Sentences with phrase «lead by consensus»

Lead by consensus.

You lead by consensus — something that is both a gift and a problem in church leadership.

«Speaker Silver leads by consensus and, as you know, he's the Democratic conference's chief negotiator.

According to the analysis, Paterson led by consensus, employed aides who were only required to perform extraneous and minor tasks, and allowed his managers to booze it up with subordinates and show up to work hung over.

Not exact matches

In the months and weeks leading up to the congressional debate, she's met with dozens of lawmakers, conservative advocacy organizations, and business groups to build consensus and support for a plan that adopts parts of a 2015 proposal by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee.

The sad part is, whatever his fact - checking failures, the consensus among Washington reporters seems to be that Mr. Wolff gets it exactly right in his overarching portrait of a chaotic, dysfunctional White House where the inept and the inexperienced are led by the unqualified.

This consensus was that development should henceforth be led by investments by transnational corporations (TNCs) rather than by grants by governments and intergovernmental organizations.

Not only are irrefutable facts being challenged by people who do not understand the science involved or the importance of these facts, but the belief that there is no scientific consensus leads to a lack of attitudes to change.

The research continued, and in May 1982 the National Institute of Mental Health released the findings of a ten - year follow - up to the surgeon general's 1972 study: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

The meetings led to lively interchanges, including some clashes that were moderated by friendliness and desire for consensus.

Kuyper certainly wouldn't have been pleased by his followers» failure to evangelize, and pillarization needn't lead to a lack of outward strategy, but historically such power - sharing agreements place a premium on reaching a least - common - denominator form of consensus and toning down differences.

Its Christian humanism was borne by the informal consensus of southern Lutheran gentlemen, led by impressive and learned clergy presidents.

But research continued, and in May of 1982, the National Institute for Mental Health released the findings of a 10 - year follow up on the Surgeon General «s 1972 Study entitled Television and Behavior: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

Throughout most of history human beings have lived in situations in which there was general consensus on the nature of reality and on the norms by which one should lead one's life.

Giroud and Walcott are simply not good enough to lead the line, that consensus has been reached by the majority of Arsenal fans.

The consensus is that the underclassmen (led by Haley Jones and Karisma Osborne) are even more talented.

The general consensus seems to be that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will select Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston with the first overall pick, although there has been a recent movement — led by ESPN's Ron Jaworski — who believe that Oregon QB Marcus Mariota could be the pick.

By the time Gordon Brown was forced to visit the TV studios in the evening it was already too late, and the consensus was he was following, not leading.

He leads by building consensus, listening to good ideas and serving all New Yorkers.»

If the main objective is to build cross-party consensus, then cross-party talks are the obvious vehicle (as in the cross party talks which preceded the Belfast agreement, or the current talks on further devolution to Scotland led by Lord Smith of Kelvin).

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

The «lions led by donkeys» consensus about the First World War bears little resemblance to the reality of the conflict.

Sparked by Mark Changizi's article at the Huffington Post on «What to do about all the crazy, ridiculous research» out there, the general consensus was that sometimes what seem to be the most outlandish ideas are the ones that lead to the biggest advancements in science and elsewhere.

The IPCC's conclusions were reviewed and endorsed by the national science academies of every major nation from the United States to China, along with leading scientific societies and indeed virtually every organization that could speak for a scientific consensus.

Led by Jessica S. Merlin, M.D., visiting associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the study pinpointed the common concerning behaviors, identified management strategies and established areas of consensus on the importance of each strategy.

In the consensus statement endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published in the December Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and Nutrition in Clinical Practice, the two organizations say: «The universal use of a single set of diagnostic parameters will expedite the recognition of pediatric undernutrition, lead to the development of more accurate estimates of its prevalence and incidence, direct interventions and promote improved outcomes.»

Wicker also cited a publication by the Global Warming Petition Project, a document signed by nearly 32,000 American scientists that disputes the international scientific consensus that man - made greenhouse gas emissions are causing the Earth's atmosphere to warm, leading to potentially catastrophic changes in the climate.

WASHINGTON — Led by Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA chief came under a steady attack by Democrats on Wednesday, even as he promised to run the space agency on a consensus agenda driven by science.

The talking heads speak directly to the camera, the leading «professor» being author Jon Krakauer, who gives insights into the decision taken by consensus of the men.

The general consensus from most reactions so far seem to be that the film is an exciting Star Wars adventure, featuring a pitch - perfect performance by leading man Alden Ehrenreich and co-star Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian.

These findings have led to an emerging consensus, well summarized by Jane Hornickel and Nina Kraus in the Journal of Neuroscience in 2012: dyslexia is primarily an auditory disorder that arises from an inability to respond to speech sounds in a consistent manner.

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

Fortunately, advances in neuroscience, buttressed since the late 1990s by neuroimaging and brain electrophysiological technology, have led to an emerging consensus about the causes of dyslexia — underlying capacities essential for learning to read, which emerge through brain development, are less developed in children diagnosed with dyslexia.

The open letter — signed by myself, Gordon and Sarah Brown, Lee Bollinger, the President of Columbia University, Hanan Al Hroub, the winner of the Global Teacher Prize, and leading voices at other academic institutions — demonstrates a broad consensus on this essential issue of refugee education.

«Adamowski's style «was my way or no way» and «He is not a person who leads by building consensus among all stakeholders,»» according to the local teacher union leader.

Well, the political gridlock in Washington has led to a game of brinkmanship around the debt ceiling (which needs to be acted on in the next two weeks), a failure to pass a solid budget, and no consensus whatsoever about how to start reducing the deficit by either cutting spending or raising taxes.

With artistic possibilities stifled by consumer - led consensus, where to look for a way out of this mannered circumscription?

At the beginning, there was an intellectual consensus led by Clement Greenberg, art critic for the Nation, that art history was a progression of insight from the enlightenment forward, culminating in even and flat abstract painting.

@ 18, Leading by example matters if there is already consensus regarding your position.

A narrative of a scientific establishment thrown into chaos mild confusion by outlier results that leads a band of plucky computer modellers to take up a lot of supercomputer time to investigate and who then come up with a perfectly reasonable explanation that reinforces the consensus, can occasionally get written about.

The public scene in the plenary, leading up to the private meeting and the consensus to «take note» of the accord, is recorded in the conference minutes below, which provide a window on the «wild roller coaster ride» described by Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary General for Policy and Planning.

The idea (quoted in the United Nations Environmental Programme report) that in order to be reasonably sure of avoiding dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change, a minimum of a 50 % cut in global emissions compared with 1990 levels is required by 2050, is based firmly on the IPCC - led consensus, contrary to the impression you appear to have.

Instead, knowledge of a consensus over how much we already know or a rough estimate of how long it will take to learn a greed deal more could very well lead to public and political reactions quite different from those created by a noisy, angry, and dichotomized debate.

I think many (by no means all) skeptics are motivated by an instinctive humanism and understanding of freedom which leads them to reject the scientised green consensus.

«A narrative of a scientific establishment thrown into [chaos] mild confusion by outlier results that leads a band of plucky computer modellers to take up a lot of supercomputer time to investigate and who then come up with a perfectly reasonable explanation that reinforces the consensus, can occasionally get written about.»

This Digest is a faithful summary of the leading scientific consensus report produced in 2008 by the World Health Organization (WHO):» Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World» Learn more...

Because scientific ideas are always moving forward, the consensus is always going to be behind the leading thinkers and therefore by default, passe.

At the other extreme, however, the process that leads to the consensus is heavily politically charged, as well as strongly value - laden, the environment in which the scientists operate is polarized and characterized by competing non-scientific interests, and scientists are exposed to possibly significant consequences attached to taking a scientific position that deviates from the consensus position.

And as long as the proponents of CAGW, led by the Royal Society and the American Physical Society, continue to spout this nonsense that because there is a consensus on CAGW, therefore it must be correct, then the scientific community is doing itself a very bad disservice by not crying out from the mountain top that this is a load of nonsense.

This Digest is a faithful summary of the leading scientific consensus report produced in 2010 by The Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP):» Proceedings of the GESAMP International Workshop on micro - plastic particles as a vector in transporting persistent, bio - accumulating and toxic substances in the oceans» Learn more...