Sentences with phrase «do about failing»

And yet, as of yesterday's extraordinary U-turn on what to do about the failing and over-extended east coast mainline, Grayling and I are the only living British politicians to have nationalised a railway.

What are we doing about failing schools, how do we pay teachers and what we are paying for are questions that are implicitly raised in every budget.

Not exact matches

Here's what's bad about Valentine's Day: Failing to fine - tune your business strategy to that angle or thinking your products don't fit and missing a major opportunity.

I didn't think that much about downside risk, examine all the ways I could fail, or create a Plan B. Now, I understand it wasn't naivety, it was creative confidence, the reassuring knowledge that even if I don't know what the end - solution looks like from day one, I have the agility to test, measure, learn, and adjust on the fly.

«Everyone talks about the importance of being willing to fail, but more importantly it's being willing to have enough humility to recognize ahead of time that you don't know all the answers, that you do need other people's help.»

Although I did not focus aggressively on wellness in the past, it wasn't because I failed to care about my employees.

However, don't let the prospect of penalties dissuade you from learning about SEO and integrating it into your online marketing — chances are, if you haven't paid mind to SEO yet, you've already incurred penalties just by failing to optimize your content.

These latest reports and in particular the Productivity commission are nonsence to say that it will have a marked effect on the overseas On - Line sales is absolute rubbish.My daughter is in retail in Sydney the problem with overseas On - Line they pay no tax eg GST super, the list goes on we forget WA metro has say 1.8 m people Sydney has 6m Bondi Junction which is probiably the largest shopping centre in Sydney is shut at 6 o, clock most nights The gov keeps going on about the east and what they do Wayne Spencer and co are mouth peaces for the large retailers.My main concern is the On - Lne which is destroying Australias retail ecnomy if it fails being our largest employer the country will be in huge trouble economicly.I have spelt this out in detail in an Email to Bill Shorten if you would like a copy

The discovery of the network leads to some intriguing theories about why people often fail to come up with creative solutions when they're focusing on a problem but succeed later, when they're doing other things, like taking a shower or watching a movie.

He was acing the tests but about to fail the class anyway, as he couldn't bring himself to do the required practice problems at home.

While the newer version is very specific about what the company does, it certainly fails to meet the criteria I suggested earlier: it's not inspiring and it's certainly not brief and to the point.

And as a corollary, don't worry about failing.

About 5 % of businesses fail even when they have a good mentor, but as many as 25 % fail for those that don't.

Both work mostly, but I found they failed to do the job about 10 per cent of the time, which was frequent enough to be annoying.

New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell wrote extensively about Kenna in his 2005 book Blink, arguing Kenna's music - a cross between rap and the British new wave music of the 1980s - failed to gain widespread acclaim in the U.S. because it didn't fit into any familiar category.

Apple also failed to mention the watch's battery life, a feature CEO Tim Cook bragged about for the iPhone 6 — a worrisome sign, but it also could be because the Apple Watch doesn't hit until next year.

There is disruption meant for growth and disruption that arises because someone in a leadership role has no clue about what to do and keeps trying new things that fail miserably.

We make judgments about what we should do based on the people who survived, totally ignoring all the guidance from the people who failed.»

I wish I knew earlier on that by sticking with an idea after failing, you are forced to find your own way forward and get back to what inspired you in the first place — whether it's addressing a hole in the market or thinking about a different way of doing things.

What most companies fail to realize about winning cultures is that they don't exist by accident.

Given all the complaining I hear people doing about meetings, I sense that most gatherings fail to deliver the value people want to get from their time.

The lean philosophy is all about building a minimum viable product, failing fast, learning fast, and evolving fast — and doing that all quite cheaply.

You end up spending your time lamenting what you failed to accomplish and what you should have done differently instead of moving forward, excited about what you've achieved and what you will accomplish in the future.

But that doesn't mean reverse psychology should be consigned to the dust bin of failed parenting tricks entirely once your kid is beyond the arguing - about - whether - to - wear - pants phase.

Don't be that someone who thinks they «failed» at a romantic relationship and therefore ignores all the lessons to learn about themselves.

But when you ask what to do about it, that consensus quickly devolves into finger - pointing — at recycling companies like Waste Management for failing to innovate, at the American public for their lazy recycling habits, at producers for creating plastic packaging that is increasingly difficult to recycle, and even at the federal government for not passing strong legislation that encourages better practices.

«You can make all the excuses you want about how the world changed, etc., but if you fail, no one cares why it didn't work.»

His appearance on 60 Minutes reveals a lot about what the CIA was doing — or failed to do — before and after 9/11.

Failing to do this is a sign that you don't respect or care about your audience.

Don't let clients and other stakeholders learn about your failings from someone else.

Another argument is that, for all the strongly - worded new rules about resolving failing banks into bankruptcy, regulators simply won't have the guts to do so in reality.

«I actually thought, «Oh, that's gonna be a major plot for the season,»» Banks said about the fictional startup in Silicon Valley laying off its new sales team — and mostly failing to follow labor laws in doing so.

You also don't hear about the companies that could have had a nice exit but raised huge rounds and failed.

Impark levies a «violation fee» of about $ 70 to motorists who don't pay, overstay, or fail to display their ticket at its lots across Canada.

In my case, the CEO of this failed startup did not care deeply about the problem his company was out to solve.

Even if you do your searches from a specialized browser, tape over all your webcams and monitor your privacy settings without fail, your personal data has probably still been collected, stored and used in ways you didn't intend — and don't even know about.

And the worst part is, we didn't actually realize it was a failed operation until about a month after, because the forensics and analysis take time.

Don't be afraid to ask your lender about defaulting — it doesn't mean you think you're going to fail but you're preparing for every possible outcome.

The classy thing for this failed emperor to do would be to step down, but he probably cares more about his reputation or worse, he has some perverted sense of duty to the company which he delusionally believes needs him.

It's not fun to fail, and I don't recommend it:) But 80 % of startups die and one of the best things about tech is the belief that failure isn't fatal and is often the best way to learn and live to try again.

Among those who are failing to get excited about active ETFs, James Peters, CEO of Tactical Allocation Group, managing more than $ 1.5 billion in three ETF - based portfolios, says: «I don't see where they add any compelling value other than being cheaper in cost and having a tax advantage over the traditional mutual fund.»

Not only did she have a general election to think about last September, but she also had to contend with six months of cross-party negotiations after the election failed to deliver her ruling Christian Democratic bloc enough seats to form a government.

«About 90 % of cultural change programs fail, because either leadership don't want the change or general lethargy,» she said.

If you've tried to learn about it and failed then maybe you just didn't look in the right places.

If a bank pres can reap rewards from improved revenue, they don't tend to care about the loss of capital if the bank fails.

What the Justice Department settlement didn't do was put any Goldman Sachs» executive in jail nor did it provide details about how Goldman Sachs was not only selling investments that it knew were likely to fail but it was also making billions of dollars making wagers (shorting) that the instruments would indeed fail.

It's convenient that Cohn's new position does not require Senate confirmation since exactly what he knew about Goldman selling bogus investments to its clients while the firm made billions of dollars betting the instruments would fail might be raised in Senate questioning of Cohn's fitness to serve.

will let it fail and will do everything in his power for electric cars to succeed, but we can't say that about all growth stocks.

Of course, many people now feel that big banks don't have to worry about bad performance being magnified because under the implicit «too - big - to - fail» guarantee of the government, they won't have to take the losses when asset values decline.

Last year in one of my blog posts I argued that although I remained very skeptical about the sustainability of the China growth model I nonetheless believed that China bulls could make a plausible argument but were failing to do so largely because they did not address the three questions that were fundamental to the debate on the sustainability of the Chinese growth model.