Someday I'm hoping I'll have a large enough backyard to have a table for dinner parties and a fire pit
for good conversation with friends.
Not exact matches
Then I roleplay the
conversation with a team member so my responses are fluid, concise and
well thought out
for our next
conversation.»
Leaders who master the practice of
good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story by searching
conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up
with the right solution.
It's
better for you to be able to complete the
conversation with that salty customer in private, off of the main stage of your business Facebook Page.
But here's the key: If you're in a
conversation at a work - related function or meeting someone to talk business
for the first time, your
best move is not to ask work - or business - related questions; it's to discover common ties
with that person that will steer the
conversation back to the «work stuff,» but
with a deeper connection.
For Seattle's
Best Coffee, it all began one afternoon last summer
with a
conversation between Michelle Gass, president of Seattle's
Best Coffee, and Howard Schultz, CEO, president, and founder of Starbucks Corporation.
Other times I'm all
for killing the time
with a
good conversation.
Once [you are] in
conversation with the corporate team, make sure that their values match your own and that they are a
good fit
for you and your family.
If managers are on
good enough terms
with employees
for a casual
conversation over beers, by all means informalize the process.
CNBC's Jon Fortt reports on his
conversation with Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on General Electric's cloud technology as
well as the future
for artificial intelligence.
Microsoft (msft) first detailed its chat app in November, pitching it as a way
for employees in companies to
better communicate
with each other via online
conversations.
There's no application to this secretive club, but the owners are looking
for people «who understand the value of
good old - fashioned
conversation and having real face time
with friends and colleagues.»
You can create structure
for the
conversations you're seeking out as
well as set up accountability systems so you progress in sync
with these teachings.
While common football metaphors like «Don't sit on the sideline» can be useful, your
best bet is to focus
conversations around your excitement
for the annual «Super Bowl Squares,» a betting pool operated by the Super Bowl Square Manager, wherein an employee
with the least amount of football knowledge wins the most money.
Make sure you take the time to talk to employees so they leave work on a
good note — staff will remember the thoughtful
conversations they had
with the boss
for weeks and months to come.»
You'll want to participate in
conversations related to your area of expertise, work
with influencers in your industry to achieve a higher level of visibility, and even engage
with targeted individuals who might be a
good fit
for your brand.
The event concluded
with a roundtable
conversation between Schneider - Ammann and various speakers discussing the promotion of the blockchain ecosystem in Zug, as
well as challenges
for creating jobs and retaining and attracting foreign talent.
With the right strategies and practices, it can take administrative burden off your plate, help you
better serve your customers, and warm up more prospects
for meaningful, personal
conversations that create sales
for your small business.
The theme of this year's MPW International Summit was «Leading
with Purpose,» and the Summit featured dynamic
conversations focused on
best practices
for building great businesses, understanding technology trends, and creating value — via investment opportunities in China and across the Asia - Pacific region.
The
conversation about angel money is one I have all the time
with entrepreneurs so I thought it would make
for a
good post on understanding angel investing — how they think, how you should think and how the first round venture capital firm will think by the time the deal gets to them.
Because later on you know five 10 years later and I'm looking back I was having a
conversation with my kids one time and I was saying
well you just have to take 100 percent responsibility
for anything that happens in your life.
[Steve Eisman] A write - up on the impending Hilton (HLT) spinoff [Clark Street Value] CBRE (CBG): industry deep dive to detect an emerging moat [Punch Card] A look at Discovery Communications (DISCA / K)[Contrarian Edge] Sustainable sources of competitive advantage [Collaborative Fund] Why deep learning matters and what's next
for AI [Algorithmia] The unexpected genius of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg [Fortune] Google's online travel adventure upsets its biggest advertisers [Bloomberg] A billionaire's dreams of creating a guns empire [NYMag] If oil refiners crash, so will the economy [WSJ] Mastercard, Visa set to reap spoils of India's war on cash [Bloomberg] How
Best Buy (BBY) fought Amazon [WSJ] The evolution of media & entertainment: conversation with CEOs [YouTube] How to get comfortable with being umcomfortable [Inc] Why gut feelings may really help you make risky decisions [Washington Post] Why stoicism is one of the best mind - hacks ever devised [A
Best Buy (BBY) fought Amazon [WSJ] The evolution of media & entertainment:
conversation with CEOs [YouTube] How to get comfortable
with being umcomfortable [Inc] Why gut feelings may really help you make risky decisions [Washington Post] Why stoicism is one of the
best mind - hacks ever devised [A
best mind - hacks ever devised [Aeon]
Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner
conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along
with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share
with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors
for the upcoming 12 months as
well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.
Moreover on the subject on how
well Litecoin is doing at the current moment, it seems that the overall tone of
conversation implicated that he is worried about the recent downfalls LTC has had
with dropping from the 5th to taking the 7th place on the global coin ranking list, although Litecoin is trading in the green
for quite some time now.
Through
conversations with Kris Engskov, Traci York and our local leadership, I'm grateful
for the focus on the safety and
well - being of the 5,600 partners still impacted by the floods.
For sites in competitive industries, assigning someone to seek out
good quality links and then spend time in
conversation with the target website, perhaps discussing ways to obtain the link or creating content that can be published on the desired site
with a link, is a sensible and strategic way to allocate SEO hours.
We engaged in
conversations with several women founders and VCs across the US to learn more about their experiences, both
good and bad, and to hear what ideas they had
for increasing the amount of capital going to women - founded companies.
Basically, if I could sum up the
conversations, they believed that the content was
good and can help buyers become interested however they saw that there was no means
for them to personally use this content as
well as to personally produce content specific
for their engagements
with buyers.
Yes, I whole heartedly dissagree
with even the existence of the Catholic Church (though they are
good for a laugh), something my Catholic wife and I have frequent
conversations about (interestingly enough, I know WAY more about the tennets of her faith than she does).
Geoff was finally transferred back to Changi Prison, bringing the opportunity
for further
conversations with Padre Noel Duckworth, as
well as reading and prayer.
Is it so wrong of me to have faith that only one person believes in the drivel that he's posting rather than think that another person a) actually thinks that chad is making
good points and
good enough points to post and b) go to the 62nd page of an almost defunct article
for a
conversation that has nothing to do
with themselves other than to cheer on a stupid post?
But I ultimately disagree
with my sincere,
well - meaning friends who say this forum shouldn't exist to begin
with,
for this reason: While a blog comments section is a piss - poor place
for this
conversation to be happening, it's happening here because other options have been attempted and found wanting.
According to Enns, we would do
well to learn a few things from the Jewish readers of Scripture whose emphasis in engaging the holy text is «not on solving the problems once and
for all but on a community upholding a
conversation with Scripture
with creative energy.»
I've had
conversation after
conversation after
conversation with women who struggled
with their sexuality even after getting married — even though the marital bed was sanctioned and holy and they were
with a
good man, many women I know struggled
with wanting sex, struggled
with not feeling dirty
for wanting it, struggled
with being able to have a healthy sexuality within marriage.
is a
good starting point
for a
conversation with anyone, including those of very conservative bent.
Well, if you are trying to help «clarify» things
for me, I must say, unfortunately, I'm still a bit confused in «some» aspects of my
conversations with you.
In her
conversation with Pam Rhodes
for Premier Christianity, she revealed that at her first communion, aged seven, she sang «Suffer Little Children To Come Unto Me» and «O Mary Mother Sweetest
Best».
For Berger, then, the theological enterprise is
best understood as a process of «induction,» in which one mediates and interprets personal experience in
conversation with one's religious tradition.
This is a
good start
for the
conversation with the kids — repetitive, accessible, age - appropriate
for littles, and educational.
Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate
with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in
conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality
better suited
for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.
I love to do treasure hunts by asking the Lord to highlight someone
for me to be on the lookout
for that day, such as a description of clothing, or a name and then I ask God to give me a word of knowledge about that person (such as Jesus «example
with the woman at the
well), and then as the
conversation opens up, I can share the hope to which I «ve been called.
Perhaps we should think of the participants as carrying along
with them their sincerely held beliefs about the
good and the true but agreeing,
for the sake of consensus, not to put forward those beliefs in the course of the
conversation.
This week we talk
with Mark Thompson about why he brings together those on the streets as
well as those in homes
for a culinary experience and
good conversation with friends.
This often shapes the
conversation in a much
better way, because it allows
for a personal story someone can take ownership of — and that provides them
with a much more genuine feeling than just arguing theological points.
For Rorty, once we see knowledge as a matter of conversation and of social practice, rather than as an attempt to mirror nature, truth is «what is good for us to believe» rather than privileged «contact with reality.&raq
For Rorty, once we see knowledge as a matter of
conversation and of social practice, rather than as an attempt to mirror nature, truth is «what is
good for us to believe» rather than privileged «contact with reality.&raq
for us to believe» rather than privileged «contact
with reality.»
He learns, through the revealing
conversation with God, that his choice
for humanization, wisdom, knowledge of
good and bad, or autonomy really means at the same time also estrangement from the world, self - division, division of labor, toil, fearful knowledge of death, and the institution of inequality, rule, and subservience.
The NFL Players» Union issued a statement defending its members right to free speech, saying «It is a source of enormous pride that some of the
best conversations about these issues have taken place in our locker rooms in a respectful, civil and thoughtful way that should serve as a model
for how all of us can communicate
with each other.
seems that some people
with vision are quite aggressive if this
conversation's anything to go by... not sure that's the
best of adverts
for vision... it also seems that those who don't have vision are passionate, which i would have thought is a
good advert
for no vision... these are just 2 observations.
After some
good conversations with my wife, we came up
with some set hours
for writing.
A
well - known deconstructionist scholar, while visiting Tokyo, met
with a small group of English - speaking Christian theologians
for an evening of
conversation in which he argued that God is obviously dead.