person in the room could be achieving instead of listening to Biff from engineering talk about groundbreaking new advances in ball bearing technology.

Today, about 15 % of Americans listen to podcast at least once a month, according to Edison Research.

What I love about Ferriss's show is you feel like a fly on the wall listening to some of the greatest minds (think Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Robbins, Vince Vaughn) sharing some of their most amazing insights on business, productivity, and life hacks.

Back in 2011 Derek Ohly, currently a co-founder of Peach, approached Kraus with the concept after listening to his female friends complain about how horrible their bras were.

«Listen to your employees and actually follow through with the promise of caring about each one.

When a second group of participants listened to the recorded negotiation passages, and asked questions about how powerful they perceived the speakers to be, they were able to identify who was high - versus low - rank.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

According to Mental Floss» aggregation of archives, Nixon would rave about «Patton» to anyone who would listen and urge everyone to watch it.

And I learned about the wristband, and I decided, yeah, this isn't going to end too well, so I should proceed with a court case instead of trying to reason with the district because they were not listening at all.

Stop, listen and think about the nugget of truth that a clichà ¯  ¿  1/2 contains — and what that truth can mean to your sales.

Scientists can be passionate about their point of view, but they also listen to what everyone else is saying and that helps them gather the evidence.

Dahl was at a bar listening to friends complain about their pets in 1975 when he came up with the idea of a pet rock — the perfect, easy - to - care - for pet.

Effective communication isn't just about talking; leaders who master the art of listening authentically will have uncanny, X-Men-like ability to listen intuitively to the other person's story, asking questions, and searching conversations for depth, meaning and understanding with their needs in mind.

We like to joke about some of the problems with education today, but Millennials have a lot of education and there are a lot more opportunities for continuing education — through online courses in traditional schools, and MOOCs, and even just listening to podcasts regularly.

Instead of building displays designed to move merchandise quickly, with huge racks of records and no place to sit down, we brought in big, comfy cushions and built listening booths — it was a place where you could chat about music with your friends and share your favorites with them.

They are motivated by the desire to learn what it's like to live in another's shoes and they thrive on learning about others — some of their best ideas come from these conversations and really listening.

But every one of them, without exception, talks earnestly about his message: of rejecting mediocrity, of overcoming setbacks, of listening to and appreciating adults who try to help them.

«Not only was it the first time I listened to them about one of these deals,» he says sheepishly, «but it was the first time I even asked them.»

Developing and protecting the culture is one of the most sacred parts of the SEAL experience, but if you listen to a lot of conversation in the business world, «culture» isn't much more than a soft buzzword that gets put up on a PowerPoint slide once or twice a year ten minutes after you talk about the corporate mission statement or annual strategic initiatives.

«The thing we have to be careful about is we need to try and find the opinion of the middle as opposed to listening to the loud voices on the outside and that requires very careful scrutiny and listening with the facts at hand.»

The truth is, in our actual listening habits, most of us are very specific about what we want to listen to, but not by genre.

Whether you look at straight demographic statistics, listen to the testimony in the recent sexual harassment suit against storied VC firm Kleiner Perkins, or talk to female founders about their experiences fundraising, the picture you get of the industry's openness to women isn't the rosiest.