Sentences with phrase «by years of learning»

This spring, the project is rolling out an updated portfolio of resources, informed by years of learning from the field, that will extend its impact farther than ever before.

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As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

Daunted by the expense of a four - year program, students are focusing on learning the skills they need for the jobs they want.

With the series» last run of episodes beginning April 5, we've compiled the smartest strategies (and the most painful lessons) learned over the years by Don Draper and company.

The talks were delivered by the staff of DigitalMarketer, a company that spends all year putting its sales ideas into practice before spending three days telling other people what they've learned.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

I continue to learn every day (usually by making mistakes... but we'll get to that later), but here are five key things I've learned in five years of entrepreneurship.

«Our policies and procedures are informed by many years of experience and lessons we've learned along the way,» according to the blog.

Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universitieBy Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universitieby 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

«Over my six years in finance, I learned to approach my career as an individual sport, where I was judged by the size of my bonus and how quickly I was promoted.

Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

With family members involved, Eggen expects to exit in five years, by which time he will have passed on most of what he has learned over his decades - long career in the industry.

Presented by the Great Game of Business, the Gathering of Games is the largest open - book management conference of the year, in which hundreds attend to learn innovative best practices, introduce OBM to newcomers, invigorate current employees with new ideas, and network with fellow OBM practitioners.

You can avoid many of these mistakes by learning form these lessons we learned running the traffic we ran in the past year.

Let it be aspirational instead of bringing it down by trying to get players to do it when they're 15 years old and they're also learning other sports.

A day later, tech news site Recode reported that Eric Alexander, Uber's president of business in the Asia - Pacific region, was fired after it was learned that obtained the medical records of an Uber customer who was raped by her driver in India three years ago.

He had only just learned something was awry when, as an investor in three of Concrete's buildings, he had received proxy forms asking him to sign over his stakes to a company called Strategic Group in return for unsecured debentures, a kind of IOU not backed by real collateral, promising to pay him 6 % a year.

Eric Alexander, Uber's president of business in the Asia - Pacific region, was fired after it was learned he obtained the medical records of a 26 - year - old woman who said she was raped and assaulted by her driver in Delhi in 2014.

As we learned from Facebook's fMC marketing conference earlier this year there are a number of new marketing offerings, and they may seem disparate, but Facebook sees them as being connected together by a company's Facebook page.

«Last year's event was so well - received by members of our community that we decided to provide this learning opportunity once again,» USFSM Regional Chancellor Dr. Karen Holbrook said.

«With the international online learning market expected to reach $ 107 billion by the end of this financial year, there are numerous players that have already started filling in the gaps.

THERE»S MORE TO LEARN FROM FLINT «A job that was taken by a robot 30 years ago... is not coming back, no matter what the president of the United States says.»

By measuring out the sentiment of consumers» attitudes toward Amazon Prime Day, researchers were able to learn that 34 percent of people were not aware of the event last year, and 12 percent cited personalized promotional efforts as the key to luring them in.

A 236 - page compendium of insightful commentary and sound advice for the entrepreneur and small business owner With real world practicality, readers will learn how to significantly reduce their marketing costs and while increasing their profit margins by employing environmentally sound and ethically founded policies and practices; convert their vendors, customers, and competitors into a kind of auxiliary sales resource; successfully persuading business acquaintances to become joint - venture partners; utilizing social media, traditional media, and their own imagination to reduce advertising costs while employing alternative marketing practices The distilled and effective wisdom of two of the most successful yet frugal entrepreneurs who have combined their many years of experience and expertise in a single volume that should be considered mandatory reading strongly recommended.

Almost 10 years of commitment to self - mastery have passed by and I never take one day off without learning and growing in some way.

As newer technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning take precedence, nearly 98 % of Indian companies have innovation as part of their core agenda this year and are planning organisational design changes, according to a study by New York - headquartered HR consulting firm Mercer Global.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

A couple of years ago, an American academic by the name of James Bessen wrote a fascinating book called Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages and Wealth.

We've learned from last year's update that we can better detect different kinds of clickbait headlines by separately — rather than jointly — identifying signals that withhold or exaggerate information.

I've picked up quite a bit just by being around our CEO, Kyle, for the past few years — he's been in and out and up and down in startups, and has shared some of the hard lessons he learned along the way.

My first few years of law practice involved financial litigation, so by the time I learned about bitcoin, I had accumulated the perfect mix of interests and experience to get excited about the technology.

I've learned some hard investing lessons over the years including that there is a lot of conflicting information on investing and retirement available, and many potential advisers (but not all) are motivated by self - interest.

Ten years after the official start of the downturn, some entrepreneurs profiled by The Associated Press as the recession began say now that they are grateful but not gleeful; they have many painful memories and lessons learned.

The Forbes ranking of America's Top Wealth Advisors, developed by SHOOK Research, is based on an algorithm of qualitative and quantitative data, rating thousands of wealth advisors with a minimum of seven years of experience and weighing factors like revenue trends, assets under management, compliance records, industry experience and best practices learned through telephone and in - person interviews.

If you'd like to learn the New Rules of Cold Calling, you can do that by attending the no - cost Webinar Event of the Year, «Sales 2.5: Combining the New Tools with the Old Rules to Maximize Sales» Click Here to Learn learn the New Rules of Cold Calling, you can do that by attending the no - cost Webinar Event of the Year, «Sales 2.5: Combining the New Tools with the Old Rules to Maximize Sales» Click Here to Learn Learn More.

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Bill Child Chairman, R.C. Willey Home Furnishings (a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway) Topic: «How to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The R.C. Willey Story» 9:40 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. Robert Hagstrom Author and Portfolio Mgr, Legg Mason Growth Trust Topic: «Go Big: The Investment Case for US Multinationals» 10:50 a.m. — 11:50 p.m. Chuck Akre Managing Member and CEO Akre Capital Topic: «Finding Outstanding Investments» 11:50 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. Networking Lunch - Executive Deli Sandwiches in the atrium Sponsored by Morningstar 12:50 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. Pat Dorsey Author, Director of Research - Sanibel Captiva Trust Topic: «10 Years, 100 Analysts and 2,000 Stocks: Learning From Experience» 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Tom Russo Partner, Gardner Russo & Gardner Topic: «Global Value Equity Investing»

At Four Walls our mission is to bring the best Sales Platform to the Real Estate industry accompanied by a Sales Framework learned from years of selling experience.

It's my pleasure to share what we learned about FinTech shift by analyzing some of the data and also talking to hundreds of entrepreneurs and FIs in - person in the last couple of years.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement by joseph murphy Corwin, 200 pages, $ 34.95 The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling by quinn cummings perigee, 240 pages, $ 23.95 I'm tempted to compare homeschooling to a YouTube video gone viral.

But if I were told that what I am writing will be read in twenty years time by the children of today, and that those children will laugh, weep, and learn to love life as they read, why then I would devote the whole of my life and energy to it.

(In lieu of normative definitions here is an incomplete list of new developments which have emerged in the last 20 years: news satellites, color television, cable relay television, cassettes, videotape, videotape recorders, video - phones, stereophony, laser techniques, electrostatic reproduction processes, electronic high - speed printing, composing and learning machines, microfiches with electronic access, printing by radio, time - sharing computers, data banks.

If you doubt the accuracy of the Bible, then how was a man named Job able to say with precision that «the earth hung upon nothing» (Job 26:7) some 3,600 years ago, since the most learned men even a thousand years later held to the belief that the earth was held up by elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle?

Jesus knew the Scriptures, but He did not learn them by spending years locked away in His study, even though that was the «popular method» of His day.

For a year I shall serve purely as a deacon, an office set up by the first apostles to serve the community, as recounted in chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles; read on and you'll learn how the first deacon, Stephen, quickly also became the first Christian martyr.

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

JDJ, «Smart» isn't learning science from your preacher, or from a book written thousands of years ago by men who know relatively little about the natural world.

Two, reiteration is a major component of learning as demonstrated by the number of times the OT has been reiterated over the last 3000 years and the NT over the last 2000 years.

We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.