Sentences with phrase «of as performers»

Many artists today routinely portray themselves in fictional, symbolic roles and speak of themselves as performers.

«It will be an amazing, family - friendly evening showcasing the talents of these individuals who often wouldn't be thought of as performers,» says Max Puhala, co-founder of Push Play Sing!

He's just such a lover of film, so the second he got on set we all just fell in love with him, both as a person but also we're in awe of him as a performer.

Think of yourself as a performer.

Not exact matches

For years, Harvard — once a top performer among universities, but in recent years an also - ran — pursued a «hybrid» approach, employing multiple teams of in - house investment managers as well many outside managers.

An independent events company responsible for organising one of Fringe World Festival's major venues has allegedly failed to pay about $ 200,000 owed to performers as it prepares for voluntary administration.

Arguably no performer connects on a more profound personal level with fans: Songs like «Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)» and «Run the World (Girls)» are anthems of female empowerment, and as her music has grown more complex and daring, her lyrics have become increasingly intimate, exploring themes like motherhood, marriage and sexuality with refreshing candor.

Decades of research now point to emotional intelligence as being the critical factor that sets star performers apart from the rest of the pack.

That's a lot of hard work only to end up as an average performer.

The proof is in the metrics: According to a study by Workboard, 69 percent of high - performing companies surveyed rated companywide communication of business goals as their leading tool for stacking a team of top performers.

The Ministry of Unification said that these funds will cover the costs of the visit, which will include accommodation and food for North Korea's cheering squad, orchestra, taekwondo performers, as well as for journalists and other supporting personnel.

In a New Yorker report, Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, calls on companies to reassess their values: «This includes rejecting the cult of the top performer, which tolerates otherwise unacceptable behavior, and instead building a culture that functions as the company's immune system: surfacing cases of abuse and identifying toxic elements as fast as possible, and then quickly rejecting them.»

Sure he played the Super Bowl and joined other legends in the Traveling Wilburys, but most of us, despite loving Petty's music and respecting him immensely as a performer, rarely thought about him when he was alive.

As Stulberg tells Science of Us, behavior scientist K. Anders Ericsson discovered in the 1990's that what separates great performers — musicians, artists, chess players, even physicians — from everyone else was not that they practiced more than their peers.

That helped make chip - maker Nvidia one of the best performers since Lehman filed for bankruptcy, and crowning streaming service Netflix as king.

Originally an engineer, her career took a pivotal turn when she accepted a job as executive assistant to the then - president of marketing — a developmental role for high - performers.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

The show — which was filmed last month at New York's Lexington Avenue Armory and featured performers Selena Gomez and The Weeknd, as well as Kendall Jenner and Gigi Haddid on the runway — is an important part of L Brands» (LB) efforts to keep its Victoria's Secret brand at the center of pop culture.

Decades of research now point to emotional intelligence as the critical factor that sets star performers apart from the rest of the pack.

A new generation of consumers is embracing western - style snap shirts, cowboy hats, boots and accessories, a trend inspired by the crossover success of bestselling country and Americana performers such as Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers, as well as prime - time TV hits like Nashville and Justified.

The London performers learned concepts essential to being an authentic Santa Claus such as remembering a child's name and age and remembering the names of all 12 reindeer.

On the other end of the spectrum, Pakistan fell from its perch as the top performer in the region at the end of last year.

Performers dressed as Santa Claus stand posed in a line during a photo call for the media for the Ministry of Fun Santa School outside the Ragged School Museum in east London on Nov. 16, 2017.

In fact, a study by Harvard Business Review found that 72 percent of employees rank recognition given for high performers as having a significant impact on employee engagement.

Most of the girls sing one song and the boys sing two, and even though I am sitting behind McKnight, you can tell he is pleased with certain performers as he nods his head emphatically to the beat of the music.

Theater groups such as Punchdrunk, Complicite, and Steppenwolf all find success by bringing together just the right mix of writers, performers, musicians, designers, marketers, and financiers to create dazzling works that no one could create alone.

In an age where managers are many times afraid to ask questions at the risk of being viewed as a «micro-manager,» we sometimes only know if we have a poor performer when the music stops.

In the middle of my sophomore year of college, I had a life - altering epiphany: I had spent the majority of my life thus far pursuing a career as a performer.

The 36 - year - old performer was joined on stage near Palm Springs, Calif. by dozens of musicians and dancers as well as her sister Solange Knowles, former Destiny's Child bandmates, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland, and her husband Jay - Z.

After the bubble burst in March 2000, small - cap companies became the better performers until 2002, as many of the large - caps that had enjoyed immense success during the 1990s hemorrhaged value amid the crash.

The young hackers used SSNDOB to collect data for exposed.su, a Web site that listed the SSNs, birthdays, phone numbers, current and previous addresses for dozens of top celebrities — such as performers Beyonce, Kanye West and Jay Z — as well as prominent public figures, including First Lady Michelle Obama, CIA Director John Brennan, and then - FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Credit unions seem to be the most innovative group, with 13.5 percent ranking as Top Performers compared to 7.4 percent of commercial banks and 3.7 percent of community banks.

«Nobody wants to be seen with me right now,» the performer, known as Stormy Daniels, said in a brief interview, laughing softly behind an assemblage of nude pictures of herself.

As I explored in my opening keynote talk at Content Marketing World — and in this follow - up blog post — one of the biggest differences we see between marketers who are top performers and those who aren't is level of commitment: 91 % of top performers are extremely or very committed to content marketing, compared to 63 % of the overall sample and 35 % of the bottom performers (those who characterized their overall content marketing approach as minimally or not at all successfulAs I explored in my opening keynote talk at Content Marketing World — and in this follow - up blog post — one of the biggest differences we see between marketers who are top performers and those who aren't is level of commitment: 91 % of top performers are extremely or very committed to content marketing, compared to 63 % of the overall sample and 35 % of the bottom performers (those who characterized their overall content marketing approach as minimally or not at all successfulas minimally or not at all successful).

Given that, the real surprise would have been if this week's crisis had never happened; culture is the accumulation of decisions, and Uber had long since decided that unacceptable behavior would be tolerated as long as the perpetrator was a «high performer».

Membrain is the only software named as a G2 Crowd High Performer in each of the CRM, Sales Performance Management, Sales Coaching and Sales Enablement categories.

It's one of the largest holdings in USCOX and has been a top performer of 2017, up 70 percent year - to - date as of August 7.

The fiduciary fund was ranked as one of the top 10 global performers in 2015, out of more than 1,000 multi-strategy funds worldwide.

As the price of gold rises to $ 1,500 and then well beyond, gold shares will likely be the best performers in the world.

For example, one company's annual leadership - development assessment of its top - level executives identifies «effectively dealing with problem performers» as a critical characteristic in determining who is given the highest performance rating.

A deeply musical dancer, after a 15 - or 20 - minute sequence, is said to fall into a duende, an intensely focused, trancelike state of transcendent emotion that Federico García Lorca in 1933 described as los sonidos negros («the dark sounds») invading the performer's body.

Commodities and Natural Resource Equities were some of the weaker performers in the first quarter as oil prices retreated by about 7.5 %.

RBC, the best performer of the big Canadian banks, announced Q2 earnings up 26 % as takeovers lifted their earnings.

If you take a look at the global corporate history, you will see that the large cap stocks, also known as Blue Chip stocks are by and far the most consistently high performers in the market, even when you average them across decades of performance data.

The lack of energy holdings in the list of dual - class shares does help but it is not without poor performers in the form of names such as Bombardier, Torstar and AGF Management.

Today financials as a group are not quite half that portion of the broad market and for a reason: large banks are horrible financial performers.

In fact, four MLP ETFs made the worst - performers list, as the industry faces a crisis of confidence.

Other sponsors are underwriting costs and offering services to our performers, such as PR and marketing time from Heather Wagner Reed of Juice Consulting, Catherine Mitchell of Conversation Piece PR, Darla Sees of Sees HR Consulting, Janifer Wheeler of Wheelhouse Learning Solutions and Grace Lanni of All About That Brand.

As the 16 % return suggests, there were a number of strong performers during the year, including Service Stream, South32, Jumbo Interactive (JIN) and the aforementioned MACA and GR Engineering.

As shown in the two charts below, of the ten S&P Select Sector indexes, the top and bottom performers in terms of -LSB-...]