Sentences with phrase «not understanding»

And he kept not understanding that, but not explaining himself either.

But my colleague's comment on clients not understanding the portfolio concept brought to mind another interesting experience in those meetings.

Brandgaard also played down the threat of an interloper, saying: «In terms of counter proposals it is not our understanding that any other bidder is pursuing the target.»

As Upton Sinclair said, «It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.»

I went into that venture not understanding that my role would have to shift.

«It's not my understanding that I gave orders for improper accounting,» he said, in a typical example of executive obfuscation.

Unlike enterprises that may have complex and expensive layers of security that protect them from outside infiltration, smaller companies probably use some kind of inexpensive antivirus protection software, not understanding it will only protect them from about 40 percent of threats.

You can lose a (potential) customer by not understanding how, where and what open source code is used in your IP.

This factor is identified by several other terms like not getting started, not understanding how to access the market, and not understanding the barriers to entry.

Just as directors don't want to work with demanding divas on - set, customers don't want to work with companies that are not understanding, irresponsible or otherwise difficult.

«The problem many companies have is not understanding the customer's point of view, only understanding their personal point of view in terms of what they want to accomplish.»

It's like playing chess and not understanding how the pieces move.

The current government has already flagged they don't understand the needs of the tech industry through the NBN policy decisions they have made and I genuinely hope this doesn't further extend to a «do nothing» approach in the upcoming budget and throughout the rest of their term.

«Between December 31 and January 1, there is no value lost for the kingdom,» al - Falih said, before adding: «So I don't understand this artificial deadline you refer to as being significant.»

He followed up Monday with a blog post in which he stated: «I don't understand how 43 % of the country supports Trump.

Lucas said that will drive the business to rely ever more on artificial intelligence, which is something most marketers don't understand.

Slack's chatbot, meant to serve as an office assistant, lets you know its limitations when it doesn't understand something: «Sometimes I have an easier time with a few simple keywords.»

For whatever reason, the cab driver appeared to be irritated by the mere look of me, rolled her eyes at the address I gave her and grumbled comments to herself that I could not understand.

I didn't understand the game, and I really didn't know what I was doing.

We started pitching VCs in the winter of 2014, but the first two dozen of them — primarily affluent white men who lived in New York or California and shopped at Whole Foods — didn't understand what we were trying to do.

«Even though I don't understand all the technical aspects of what we build, I try to focus on the user experience,» he says.

If you don't understand the financial statements, hire someone else to do them and to teach you what to look for.

I hired a website consultant to help me with the technology I didn't understand, as well as consultant to help me further structure my business.

I understood why they wanted to change it up, but they didn't understand why I didn't.

Many small - business owners are stressed about cash flow because they don't understand how banks assess whether they're a good bet.

A practical engineer, he couldn't understand why anyone would use a device like the original iPhone, which died after a few hours.

Judging by my Twitter feed, most foreign observers simply can not understand why a man serving his country in one of its highest and most sensitive positions should step down over something that happened in his private life - something that directly affects only those involved and their families.

We can not understand the true meaning of an interaction if we do not have the ability to interpret these nonverbal signals.

They came in with a product the Sharks didn't understand and tried to raise at a valuation higher than any other company to appear on Shark Tank ever had.

She may have not understood the science that makes smiling such a valuable business asset, but she no doubt observed good things when she expressed a genuine smile.

Crabill says they fall into three categories: disgruntled 35 - 45 year olds (like me) who see cable as a fundamental rip - off and now refuse to pay for it; low - income or penny pinching folks who decide they can't afford $ 100 cable bills; millennials who like TV, but don't understand why people would sign up for a cable contract in the first place.

«They said, «Apart from the fact that improper reproduction of the DNA molecule causes genetic disease and deformities, we haven't understood anything else,»» says Mitra, who published his findings in the British Journal of Educational Technology last year.

One of the most unfortunate aspects of a transition such as this is when your incoming boss doesn't understand the nature of the business, customer needs or your respective role.

JetBlue got top marks for its US frequent flyer program, but most travelers don't understand how frequent flyer programs work.

Whatever they bring the table, or try to, they're not living through it right now, so they really just don't understand.

«I'm highly skeptical of somebody who has been too long at a big company because they simply don't understand that [at a startup] there is no job definition — you do whatever it takes,» Zafar says.

While there's nothing wrong with outsourcing, if you don't understand the medium and establish it yourself, you won't know if your efforts are working or if your investments are paying off.

Competitors couldn't understand why a bookseller would allow such a thing.

Almost everyone can name a simple rule — one of the most famous is Warren Buffett's mantra that he won't invest in anything he doesn't understand — but such rules can be difficult to uncover and learn, even though, in retrospect, they can seem blindingly obvious.

But what most outsiders don't understand (along with a lot of prospective hires on the other side of the conversation) is just how personally the entrepreneur takes the compensation negotiations.

«What a lot of people don't understand is when investors invest in founders, it's really a long relationship,» she says.

This means literally beginning the book with a hook line, even if the reader doesn't understand how the line is relevant to the book.

He says he's been derided as American short seller who doesn't understand the Canadian market, a shark looking to make a quick buck by destroying the reputation of an upstanding firm.

Because it's a unique workout experience that «non-crossfitters» maybe wouldn't understand.

Dumping them out in the dead of summer with only friendly academics to support them suggests that the government did not understand what lay further down the track.

The company is not very tech - savvy and doesn't understand how easy it is to get a personalized email address

Or, «they just don't understand my vision.»

But I always used to remind them that Einstein said: «If you can't explain it to a six - year - old, you don't understand it yourself.»

Many business owners don't understand how small business insurance works, and how to budget for it correctly.

The Rogers CEO says guests will sometimes ambush him with their wireless bill at a dinner party, complaining «I don't understand.»