Sentences with phrase «at changing a person»

So a good CEO is really great at convincing other people to get on board, even at changing people's opinions.»

So a good CEO is really great at convincing other people to get on board, even at changing people's opinions,» writes Scoble, who adds «a great CEO is clear, crisp, concise.

I heard presentations last week at the University of Wisconsin about how media are good at drawing attention to problems but ineffective at changing people's viewpoints or behavior.

These included short, structured and present - focused therapy aimed at changing a person's distorted thinking.

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.

On a broader level, he will be seen as just one of many who stood at the forefront of a broad cultural change, one that eventually affected the health and lives of millions of people.

At different times, fewer people want to eat there, so they change their price to respond to that.

«People need to look at themselves, and see what they can change and what they should change [according to what feels] comfortable for them,» says Patzer.

«It will change how our society can operate, but at the same time, in harnessing this technology people might want to leverage that for their own gain,» he said.

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

Organizational change may start at the top, but it involves every person on the team.

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.

But if you invest with the idea that rates will never rise again, or at least not for decades, then a lot of the tried - and - true investing rules that people have been following suddenly change.

Christoper Spring, curator of the African galleries at the British Museum, explains why he hopes his exhibition will change people's perception of African art and show the diversity present in the continent.

People avoid making the tough decisions because they know the CEO is going to step in at the last minute and change everything anyways.

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

You'd think that even in these crazy times of radical change most people would have learned to stick with what has worked for them — at least until it doesn't work any longer — and also to hang on to the advisors, the tools and the techniques that got them to where they are.

If you're setting individualized goals, practitioners and experts agree that each employee's goals should change at least once a year — if only to stay ahead of people who outsmart the system.

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.

«And at the heart of these arrangements, there should be a clear double lock: A guarantee that there will be a period of implementation giving businesses and people alike the certainty that they will be able to prepare for the change; and a guarantee that this implementation period will be time - limited, giving everyone the certainty that this will not go on for ever,» the prime minister stated.

According to studies conducted by Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University, «people who frequently played video games were more likely to report lucid dreams, observer dreams where they viewed themselves from outside their bodies, and dream control that allowed people to actively influence or change their dream worlds — qualities suggestive of watching or controlling the action of a video - game character.»

The relationship between China and the U.S. has always been tense when it comes to trade and this is unlikely to change, a member of the monetary policy committee at the People's Bank of China told CNBC Friday.

«They got married, they had a child, they separated... People need to really be looking at more the way their life has changed, and how that's going to affect their taxes.»

The administration's directive enraged conservatives who say federal civil rights protections pertains to a person's gender assigned at birth, not someone's changing gender identity.

«When I was able to make that change, I went from a salary of zero, which was really disheartening, to being able to bring in a salary of six figures for myself,» says Burke, whose company posted annual revenue of $ 1.1 million and employed 15 people at its height in 2010 before being acquired by competitor Booksfree.com.

Smart people know that we achieve our best life when we take time to look honestly at who we are and where we are and then make a change.

In my NYT bestselling book, Killing Sacred Cows, I warn people of the 15 major problems of the 401 (k), including: you're not the owner but only the beneficiary of your 401 (k), the government can change the rules at any time, you can't get to the money until 59 1/2, and the fees are typically much higher than most investments out there because you've added complexity and layers of administration and legal fees.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

Corporations prefer to be seen as apolitical creatures — governments change, and customers come in all stripes — but at this highly polarized and media - socialized moment, it's become mighty hard not to upset at least a few people.

People become angry not as the result of outside events or the actions of other people, but because they're frustrated at their own inability to change themselves and their emotional People become angry not as the result of outside events or the actions of other people, but because they're frustrated at their own inability to change themselves and their emotional people, but because they're frustrated at their own inability to change themselves and their emotional state.

«Gritty people can look at a situation, ignore 90 percent of things they can't change and instead focus on the 10 percent they can,» wrote De Sena.

«Social entrepreneurs are people who look at society and see the big problems and see innovative solutions that are permanent and can change the fabric of society,» says Dr. Lyndon Haviland, interim CEO for Darkness to Light, a non-profit organization tasked with preventing the sexual abuse of children.

«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.

Still, passengers and regulators would have to become comfortable with the idea of nobody sitting in the cockpit, which would be a dramatic change from the current rules for much of the world, which require at least two people in the cockpit at all times.

«The project is about changing the world for people who are not well - served by transportation today,» Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, said Tuesday at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, according to an article by Re / code, the technology news site that hosted the event.

The proposed changes will also look to address the practice of «trademark squatting,» where people misuse the system by hanging onto a trademark they have no intention of using themselves, such as an internet domain name, to sell it at a later date for profit.

Often people think that the only way that things will improve at the office is if something external changes.

However, RBC saw an uptick in mortgage demand at the end of calendar 2017 as people scrambled to get loans before the changes took effect, he noted.

Even as Apple got people used to the idea of having a supercomputer in their pocket, it significantly changed how businesses interact with consumers around the world, says Brian Blau, research director for consumer technology and markets at research firm Gartner.

Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»

The plan, outlined in a document titled «A Vision for Change», aims to ensure all transgender people in Britain can live full authentic lives at home, at work and in public, free from discrimination or abuse.

«That is why we have committed to reviewing the Gender Recognition Act to look at ways of streamlining and demedicalising the process for changing a person's legal gender, as well as reviewing gender markers in official documents.

If you're like most people the answer is, you sit at your desk and daydream about a big change — that artisanal food business you've always wanted to start, the book you could write, that round - the - world trip haunting your bucket list, or the career - transforming master's degree you really should pursue.

Changes to superannuation policy played a role in the significantly reduced majority for the Turnbull government at the July 2 election, but if you look a little deeper you find something far more interesting — the government can't afford its retirement policies, and some retired people can't afford to live.

«Great people focused on culture, inspiring company with constant change and innovation keeping you busy and engaged at all times.

«Change in large organizations, particularly ones that are profit maximizers... doesn't come until people have exhausted all other options,» Coady said in a 2003 speech, 10 years after the Clayoquot confrontation (and while she was working at the World Wildlife Fund).

3) It's worth at least contemplating what effect this change will have on people at Gravity who were already at the $ 70k mark.

Not only should you change your passwords at least every 90 days, you should never share password information with anyone (such as a spouse) by email or text, only in person or over the phone.

«We want to fundamentally change the way people receive their drinking water,» says Friesen, who also teaches at Arizona State University.

«It's going to dramatically change the way we work,» says Ryan Hammond, head of people analytics at HiQ Labs, which uses external data from multiple sources to predict which employees are most likely to be poached.