Not exact matches
At some point each
of these companies — Wistia, Southwest, Patagonia — learned to stop thinking
about themselves and started caring
about the
problems that their customers and the
world around them are facing.
Porcini spoke at the
World Innovation Forum in New York today
about the evolution
of «design thinking,» a form
of creative
problem solving.
From the boardroom to the company cafeteria, people are talking
about doing a better job
of addressing the
world's social
problems.
That's because the
problems of inequality that have plagued the developed
world are
about to move to developing countries.
She spoke
about the
problem of perpetuated gender stereotypes at the
World Economic Forum this week.
The denizens
of Silicon Valley frequently come across like wide - eye college freshmen thinking
about the
world's
problems for the first time, impatient to fix them, indignant that nobody has yet.
But on the day
of his telephone interview, he is more concerned that a leak in a pipe is knocking the group off its aggressive schedule than he is
about the wider ramifications
of solving the
world's energy
problems.
This kind
of scientific evangelism
about solving the
world's
problems may sound interesting but perhaps outside serious consideration.
Here's how some
of the
world's smartest people think
about problems and how you can learn to overcome them.
«What your memory is really for is giving you information
about what to expect in the
world and how to solve
problems in those situations,» says Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist and author
of Smart Thinking (Perigee Trade, 2012).
Much
of the
problem, Miller explained, is that Americans are already shouldering more than their fair share
of pharmaceutical companies» costs: While the U.S, accounts for only 4.6 %
of the total
world population, it makes up
about 40 %
of the
world's drug spending, and the bulk
of pharma companies» profits, he said.
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The investigation represents a significant ratcheting up
of problems for the
world's most valuable startup, which already is dealing with an internal probe
about a sexist work environment and a lawsuit from Waymo over allegedly stolen self - driving car technology.
The best way to explain how it's produced is to think
about it as a network
of computers around the
world solving mathematical
problems via a piece
of software.
This book will give you dozens
of new and fresh green ideas
about how to not only market your business responsibility, but break new ground in solving the
world's most pressing
problems — AND beat the pants off your competitors.
«But putting a merchant - branded «one - click» button on their site doesn't solve their online
problems,» adding that merchants then have to worry
about acquiring users, putting new fraud controls into place and managing authentication at the same level
of excellence as the biggest commerce players in the
world.
One would hardly realize that the
problem facing U.S. industrial employment is that wage earners must earn enough to pay for the most expensive housing in the
world (the FDIC is trying to limit mortgages to absorb just 32 per cent
of the borrower's budget), the most expensive medical care and Social Security in the
world (12.4 per cent FICA withholding), high personal debt levels owed to banks and rapacious credit - card companies (
about 15 per cent) and a tax shift off property and the higher wealth brackets onto labor income and consumer goods (another 15 per cent or so).
The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking
of churches and discussion
about a common calendar; but they also include
problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts
of fasting and, in particular, regulations
of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious
world.
With
about 120,000 U.S. and NATO - led troops still battling al Qaeda and its allies in the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement, Petraeus warned that burning Qurans «is precisely the kind
of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant
problems - not just here, but everywhere in the
world we are engaged with the Islamic community.»
Georgetown University should be worring
about the amount
of time its students are spending having S ex, not trashing Limbaugh for bringing this obvious widespread
problem to the attention
of the
world.
How
about you worry
about the
problems in your own corner
of the
world before you try to make ones up here?
That is the equivalent
of anti-Semitic comments
about Jews when they are called miserly or when they are blamed for all the
world problems.
Reviewing a book titled The Son
of Man written by François Mauriac (a French Roman Catholic who wrote
about the
problems of good and evil in human nature and in the
world), Flannery O'Connor writes: He proposes in the place
of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic's «cramp....
A major figure in the conversations between Christians and Muslims talks
about the possibilities
of dialogue and the
problems that confront Islam in the modern
world.
It distributes literature, answers letters
of inquiry from all over the
world, and advises members
about group
problems.
And not just Jesus: A whole gospel in all
of its theological details — right down to debates
about baptism, the relationship
of law to grace, and the
problem of divine foreknowledge — is taught to the people
of the New
World centuries before Jesus was even born.
If we do not wish to speculate
about this other
world of which we can have no experience here, it is still important to recognize the religious dimension
of the
problem to which the doctrine
of immortality is an attempted answer.
A non-religious interpretation would call men to participate in the suffering
of God in his life
of the
world,» not in the first place thinking
about one's own needs,
problems, sins and fears, but allowing oneself to be caught up into the way
of Jesus Christ, into the messianic event, thus fulfilling Isa.
If you want to really help poor people around the
world, if you care
about mankind in general, solving the
problem of hunger, raising the wellfare
of all
of us that are not just the ultra rich, then you should go in the opposite direction
of supporting ANY republican candidate.
All that has been said
about the limits
of the Church's ministry in the concrete shaping
of the
world must not itself be regarded as a formula with the help
of which all
problems regarding criticism
of the Church can be solved.
For some Westerners, Buddhism offered welcome relief from concern
about the needs and
problems of the public
world and efforts to deal with them.
The biblical hope is not based on human ability to sort out the
problems of the
world and order its future, but it is based on God's future, a future which God is bringing
about in Jesus Christ.
When we can stop arguing
about which invisible giant in the sky is «real» and start concentrating on actual practical, tangible, rational
problems we can see and feel (and do something
about), maybe then the
world will stand a chance
of survival.
We are forced to conclude that a major reason that clergymen high on doctrinalism are so unlikely to preach
about the
problems of race, war and poverty is that they see such
problems as mundane in contrast to the joys
of the
world to come, and besides, they believe these social ills would take care
of themselves if enough men were brought to Christ.
Of course what we can justifiably claim to know about the world will depend on what the world is like; therefore, I agree that the problem of induction has metaphysical aspect
Of course what we can justifiably claim to know
about the
world will depend on what the
world is like; therefore, I agree that the
problem of induction has metaphysical aspect
of induction has metaphysical aspects.
Another opportunity for the non-believers to tell us
about how they know God does not exist and how religion is the cause
of all the
world's
problems.
The
problem is this: Neutrality is a theory
about freedom
of religion in a
world that does not and can not actually exist, whereas accommodationism, although a theory
about the real
world, is not really a theory
about freedom
of religion.
It is not
about hating others or scapegoating them for the
problems of the
world, but owning up to our own contribution to the
problems... whatever that might be.
Brian, Well I suppose I do have a fear
about what these fantasy beliefs can do to cause trouble all over the
world, as if we don't have enough with real
problems of political ills, poverty, diseases and natural disasters; but mostly I am repelled by so many, like eaglemt and the huge number
of others like him / her, who preach hell - fire and eternal torment for those who don't regard their unproven beliefs as reality.
The
problem with this,
of course, is that the more we understand
about our natural
world, the less room we leave for God.
The
problem is that
of language - games, in which mythological language is contradicted by scientific language
about the same
world.
The blog is
ABOUT belied in the modern
world and is
of great interest to those who consider the American evangelical community and certain other religious sects the source
of some serious modern
problems.
Visit people, talk to them, bring them together, have a meal, talk
about life, solve the
world's
problems, drink a glass
of wine, walk along the road, fish, collect friends around you, share common sense advice, solve the odd predicament.
the gov «ts
of this
world are not solving the
problems but losing the battles and the real war is
about to begin.
The third
problem is then obvious: somewhere
about this time, if not indeed before his self - consciousness, man was confronted with the issue
of the relations between the two entities, the
world and himself.
There the rich and the learned ones exchange ideas and learn
about one another's country, life, and people; they learn
of the needs in various parts
of the Muslim
world; they discover their friends and foes; and they are able to cooperate to solve their
problems.
Process theism, by relinquishing the claim that God could completely control the
world in order to overcome the
problem of present evil, can not have this traditional assurance
about the future.
World citizenship can be widely extended among all people through the application of the principles of mental health... the problem of world citizenship in relation to human survival needs to be formulated afresh in the light of new knowledge about aggressiveness in man, group tensions and resentments, race prejudices and nationalist sentiments and stereot
World citizenship can be widely extended among all people through the application
of the principles
of mental health... the
problem of world citizenship in relation to human survival needs to be formulated afresh in the light of new knowledge about aggressiveness in man, group tensions and resentments, race prejudices and nationalist sentiments and stereot
world citizenship in relation to human survival needs to be formulated afresh in the light
of new knowledge
about aggressiveness in man, group tensions and resentments, race prejudices and nationalist sentiments and stereotypes.
Religion can be easygoing, apathetic
about the
world's need, a kind
of modern monasticism that retreats from the challenging
problems of society and seeks only peace
of mind.
One
problem is that, among academics in what Peter Berger calls the global faculty club, assumptions
about secularisation are driven by the intellectual history
of ideas, with slight attention being paid to what persists in being the real
world.