Sentences with phrase «good people losing»

When I was the Chief Operating Officer and HR Director, I used to feel sick watching good people lose job offers they could have won if they had better interviewing skills.

Not exact matches

VCs are supposed to be good - natured people who simply suck it up when they lose hundreds of millions of dollars and, in this even crazier case, when they are literally more than $ 8 billion ahead of the game on their piddly $ 27 million investment.

«A lot of the development in deep learning came out of Canadian universities, yet the industry wasn't positioned well enough to capitalize on that innovation, so we've lost a lot of people to south of the border,» said Foteini Agrafioti, who leads RBC's deep - learning division.

I've done my fair share of listening to managers (many of whom are former clients) complain about their employees and losing good people, which adversely affects their ability to perform well.

Nikitopoulos, who has lost 40 percent of his income since 2010, told CNBC that although he is an optimist, he doesn't think the economic situation of the Greek people will get better.

«When we're watching a TV show that involves people trying to lose weight, there's some part of us that says,??? Well, at least I'm not that bad.»»

«We would have people call that they were hit by the recession, maybe they lost their job or business wasn't as good as it had been, so they'd want to sell their machine guns» Goepfert says.

«We post the video or the handwritten note onto our social media feed as well as contact our network of volunteer detectives who are 40 or 50 people across the country who have said that they want to help individuals experiencing homelessness locate their long lost loved ones,» explains Kevin F. Adler, the organization's founder.

People aren't stupid, and trying to paint them all with the same brush or compensate them all in roughly the same way is the quickest way to lose your best people and demotivate even the good ones, who stay while they're looking for their nexPeople aren't stupid, and trying to paint them all with the same brush or compensate them all in roughly the same way is the quickest way to lose your best people and demotivate even the good ones, who stay while they're looking for their nexpeople and demotivate even the good ones, who stay while they're looking for their next job.

For a small business struggling to compete for the best talent in its industry, benefits can make the difference between winning a person with the specialized skills you need or losing that candidate to someone else.

What we lost when the general store was replaced with a catalog was a person who knew us well enough to actually make valuable recommendations about what we might need.

But often lost in the back and forth between the two well known personality types is a startling fact — most people are neither.

The junior people in the organization wouldn't bother submitting concepts, and there's a good chance the organization would lose out on the best ideas a result.

«The cost to go out if we lost all those people to retrain and get people that were as good at doing a job as they were pre-fire, I think it would have been tenfold over what we ended up paying them out.

People decide to eat healthier and to begin exercising, hoping to lose weight or just get in better shape for the upcoming bathing suit season.

People like me who are 61, our hair turns grey, our vision changes, our memory is not as good, we lose our hair.

Whether you're selling a product or service, it's a good idea to make sure you never lose touch when it comes to the people you're serving — no matter how high up the ladder you climb.

Researcher Andrew Hafenbrack and his team at INSEAD in Singapore, as well as the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, have concluded that 15 minutes of mindfulness meditation daily can reduce people's tendency to persist with lost causes because of past investment.

Bad leverage results in one person winning and the others losing — typically a consequence of working with bad people — whereas in good leverage situations, all parties can benefit from the outcome of the transaction or deal.

«Every year, we lose good people because of scholarships.»

«There are a lot of businesses where you're better off stabbing people in the back, but as a VC you're better off helping people and being honest even if you lose money in the short run,» says Davis.

When most people seek happiness, they are actually seeking pleasure: good food, more sex, more time for TV and movies, a new car, parties with friends, full body massages, losing 10 pounds, becoming more popular, and so on.

What people are saying online about your brand — the good, the bad and the oftentimes inaccurate — makes all the difference when it comes to winning or losing customers, says Michael Fertik, founder and chief executive of Redwood City, Calif. - based online reputation management agency Reputation.com and co-author of Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier (AMACOM, 2010).

The founders receive thousands of letters from people whose lives are demonstrably not good, because they are sick or have lost a loved one.

As we near 10 percent unemployment nationwide (and go well past it in some areas of the country), the fear of losing a job or the sting of having already lost one is encouraging more people to own their own business.

Because if your good people and loyal knowledge workers are seeing any of these eight toxic habits in action (the first four are about management; the rest are about the workplace), the leadership battle at the top may already have been lost.

Price lost some of his best people over his move and I can see why.

«If you say, «Over the next six months, we think there is a 95 percent chance that you won't lose more than 17 percent,» that's a legitimate risk metric from a quantitative finance standpoint, but it's not a good way to explain risk to people with no financial training,» Wakeman said.

«There is absolutely no way to conduct a well - run execution without causing at least one person to lose a little bit of their humanity, or to start at least one person on the cumulative path to post-traumatic stress.

Finding ways to calm nervous investors may seem like a good idea after the high emotion of the past two years, but the notion may lose its appeal once the market recovers and advisers revert to analyzing numbers, not people.

In his keynote, Zuckerberg made an impassioned case that this is all a good thing: «The world would lose if Facebook went away,» he said, reiterating that «we're going to continue building products that connect people in new ways.»

This isn't optional: if your best people aren't growing in their careers as your business gains traction and expands, they will quickly lose enthusiasm for their work.

«Most people do behave quite well, especially these days; nobody's interested in losing their jobs,» says Olen.

It sounds like when people heard the words «Facebook killer,» they wanted it all: They wanted everything good from Facebook, free — minus losing control of their data.

Many people began to lose hope that things would ever get better.

If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would think the next line of attack would be to both make sure the liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and more needs to be done to convince those believing oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.

If they lose my money, I wouldn't be upset in the slightest with them because I know they're good people who did everything in their power to make it right.

People do not realize they do more damage than good and dilute their brand when they come out of the blocks strong then within a short time period taper off and lose interest.

[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?

Paper wallets are often a good choice for people who want total control over their funds because they are stored completely out of the prying eyes of any hacker, but can be a risk if the piece of paper is lost or damaged.

In fact, free markets don't work well at all unless certain people lose.

You can aim to post at the most popular usage times to get in front of more people, but keep in mind that others are pursuing this strategy as well — it may be worth testing your posts during off times, when your content is less likely to be lost amidst the noise.

And some people will feel, «Well, I shouldn't ask for help because I didn't lose someone.»

Guy Smith: That's a good lesson for people who are trying to launch their companies in Silicon Valley is that you're going to start losing customers from day one and fold that into your economic forecast.

In my experience, when people start talking of a lost decade for stocks somewhere, this is often a good time to actually own stocks as the next decade is often a lot better although it might not look so.

People have been reminded that property prices and rents go down as well as up, and this is being reflected in their behaviour — gearing up for property acquisition, for example, has lost its earlier appeal.

I want to motivate others and be a mentor for people to lose weight or change their lifestyle for the better.

I tell people I'm a house husband so as to avoid telling them I'm retired (amazing how quickly alpha males lose interest lol — but best thing I ever did to stifle the oh - so - tiresome questions about how it was possible)

There's really no telling what the price of a coin will be once mining rewards are in fractions of a coin level, but it seems that during that time more and more people will enter the market with interest and vigor, and those people will help raise the price as well as stabilize it by having a far greater number of people who can decide if and when Bitcoin is losing value.

One big problem today is that the world is full of preachers who don't have the guts to tell the truth and just give people their weekly feel good and sent them out into the world just as lost as they ever were.