Sentences with phrase «laggards do»

Top performers are promoted; laggards don't last long.

Fully 59 % of those in the leader category in 2012 had a formally accountable executive for innovation; only 28 % of those in the laggards did.

Not exact matches

That means rebalancing your portfolio at least once a year, by selling some of the assets that have done best — and exceeded their model allocation — and buying more of your laggards.

Leaders who don't listen end up as losers and their companies become laggards.

Both Samsung and HTC are seeing slower - than - expected sales of their latest devices, while perennial laggards Nokia and BlackBerry aren't doing any better.

«It's your country, Canada's going to do what it's going to do,» Nye said, making a point of referring to his own country's government as an environmental laggard.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

The reason one Society is a laggard may have something to do with the fact that other societies are not.

But he's angry that Rosemount has been one of the laggards in the top 15 and says it needs to do better after being an underperformer for many years.

I know he's a bit of a laggard in this area, but how do you tell someone they don't have very good guest manners?

More importantly, it is unfair to high - quality teachers, especially younger teachers, who don't get immediate reward for their performance, have to wait 20 years or more to reap the full benefits, may not get the full benefits if they leave the profession (which is possible in an age in which one can change careers at least three times during their working lives), and must deal with laggard colleagues being paid equal pay for less - than - stellar work.

When you do encounter the occasional laggard who pushes back, incorporate the use of the model classroom as a professional learning goal or growth plan outcome for them.

The fact that they work among laggards also allows them to hide in plain sight; once the poor performers are weeded out, the definition of high quality is raised; this can change their status and that may be a bridge they don't want to cross.

As with the oft - rehashed posturing by traditionalists that reformers «bash» and «demonize» teachers, the claim that reformers don't listen to teachers is based on the unwillingness of traditionalists to admit these facts: That there are laggard instructors in our classrooms who shouldn't be there.

And as a result, the two unions find themselves taking positions on issues such as dismissing laggard and criminally culpable teachers that are contradictory to their proclamations about professionalism — and do little for either teachers or the children they serve.

It is also high time to ditch traditional teacher compensation and seniority - based privileges that keep laggard instructors in classrooms; utilizing student test score growth data in evaluations as well as in structuring teaching staffs must also be done.

The Odyssey didn't feel like a laggard under my control, but these engine specs are not terribly impressive compared to what some automakers are wringing out of smaller engines.

You can do this by adding new money to the underperforming asset classes, or by selling off some of the outperforming funds and using the proceeds to prop up the laggards.

Why do you want to still stick with laggards?

In mid-March, ISI Total Return U.S. Treasury Fund (TRUSX) and North American Government Bond Fund (NOAMX, which had 15 % each in Canadian and Mexican bonds) reorganized into Centre Active U.S. Treasury Fund (DHTRX, which has no such exposure to explain its parlous performance); ISI Strategy Fund (STRTX, which holds a 10 % bond stake) merged into Centre American Select Equity Fund (DHAMX, which doesn't but which still manages to trail STRTX, its peers and the S&P 500); and, finally, Managed Municipal Fund (MUNIX, which was also a substantial laggard) was absorbed by Centre Active U.S. Tax Exempt Fund (DHBIX).

It happens to be the mirror image of what we were doing earlier this year when the bulk of our contributions went to bonds which was the laggard asset class.

I wholly endorse Hansen's carbon tax - time and time again we have seen models that suggest that with the proceeds promptly refunded, a carbon tax will only hurt the laggards and fools who do no take common sense means to reduce their carbon footprint.

After the agreement was reached, The New York Times reported:» [T] he individual countries» plans are voluntary, but the legal requirements that they publicly monitor, verify and report what they are doing, as well as publicly put forth updated plans, are designed to create a «name - and - shame» system of global peer pressure, in hopes that countries will not want to be seen as international laggards.»

That is, doing something like «after midnight» means that any laggards are likely to be reporting abnormally high due to daytime heat.

History proves that laggards only grab for the new once they are totally convinced the old doesn't work anymore.

«It's your country, Canada's going to do what it's going to do,» Nye said, making a point of referring to his own country's government as an environmental laggard.

The fact that we are outside the traditional partnership model is an advantage — we don't have to worry about bringing people along, slow decision making, or technology laggards.

Why do you want to still stick with laggards?

NREI: Which sectors of the commercial / multifamily real estate markets do you think will be the big leaders or laggards in 2016?