But labels
are useful to the degree they define intrinsic attributes.
However, I do think they provide psychological support to those that falsely believe they are possessed and, as such,
are useful to those people.
Note that the Dalai Lama does not say that we ought to respect animals because
they are useful to us, or because they are concoctions of our egos, or because they are extensions of our bodies.
The experiments done on humans DID yeild results that were and
are useful to the scientific and medical communities.
As with any such collection, pick the parts that
are useful to you and be happy.
It's a quick, fun read, and it has some good takeaways to think about regarding corporate management practices, market efficiency (or lack thereof), and individual investor behavior — all things that I think
are useful to keep in mind as an investor in the stock market.
According to Gann
they are useful to determine potential resistance and reversal points.
I hope that these weekly comments
are useful to that end.
A crop of non-GAAP financial metrics
are useful to understand why normal accounting doesn't do a great job at showing off future growth, and profits, of companies that spend heavily to acquire customers, and then earn revenues off that customer in regular intervals for the future.
In this situation, inventory loans
are useful to allow business owners to purchase large quantities of items.
You can keep customers up to date and engaged with your business by sending out product specials, company news, or articles that
are useful to your audience.
Management believes that these metrics reflect the organic, core operating performance of the company, and therefore
are useful to analysts and investors in providing supplemental information that helps them understand, model and forecast the evolution of our operating business.
We believe the adjustments
are useful to investors as an additional means to reflect cost of revenues and gross margin trends of our business.
We believe that these non-GAAP measures
are useful to investors in assessing our operating performance, as it provides them with the same tools that management uses to evaluate our performance and is responsive to questions we receive from both investors and analysts.
Ideally, you'll pre-identify your inner circle (perhaps with your attorney, banker, accountant, bookkeeper, financial advisor) and then be able to choose which, if any, of the other inputs
are useful to you.
Management believes that these measures, when presented in conjunction with the comparable GAAP measures,
are useful to both management and its investors in analyzing the company's ongoing business and operating performance.
It has a treasure - trove of mapping data from about 12 billion check - ins that
are useful to brands, according to Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck.
He later reversed his opinion once he determined the core technology would
be useful to businesses and ordinary consumers.
So, I thought it would
be useful to try to briefly outline the three very distinct legs of the strategic stool and how each element enhances and extends Amazon's position in the marketplace.
Meteorologists know a lot more about the weather than we do, so it's useful to hear what they have to say.
I have found that one of the best uses of social media is to
be useful to your followers by giving them content that they enjoy seeing in their social media feeds.
Spam filters can
be useful to set up on staff email accounts, so that dodgy emails will be automatically filtered to a junk account and deleted.
It is useful to help set up paragraphs, headers, and default fonts so that a user can always read the text regardless of whether or not they have the font installed on their own personal computer.
They all bring expertise that will
be useful to the company as it plots its long - term strategy.
For small businesses in small markets, it's useful to know where multiple positions can be combined into a single role.
Executive coaching is the best way to enable a person to meliorate his interpersonal skills, cross over his self - imposed limitations, coordinate with corporate goals, use feedback as a necessary tool, better the decision - making skills, equalize work and life priorities, create an environment which
is useful to the company, etc..
To avoid being surprised by criticism — and boost your ability to counter it — it's useful to track your work highs and lows through the year.
Before answering these questions it's useful to remember that the dollar / yen breakout above 79 in October 2012 was part of a long term fan reversal pattern.
It's useful to do some more framing before launching into questions (something along the lines of, «I'm going to ask you a few questions so that I can try and help you find what you're most interested in, if that's alright?»).
It's useful to think about what your business isn't.
Such a plan outlines who would
be useful to see, what sessions to attend, and a daily schedule detailing the hours on the show floor, in classes, and in meetings.
Non-GAAP financial information is not meant as a substitute for GAAP results, but is included because management believes such information
is useful to our investors for informational and comparative purposes.
Ding and Gao's familiarity with Macau would have
been useful to North Korean hackers, says Steve Vickers, a former head of the Hong Kong Police Force's Criminal Intelligence Bureau who now runs an eponymous risk consulting company.
The question then becomes for the people who add value and try to
be useful to authors and readers — and that includes publishers and booksellers — how do you evolve being useful in a digital world?
It's also worth noting that, while it's never a good idea to blame innocent people, it can
be useful to add a little extra credit when you feel it is deserved, to balance your biases.
It's useful to consider that the startup environment is supported by Israeli and international investors, many of whom are members of the Jewish diaspora around the world who want to support both the startups but also pour money into the country's stream of commerce.
If you have a mix of these accounts, it will
be useful to start by creating sales plans for your most valuable accounts and then working on the smaller ones later.
Without further ado, here are the most important benefits of blockchain that may prove to
be useful to businesses in different industries:
Start with this instead: Ask how the tool will
be useful to your company and your team.
The «Inverted Pyramid» is a style used by journalists, but it can also
be useful to emails: start off with the most relevant information, then add in important details, and finish up with any last thoughts that you want to include.
In relationships with influencers, consider how to
be useful to them: What are you proposing beyond requesting that they talk about your company?
Depending on your product, it might
be useful to host a trunk show at a local shopping center with high foot traffic.
This tip won't
be useful to most of y» all, but you can rotate your screen by simultaneously pressing Ctrl + Alt + D and any of the arrow buttons.
If certain things from the list don't come up during the conversation, it might
be useful to think about how you can up your personal standards in those areas.
The researchers acknowledged their findings are limited by their small sample size, and that it would have
been useful to measure stress and anxiety to see how this was affecting the results.
However, if repressed gay impulses are a common motivator for homophobic attitudes, this would
be useful to know from the perspective of combating homophobia, and for helping such people come to terms with their own sexuality.
So changing either how we utilize it or modifying the culture so we're not as dependent on it would
be useful to me.
«Depending on the size of your company and training budget, it may
be useful to have an HR or management consulting team work with your executives and staff,» Taylor says.
Here are some of the lessons that I learned that might
be useful to anyone running a business or looking to start one:
And when it doesn't matter if it fails it has a better chance to succeed because you're just trying to
be useful to other people, and money is a side effect of that.