Sentences with phrase «about role models»

I'd like to read more about role models, and see simple achievable changes highlihgted — they are, while not news, at least media - worthy.

I can reasonably see questions about role models in Robert Melee's plastic fashion show, his near - naked white figures posed against poplar blinds.

Todd talks about his role models in thrillers (i.e. Stephen King and Thomas Harris) who have been one of his biggest influences to write about the things that can scare himself.

It's natural for me to think about role models — those teachers who really made a difference in my life.

Aware that building the future of all our students takes place in and out of the classroom, in addition to the Interview Day initiative, we have implemented incentive and reward schemes, carry out a lot of work in assemblies and talk regularly about role models that the students can relate to.

Suffragette director Sarah Gavron talks about role models.

Humans aren't the only ones who are picky about the role models they emulate.

«I started thinking about role models from my personal experience,» Serra said.

Students wrote essays about their role models, who were invited to eat breakfast with the student essayists; one student from each classroom was invited to read their essay aloud.

But when asked about role models, Formico said that they go far beyond just Kerri.

Wade said that when he sits down with his kids to talk about role models, «I will tell them to go look up James Shaw Jr..»

«This ain't a song about bottles in the club / This is about a role model filled with love.

The number one thing is to think about your role modeling as a parent.

This raises important issues about role modelling and the capacity of people to have lifestyles that lead to a medical degree.

Not exact matches

Mattel's decision to make the dolls is based on a global survey of 8,000 mothers it conducted in which 86 % of respondents said they were worried about the kind of role models that their daughters were exposed to.

Great books keep us informed about our world, introduce us to inspiring role models, and teach us important concepts we can apply in life and business.

Instead, make it a story about the culture of innovation and the many people who have sustained it; giving others role models and the license to have something to strive for.

One of the questions I get often is about being a role model, and managing your personal brand.

Another great trait I remember about many of my role models was their humility.

One of the amazing things about lateral learning is that you can often learn much more from your peers, role models, and even competitors than you can from any teacher, class, book, or lecture.

The kingpin of a fictional drug enterprise may not be your typical business role model, but Breaking Bad's Walter White can teach you a thing or two about what it takes to build an empire, including when not to delegate important tasks.

The person you choose as a role model — and it is a choice — often says more about you than about the person you choose.

And even though we are all the sum of our parts, that answer tells me just about everything I need to know about Dale Earnhart Jr., the same way the person you choose as a role model could tell you just about everything you need to know — about yourself.

As a youth soccer player, I think I had really good coaches, really good role models that taught me a lot about professionalism and taking care of myself and I feel like I did that early on.

We could also talk about a lack of support networks for women in business, fewer role models, fewer mentors, and so on.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

Her charismatic appearance on stage not only gave the dad - joke peppered event a little more oomph, but it also underscored a bigger conversation we've been having in the tech industry about diversity, strong role models and which companies have been taking a leadership position in that area.

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In his book Predictable Revenue, author Aaron Ross talks about how forward - thinking sales companies like Salesforce.com moved to a specialized sales role model of selling (for example, Sales Development Representative (SDRs), Business Development Manager, Customer Success Managers, etc.).

We regularly survey employees about their managers, and then use that information to publicly recognize the best managers and enlist them as teachers and role models for the next year.

«When I am sitting on a panel, I always talk about finding mentors and role models, and about building your network.

From a lack of visible mentors and role models to underrepresentation in startup communities and pontification about including more women in tech, without much action, the challenges that women face in the tech field are well - known.

The point about not being able to hold up a black as a role model for white children is, we think, particularly poignant.

As they stand, the Model Rules are certainly capacious enough to permit the kind of intelligent flexibility about roles that Jacobs admires and that generalist lawyers seem once to have possessed.

So when these figures fall — in the most final way possible — the tremors of sadness aren't just about the loss of a favourite performer, but the failure of a role model.

He pointed out that «it isn't always easy today to speak about fatherhood and, not having adequate role models, it even becomes problematic to imagine God as a father.»

Of course, we pay lip service to the concept, complaining about how few positive Christian role models there are on TV or in the media.

We need to think about new models of organization which are not so bishop or rector centered and which support and enhance the clergy role as spiritual leaders within the Church and which call all the members to a new sense of discipleship.

The post is about the perfect role model for us fathers.

We worry about the world views espoused in music and literature, and displayed by the flawed role models who fill our newspapers.

I grew up from a broken home and never had a mother / father role model to show me about marriage.

With all the murders and wife - beaters in the NFL, it's nice to have a good Christian role model for a change, and you want him to just shut up about his faith in Jesus?!

The children and young people of every congregation need adults who are able to help them think critically about life values to be their teachers, leaders, and role models.

We have social - psychological theories about meaning and belonging that help us understand what is happening in the first instance, demographic models for the second case, and studies of congregations and leadership roles for the third.

But I will propose instead that, if the process model is given priority, then nature, man and God can all be coherently represented; the other models would then serve secondary roles in thinking about particular interactions within the more inclusive process model.

It influences everything about their personalities — their anxiety levels, choice of defenses against anxiety, perceptions of reality, models of success and failure, their roles, self - images, conflict patterns, values and life goals.

In the late 8th century Mary Wollstonecraft perceived that raising questions about the role of women in society raised the issue of the nature of structural relationships as a whole and the destructiveness of authoritarian models of social order.

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I critique the ideas of John Piper, as he should expect and invite, because he represents a role model among Christians, including men, because I think his ideas about women are damaging.

For those of you who don't believe in Christ, or God for that matter, then you obviously don't care about this other than your own objective to be a good person (Which I believe Christ is the perfect role model).