Launching a crowdfunding campaign for a cooler in December was a bit of
an error in judgement, said Grepper.
As a result, this will reduce waste as it will mean fewer
errors in the quality of your service or product.
Target believed the problems other retailers faced were due to
errors in data conversion.
Every day for roughly nine hours straight, I gaze deeply into a monitor while either writing, editing, or scanning articles carefully for tiny
errors in punctuation.
The company provides software and connected hardware that reduces operator
errors in crude oil testing.
However, it's important to point out here that this company didn't necessarily
error in what they did (i.e. building a plant in a tsunami inundation zone).
For example, Silver argues that a number of factors had more to do with the media's misunderstanding of what was happening during the election than any alleged
errors in polling.
That's time consuming and there is a much higher chance of
errors in the calculations.
Many polls, such as those from the Pew Research Center, bury the margin of
error in the fine print.
No brand wants to be the one that failed to ride a consumer wave because it wasn't willing to spend the equivalent of a rounding
error in research costs.
Unfortunately, now
your error in judgment created anger, concern, and embarrassment.
If your misstep was the result of
an error in analysis or a failure to learn relevant facts, then this is indeed the right course of action.
In other words, those who make fewer
errors in their emails are more detail - oriented, which means that they'll make fewer mistakes with their overall responsibilities.
Indeed, it takes longer to fix the mistakes you make when you're moving too quickly than it does to avoid
those errors in the first place by taking the necessary precautions.
President Donald Trump has not even been in office a month yet and has already made some egregious
errors in his professional communications.
And for the very largest businesses, the resources are never enough to prevent
all errors in protection.
In Facebook's case, the issue is complicated by the fact that the social network has repeatedly had to admit
errors in its audience - measurement analytics, including over-estimating video views for more than two years.
Schatz has teamed up with Elizabeth Warren (D - Massachusetts) and Claire McCaskill (D - Missouri) to re-introduce a bill Monday — it was called the Stop
Errors in Credit Use and Reporting (SECURE) Act when it was last introduced, in 2015 — to help Americans catch and correct credit report errors.
Frito - Lay discovered
their error in 2007 and took the necessary steps to retroactively classify their products under the correct code 1905.90.90.10 «[c] orn chips and similar crisp snack foods.»
That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic
error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.
«That's a rounding
error in Texas» budget,» said economist Frederick Floss, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a New York - based think tank that has researched the issue of immigration and state economics.
When asked whether he would make different choices if he could start over, Bayard Winthrop, the CEO of apparel company American Giant, highlighted the value of his past
errors in judgment.
Savvy leaders like Apple's Eddy Cue are willing to correct
errors in judgment when contractors like Taylor Swift draw attention to unfair corporate policies.
The Centre cited
errors in Petro - Chem's analysis, and found no evidence connecting phenomena observed on the Kerr's farm with the CCS effort.
The government also laid out a number of ways to improve the accuracy and operation of the credit scoring companies to prevent or fix
the errors in the reports that lenders use to assess borrowers» creditworthiness and set rates.
The government revised construction data from January 2005 through October 2015 because of a «processing
error in the tabulation of data.»
As the paper indicates, companies often struggle with proper tariff classification as «the 2001 Report of the Auditor General of Canada revealed that 29 percent of tariff classifications provided by importers were incorrect, with 48 of the 53 companies examined making at least one
error in classification».
They get beat up by high fees and taxes, and knocked down by their own
errors in judgment.
Spelling mistakes or grammatical
errors in your blog take away from your credibility and make your blog appear amateurish.
Company e-sites with
errors in content, structure, or navigation have the capacity to plunge businesses far behind their competitors and obliterate painstaking calculations of return on investment.
And an amazingly quantitative study performed by Cornell University directly correlates room temperature to the amount of
errors in a given task.
The worse
error in Soros book was not being too bold.
My company, Liberty Tax Service, offers free consultations, so I have seen the following
errors in past tax returns.
The analysis said
the errors in the story stemmed from the failure of several experienced editors to recognize problems with the reporting of the piece.
Especially after they made a similar
error in 2007, when stores were forced to recall a range of handbags which were embroidered with green swastikas.
These employees have 37 percent higher absenteeism, 49 percent more work - related accidents and 60 percent more
errors in their work.
Oversights such as forgetting to supply a new customer with the correct forms or making
an error in pricing can hurt any company's profitability.
On the other hand, security firm Solutionary's Chief Security Strategist Jon Heimerl notes that some things won't change: «We will see
errors in operating systems, configuration errors or lapses,
errors in applications, and
errors in judgment by people who fall for social engineering attacks.
I've faced adversity and have also made my share of off - the - cuff
errors in judgment.
As Herndon - Ash - Pollin puts it: «A coding
error in the RR working spreadsheet entirely excludes five countries, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, and Denmark, from the analysis.
By breaking up workplace homogeneity, you can allow your employees to become more aware of their own potential biases — entrenched ways of thinking that can otherwise blind them to key information and even lead them to make
errors in decision - making processes.
To avoid being fooled, look for spelling
errors in the description of the app (a major red flag), and never click on pop - up advertising in an app.
Circuit City, a former consumer - electronics retailer that went bankrupt in 2008, made a similar
error in 2007 that helped hasten its demise.
Of course, they still do, but investors today are beginning to become keenly aware of the virtues and values of entrepreneurs who have made catastrophic
errors in their professional pasts.
It was a such an obvious
error in negotiation tactics, that it seemed impossible that the author of the Art of the Deal could have done it.
«A human
error in labeling occurred.»
But at the end of the day, she writes, «these are rounding
errors in the ecosystem.»
If
an error in understanding does happen, check to see if you have the right communication tools in place.
Editor's note: Due to
an error in Challenger, Gray & Christmas» data, a previous version of this story incorrectly included DuPont on a list of the 10 biggest layoffs of 2015.
It wasn't a problem in the people; instead it was
an error in operations.