Sentences with phrase «conventional wisdom about»

It's a fascinating book that makes it very clear that the conventional wisdom about child development is flat - out wrong.»

Counters conventional wisdom about marriage and divorce, providing curative techniques and describing how marital satisfaction is not the key to marital stability, emotional divorce precedes actual divorce, and arguing can be a healthy sign.

Unquestionable to the conventional wisdom about divorce is that it at least makes people happier.

Forget all the conventional wisdom about trimming your resume down to one or two pages.

Here are ten things I would always do when writing a resume, regardless of the conventional wisdom about resumes.

Thus, he argues, you can throw out all the conventional wisdom about how short your resume should be, for easy reading, since you're really just trying to appeal to a word - seeking system.

For purposes of this article, allow me to suggest that the conventional wisdom about dividend paying mutual whole life insurance believes that there are essentially two noses if you understand the point... this is a matter of flawed perception.

Slaw readers, cast aside your presuppositions and conventional wisdom about the legal profession and propose something new, even radical — pretend the legal profession doesn't exist in its current form and you need to invent it.

Just as the recent global recession upended conventional wisdom about, say, the immutable law of nature that residential property values always go up, these law firms have demonstrated that a firm can eschew hourly billing and yet grow profitably by focusing on efficiency, client satisfaction and predictability.

Here's what I think: the conventional wisdom about power in law firms is wrong.

The headline is found in the introduction by The American Lawyer editor Aric Press, who observes that the survey dispels some of the conventional wisdom about associate life.

Over the past several years, we here at FindLaw have been digging deep into the conventional wisdom about what makes a successful digital marketing strategy for law firms like yours.

Before you scroll away, however, consider how a volcano - fertilized North Pacific Ocean phenomenally restored Pacific salmon runs in 2010 - to levels not seen since the early 1930's - and how this restoration squares with conventional wisdom about «iron seeding» being too hazardous to experiment with as a potential geo - engineering method.Following the late August of 2008 Aleutian volcano eruption, which spewed iron - rich ash over the North Pacific Ocean, the cohort of 2009 salmon (which «ran» in British Columbia streams in August of 2010) produced a spawning run much larger than what those same streams hosted 100 years ago.

With your help, he's using TierneyLab to check out new research and rethink conventional wisdom about science and society.

But if new reports are to be believed, that conventional wisdom about running a campaign on coal could be suffering the same fate as the coal industry itself.

Both camps drew intellectual inspiration from brilliant women who wrote brilliant books — Jane Jacobs, whose «Death and Life of Great American Cities» assaulted the conventional wisdom about «urban renewal; and Rachel Carson, whose «Silent Spring» helped give birth to the environmental movement by documenting the harmful effect of pesticides.

Thanks to the single - minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant.

There was a conventional wisdom about how doctor shows were done, and I wanted to change that.

A new survey suggests the conventional wisdom about carbon taxes is wrong: Promising to give people their money back with rebate checks isn't the best way to win public support.

This past year saw President Obama's aggressive pronouncement of his climate agenda, more of the same for the Keystone XL pipeline, and some of the starkest evidence that America's oil and natural - gas boom is turning on its head almost every bit of conventional wisdom about the global energy landscape.

Proposals / plans to increase the long - term reliability of the sequestering are met with vigorous political opposition, opposition inspired by, again, mass - media conventional wisdom about radiation and its risks.

Throughout a segment that features over fifty pieces, including works in the inaugural exhibition of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, Baldessari assails conventional wisdom about art and meaning.

This event is part of UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture.

The conventional wisdom about shooters is that they need a progression system to pull me in and forward.

There's a second part to the Conventional Wisdom about paying with points, which Scott mentioned as well.

That can seem pedantic, but only because the conventional wisdom about the value of manufacturing spend on hotel co-branded credit cards is roughly correct (Starwood, Hilton, and Wyndham are pretty good, the others are very bad).

But it's going to serve as our example to explore some Conventional Wisdom about non-saver award redemptions.

Duvin makes a rational appeal for a new ethic in animal sheltering, questioning conventional wisdom about the kindest way to relate to homeless animals.

And as I've gotten older I'm realizing that so much of conventional wisdom about money is wrong — about how to earn it, how to save it, and how to spend it.

Yup, all that conventional wisdom about putting your money in a savings account is losing you money.

But I shared the conventional wisdom about them, which is that they're a bad idea and there are all kinds of late night commercials about them that just lead to a bad reputation.

This is the conventional wisdom about this candlestick formation, and it is correct — in most cases.

Why the conventional wisdom about investing is flat - out wrong.

«There are a number of different approaches that demonstrate why the conventional wisdom about stocks is wrong.

For purposes of this article, allow me to suggest that the conventional wisdom about dividend paying mutual whole life insurance believes that there are essentially two noses if you understand the point... this is a matter of flawed perception.

There is some conventional wisdom about ISBNs in eBooks: 1) they make your eBook and brand look «professional», and 2) they increase your eBook's discoverability.

Last week Scholastic released the Kids and Family Reading Report, its annual survey of children's reading, and some of the results run counter to conventional wisdom about how much children love electronic books and desire independence.

A new study by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) puts a twist on the conventional wisdom about ebook consumers, e-readers and tablets.

These new strategies flout conventional wisdom about why and how promo works.

To explain what this is all about is author Alfie Kohn in an article adapted from the author's new book The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting, just published by Da Capo Press.

Following conventional wisdom about classroom management often results in manipulating students instead of respecting them.

Conventional wisdom about learning is often detached from what the research says, and a recent Center for American Progress study highlighted this disconnect.68 For instance, research by Carol Dweck and others has shown that simply praising students «for being smart» is an inappropriate way to motivate them in the classroom, and it can adversely impact their achievement.69 But most Americans believe just the opposite.

If Carnoy and Rothstein are correct, the conventional wisdom about U. S. standing in the world has been tossed into a cocked hat.

In state after state, boys are slipping behind girls in math scores on state exams — which steps on all the conventional wisdom about boys excelling in math — while falling far behind girls in reading.

«Turning the conventional wisdom about child development on its head, New York Times Magazine editor Tough argues that non-cognitive skills (persistence, self - control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self - confidence) are the most critical to success in school and life.

The results of a McKinsey & Company survey defy conventional wisdom about what leads to success for a sales team in the K - 12 market.

It illustrates a few interesting issues that go against the conventional wisdom about teachers, their unions, and their pension plans:

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For at least a generation, as American public education has stagnated, the conventional wisdom about leadership has focused on an old idea: certify educators to fix the problem.

Murphy summarizes the conventional wisdom about heroic leaders, citing six distinct expectations: