Sentences with phrase «less about leaders»

He says it's less about leaders possessing a compelling shared vision and more about helping «people figure out the shorter - term goals on the way to achieving that vision and then set [ting] high expectations for people in accomplishing those.»

Not exact matches

But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less about the books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile women — the kinds of books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.

One of the ironies about being a leader is that you sometimes wield a lot less power than people think.

One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

In fact, being an excellent leader is about you doing less talking and more listening.

Breakthrough leaders are less concerned with people's personal loyalty to them and more concerned about building a place where everybody is loyal to the company first — even if that means disagreeing with the big cheese.

«Some pump and dumps use false news reports, typically about a famous high - tech business leader or investor who plans to pour millions of dollars into a small, lesser known virtual currency or coin.

«The reluctance to pull the trigger on share repurchases suggests corporate leaders are becoming less enthusiastic about what they see ahead.»

During a portion of an interview with NBC News National Political Reporter Heidi Przybyla, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) stated, «the less we talk about impeachment, the better off we are as a country.»

Church leaders have long struggled talking about sex, much less pornography.

We should be concerned when our expectation of a Christian leader becomes more about what they can provide for us and less about who they are leading us towards.

But that's not the case here, and from the sounds of it, most religious leaders couldn't care less about the ads.

and then they are excommunicated and the fight is over... this is a hopeless fight especially when religion is involved... they either fight for rights and lose it all (and essentially go to hell) or give in and listen to their religious leaders... I do not believe in what they do and could care less really but they are in a no win situation and they as nuns should not be worried about birth control or anything of the such... they took the vows..

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

One of the 13 executive presbyters of the Assemblies of God, and in 1985 a top contender for general superintendent of that denomination, the silver - haired, silken - voiced Dortsch gave PTL credibility in the eyes of Assemblies of God leaders who were still not too sure about the propriety of watching TV, much less of waterslides.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

This analysis is very interesting, though questions remain about how much in these areas was really common to all the leaders, let alone to followers with less theological expertise.

But that air stays parted: A runner drafting on a leader does about 7 % less work.

That's thanks largely to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was the first to suggest additional disaster aid — remember that FEMA only has about $ 800 million on hand, which is less than even New York's estimated storm bill of $ 1 billion — be offset by other budget cuts.

Mayor Bloomberg, who is a veteran critic of the city Board of Elections (whose politically - connected leaders routinely accuse him of trying to starve them out of existence), was not shy about sharing his less - than - charitable thoughts about reports of widespread problems at polling sites throughout the five boroughs.

I could not agree less with your leader article (TP, November) about US campaign tools that: «the party is king and the candidate has limited freedom to step outside the party line.»

Whether Osborne is now officially the Tory backbenchers» favourite to replace David Cameron as party leader, as the report suggests, I don't know — but his position is certainly far less vulnerable than it was last summer, when I wrote about it for the Times (#).

Lawyers in the office were delighted, for example, when the son of Dean Skelos, the Senate majority leader and an only slightly less august figure than Silver, was caught on a wiretap complaining to his father about the culture of rectitude newly created in Albany.

Revealingly, Moore notes that talking about Margaret Thatcher to audiences they are less interested in her politics, but rather her as a worker, a colleague, a wife and a mother, a public performer, a leader and a Christian.

Grayling is even being talked about as a future leader by some, even though he has less hair than William Hague.

Skelos, the 68 - year - old former Senate Republican majority leader, was sentenced to seven years less in prison than former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a 72 - year - old Democrat, sentenced May 3 to 12 years in prison for pocketing about $ 4 million in kickbacks.

Unlike David Cameron and Gordon Brown, with whom it's possible to refer, en passant, to Bullingdon Club shenanigans, or a rugby injury, or a manse, and for nearly everyone to know what that might mean, all most people knew about Clegg (if they could name the leader of the Liberal Democrats at all) was perhaps that he had some European connections, though they weren't sure what, and maybe that he once told Piers Morgan he'd had 30 lovers (in fact, asked by Morgan whether he had slept with 30 women, Clegg replied: «It's a lot less than that» — not that that got in the way of a good story.)

After less than three months, Albany Legislator Gary Domalewicz may be about to lose his new role as majority leader as a push is under way for legislators to build up resources to make them more responsive to county citizens.

The nod from Flanagan would not necessarily be unusual if it weren't for the 2014 election in which Flanagan's predecessor as majority leader, Dean Skelos, was seen as less - than - enthusiastic about backing the party's nominee that year, then - Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

As readers will see, the Leader of the House dodged a question about Quentin Davies in a less than admirable manner, and was unable to resist yet another dig about all those years of «Tory rule».

The fluency with which Cameron speaks in front of his parents about empowerment contrasts with his less assured performance in Thursday's leaders» TV debate when he barely mentioned the Tories» big society.

Gillespie was much less reticent about DeLay, praising the former majority leader for his decision to permanently step down from leadership.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders huddled for nearly two hours with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday morning and left far less optimistic about budget progress than when they'd entered.

«The longer it takes the less likely there's going to be one,» Sen. John DeFrancisco, the Republican floor leader, said after a press conference about I - 81.

But the former education secretary sounded less sure about her own place in the party when she confessed it might might be «a bit of of a stretch» to stay on board if Rees Mogg became leader...

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb on Monday in a radio interview said he is not worried about having less money to bring to a gubernatorial race than businessman Harry Wilson, saying experience in state government matters, too.

Still, some African - American political leaders, particularly those who backed Bill Thompson, the only black candidate in the 2013 mayoral race, are less enthusiastic about Mr. de Blasio.

Business leaders are furious about the delay on airports, fearing ministers will plump for either a less controversial runway at Gatwick Airport which would have fewer economic benefits, or simply extend the second runway at Heathrow.

«Meanwhile, Labour supporters are less positive about their own leader, as Jeremy Corbyn's overall ratings fall to the lowest for a Labour leader since Ed Miliband in 2014.»

Speculating about whether the UK Labour leader's personality, history and apparent (lack of) strategy make this more or less likely.

We were here for the second leg of Labour frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn's four - city tour of Scotland, a place where he has much work to do if he wins the leadership election — and where Scottish Labour is about to announce its own new leader in a contest that has had much less attention than this one.

Mr Miliband said the plans were about «a relationship more with individual trade unionists and less about the relationship with trade union leaders».

«When the capillary is filled, we have a very precise volume of blood, about five microliters, which is less than a droplet — much less than what is required by other anemia tests,» explained Erika Tyburski, the paper's first author and leader of the undergraduate team that developed the device.

People are less trusting of other groups about this issue — just 13 % trust information from pharmaceutical industry leaders about the health effects of the MMR vaccines a lot.

I would argue that the film is much less about her innocence or guilt, and much more about the state of our country's leaders and the judicial system at the time of Lincoln's assassination.

Donald Sutherland remains a preening, gleefully and theatrically arch villain (though the less said about his rebellion counterpart Julianne Moore's performance the better), and Hutcherson puts in a strong, conflicted performance (Jennifer Lawrence, however, never seems entirely at home once she embraces the role of inspiring leader).

Fletcher is a brute, a bully and a born leader; comparisons have been made to R. Lee Ermey's Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in «Full Metal Jacket,» but another cinematic predecessor that springs to mind is Robert Duvall's Lt. Col. «Bull» Meechum in «The Great Santini» — a father - figure who cares less about the condition of his charges as they are than he cares about what they could be.

We can't do anything about the weather but to make risk assessments less of a nightmare, we normally e-mail group leaders a hazard information sheet for each site, together with the free entry permit which can also be used for a free familiarisation visit.

In less public settings, we've heard about leaders who got «too big for their britches.»

Here's a secret, operational leaders are less concerned about the cost of the initiative if you can relieve their performance pain.