Sentences with phrase «more than talent»

In a recent New York Times op - ed, President of the Ford Foundation Darren Walker critiqued America's current culture of unpaid internships — which he believes creates a system where «contacts and money matter more than talent [and] contributes to an economy in which access and opportunity go to the people who already have the most of both.»

Marcus Gora, the Public Relations Director of the gallery, said artists needed much more than talent to be successful.

Companies that do not have a succession plan in place in which their seasoned professionals are teaching the younger, less experienced generations risk losing far more than talent.

Lerner's approach is that she understands writers, with all their angst, writer's block, and depression, and that it takes more than talent to succeed in the business.

-- Leonard G. Goss, Senior Acquisitions Editor / Trade Book Publishing, B & H Publishing Grou Writers who are serious about getting published need more than talent.

He also believes that hard work, far more than talent or innate propensities, produces success.

It may be the sign of excellent direction more than talent at such a tender age, but Onata Aprile gives a superb performance as Maisie.

Science journalism is a highly competitive field, but formal training, while a good idea, isn't essential, and you don't have to have an advanced degree: You can succeed with little more than talent, audacity, and a bachelor's degree.

Why he needs them: To be the best takes more than talent and technique.

Attitude matters more than talent, if you haven't learned that then you don't watch PL that often or you're a WOB bandwagonner.

The UCL is more than talent in a team.

There are games (lots of them) where experience will count more than talent.

What I, and millions of others, loved most about her — more than her talent, grace and backhand — was how she radiated joy.

If you want to reach the lofty heights of your favorite dining experiences, then you need more than talent.

A growing body of evidence from academia, science, and the business world shows that more than talent, intellect, or financial resources, grit and its component traits of guts, resilience, initiative, and tenacity are the key to achieving our goals.

More than talent or luck, grit is what makes the true difference in whether or not you succeed.

The Pygmalion studies — and there are hundreds — indicate the degree to which leadership may matter more than talent.

Not exact matches

Canada's tech industry is said to be suffering from a talent shortage; by 2020, more than 200,000 positions will be unfilled, according to the Information and Communications Technology Council.

At Egon Zehnder, we have learned in much of our work with many of the leading Chinese tech giants and startup unicorns what type of talent is likely to thrive in China, which prioritizes the more nuanced «soft» skills of adaptability, flexibility, and potential rather than simply the «hard» skills of language fluency and past work experiences.

Just remember, in the end, you want your talents and contributions at work to stand out more than your quirks.

I've said before that I'm not even sure that most CEOs should be doing any hiring for their businesses, but he says that there's nothing more important to the future of Morningstar than attracting and retaining top talent.

Jobs believed more in his own talent, in his ability to learn and persevere and overcome obstacles, than he did in conventional wisdom, the status quo, and what other people thought.

Their employees volunteered about 188,000 hours in communities in 47 countries, with more than 40 % of their time spent devoted to providing their unique talents and abilities (skills - based volunteering).

Megyn Kelly is now not only one of the highest - paid female TV anchors, she also reportedly makes more than any on - air talent at NBC following the termination of her colleague, longtime Today Show co-host Matt Lauer.

Home to as many as 7,000 start - ups and more than 40 unicorns — businesses with a valuation of more than $ 1 billion — opportunity and talent abound in the sprawling megacity.

Now in its 16th year, the programme attracts more than 80 entrants across all industries and showcases the acute business acumen of our state's professional talent.

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking at Canada for top talent and a cost - competitive advantage over the United States.

These three entrepreneurs prove there's more than one way to attract top talent.

team, Barcelona boasts much more than athletic talent.

Wozny says she always wears heels to work at a talent management agency (at least two inches but never more than four).

So, when managing Facebook — and recruiting for talent to bring to the team — she looks for people who have more natural demonstrated skill than simply an arsenal of past experience.

Anders argues harnessing an abundance of talent before it becomes «a minefield of petulance, frustration and selfishness» is even more challenging than spotting skill and character in the first place.

This positive feedback cycle may be a lot more powerful than anyone's ability to pick talent.

There can be thousands of people smarter, faster, more connected and more talented than I am, but I know that my passion can go further toward achieving my goals — especially when those who are used to coasting on talent or privilege may not be as driven or focused.

Many major university endowments pay multiple members of investment teams more than $ 1 million as they need to recruit the investing world's top talent.

Mitra and Tayeb set up shop in this country because they thought this was where the most creative talent resided (they employ more than a hundred in the U.S.) and because they believed they would get a fair shot, even though neither was born here and one of them is Muslim.

Team development and growth is critical to every business, and retaining top talent, more important than ever.

That solution might be a little more high - tech than necessary, but you need to do something beyond simply providing career opportunities to your high - potential talent.

Combine this insatiable demand for talent with a sub-cultural shift of regarding labels such as «nerd» and «dweeb» as positive indicators of nuanced passion rather than pariah - like brands, and you end up with many more people interested in coding.

The company has more people on the in - house talent team than they do working in sales — seven people working full time in recruiting and roughly an additional 12 people who devote a quarter of their jobs to recruiting.

A new study by LinkedIn surveyed more than 13,000 Millennial job seekers to find out what it takes to get them to work for you, and offers some insights into the lengths some employers are going to need to go to hire the best talent from this generation.

Dr. John Sullivan, an HR thought leader and former chief talent officer for Agilent Technologies, has recommended stay interviews for more than 20 years.

And with just 46 million Gen X behind them, as compared with more than 70 million Millennials, the talent gap will require hiring from the youngest generation in the work force.

It's very difficult to see how we can meet the technology workforce needs if we're literally leaving more than half of the available talent pool sitting on the bench.»

Rice would argue that it's a waste of Griffith's talent to limit himself to a single project, because true innovation involves far more misses than hits.

Angela defines talent as the quality that enables individuals to get better at something more rapidly than their peers.

Training new employees can also become more costly than simply retaining your top talent, so to put it bluntly, it's a no - brainer.

Tanking is obviously an inexact science, and has much more to do with lineup construction and the allocation of playing time than anything else — players are professional athletes, and convincing them to lose on purpose to bring younger, cheaper new talent to their franchise isn't exactly a great sell.

You also can't change their talents any more than you can change their height (though you can teach them that talent is overrated).