Sentences with phrase «at the lessons of»

But look at the lesson of those who took such a view in the 1960s and opposed Lords reform proposals then; the next 50 years showed how wrong that decision was.

From blue rinses to ordinary cider, Anoosh Chakelian looks at the lessons of today's budget statement

Not exact matches

For the intrepid and diehard curious, the dispute at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is an extraordinary lesson in the complexity of academic science.

Recently, McRaven gave a speech at West Point about the top lessons of his 36 - year military career.

Having briefly learned a very hard lesson about the perils of over-zealous lending, big banks are once again spinning out subprime mortgages at a furious pace.

McRaven was the speaker at the University of Texas at Austin, and he focused on the 10 most important lessons that stuck with him as a result of getting through the notoriously difficult SEAL training program.

What lessons did you learn about innovation when you interviewed the people at Disney Animation regarding the creation of the hit animated film Frozen?

«What this software does is really adapt to put the right lesson in front of each kid at their level.

A single half - hour session costs $ 60, but almost everyone buys a package of lessons — five at $ 45 per session or 15 at $ 40 per session.

Or will they forget the lessons of the past and jump at whatever bones they are thrown by Trump's handlers, pander to his supporters, and hope for that front - row seat?

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

And while they highlight celebrity endorsements for big companies (with the exception of Rebecca Minkoff, who was making clothes out of her studio apartment at the time), the good business lessons learned from setting up and cashing in on such high - vis endorsement deals can easily be applied to small companies.

«In this masterful study of urban warfare, DiMarco explains what it takes to seize and hold a city literally block by block and provides lessons for today's tacticians that they neglect at their own peril.»

After watching 17 of their classmates and teachers be shot dead in just minutes, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas — and other schools around the country — taught us all a lesson in leadership.

This course from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is a five - week lesson that shows you how to correctly build an operation that is both stable and scalable.

«I think we can see... the effect of lessons they learned from the first Abe administration, which gave up mid-stream,» said Tetsuro Fukuyama, an upper house lawmaker whose Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ousted Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 2009, only to be crushed themselves at the polls in December.

And while the lesson here is at times a bit, er, vivid, it's pretty sensible: either be happy or don't, and never do something now just for the promise of some ambiguous payoff later.

That's been a huge lesson for our team as we move from being a founder - led organization to one that isn't, but still needs to keep our values at the heart of everything we do.»

Classrooms at Disselboom primary school are equipped with SchoolVision, a lighting system developed by Philips that changes the atmosphere and ambience of a classroom depending on the type of lesson being taught.

At least that seems to be the lesson of the employment contract of Valeant Pharmaceuticals» new CEO, Joseph Papa.

He frequently steps up to podium mics to make sure college students get an earful of the types of lessons he didn't get as a managerial economics major at the University of California, Davis.

Here are five «philosophies» we try to live by (and have sometimes failed at) and some of the lessons that might be of interest to others growing a team:

At the end of the lessons, you will understand the concept, various scenarios and types of Business analytics.

It's not clear, however, that the company learned its lesson: After eliminating the Extra Value Menu last year, it launched the Dollar Menu & More, which is another hodgepodge of offerings McDonald's (at least) considers good deals.

John Payne, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, said the financial decisions being revealed in the CNBC Millionaire Survey reflect a basic behavioral finance lesson he has been drumming into the heads of business students for years.

Last week, at an on - stage event in Lisbon, Ohanian shrugged off a comparison of Reddit's upvoting mechanism to Twitter's hearts, which let a user denote a tweet is a «favorite,» saying: «We're not going to take too many lessons from Twitter,» he dismissed.

The story serves as a lesson on expectation to leadership and employees at any level of any business.

Then they can look at your track record from the last number of years and see it's all worked out, and when you have made a mistake, you've owned up to it, and that there were lessons learned.

I can honestly say that I have used at least one of these lessons every day that I've been employed since earning the degree.

At a screening event of the premiere in New York City Tuesday, Herjavec touched on some of the most important lessons small businesses can glean from the series.

Admittedly, Ries and Trout offer some good lessons, but these are «rules of thumb» at best.

At the end of each training lesson, ask new employees to complete a short quiz for which they must type in their answers.

At home in Magog, Bégin supplied his engineers, technicians and machinists with a constantly renewed menu of skills training opportunities to better equip them for the quickly evolving market, including language lessons.

So, too, have its recent attempts at recovery, which are not only more inspiring but also provide valuable lessons even for those of us who are not trying to resuscitate an entire metropolitan area.

The lessons Fidelity (fnfv) is learning could give it a valuable advantage at a time when other big financial institutions are dipping their toes into the world of cryptocurrencies, which are together worth well over $ 100 billion today.

I don't think we could look at us and Amazon, Apple and Facebook and say there is a lessoning of competition.

Many successful professionals, including myself, owe at least some of their success to lessons they've learned from their fathers.

For example, in the late 80s when most TV sitcoms followed the same formula of hugging and learning a lesson at the end of the episode, Larry David created Seinfeld, a show with famously self - centered characters.

If your goal with your business is to create a nice stable lifestyle company that you can control and run for the rest of your career - you're fine and this lesson isn't aimed at you.

We're all familiar with the cliche that money can not buy happiness, but I'm convinced that almost everybody has to learn that lesson the hard way because let's face it; the idea of having enough money to throw at your problems until they're solved is a seductive impulse.

Here are some of their lessons and a look at their strategy the second time around.

Some of the best entrepreneurship lessons can be taught at a poker table.

In the talk, which lasts a little over an hour, Jobs shares a number of stories from his time at Apple and NeXT (the startup he founded after leaving Apple), along with the lessons learned through both good times and bad.

At Inc.'s iCONIC conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the founders of three successful startups — EventBrite, Umami, and American Giant — together offered three vital lessons on what it takes to cultivate a thriving company.

The lesson is that you can save yourself stress down the road by reiterating instructions in a couple of different forms at the beginning of a project.

Sandy Carter, a tech veteran and a founding board member of WITI (Women in Technology International), learned a valuable lesson when one of her mentors pointed out that she always ate lunch at her desk, missing out on valuable opportunities to build relationships and advance her career.

Kylie Jenner, at a very young age, is getting a harsh business lesson that some of us take years, even decades, to learn.

What's the lesson for those of us who follow sports, have some lofty ambitions for a startup, or just want to make it through the week at our current job?

At the end, rather than pitching their business plans to venture capitalists in a «demo day» — the standard model of startup incubators — the teams made «lessons learned» presentations, during which they explain how the customer feedback helped them shape their plans.

To help you mind your business — and, by extension, your bottom line — in good time, the folks at Make It Cheaper, a service that helps small and medium - sized businesses negotiate cheaper rates on insurance, broadband and electricity, have rounded up seven key efficiency lessons from a host of entrepreneurs.