Sentences with phrase «on bad teams»

Myth 3: Conflict Only Happens on Bad Teams The truth is that even the most productive teams have conflict.

They don't bet on bad teams, it's just the nature of the beast.

Baylor ascended near the top of the BCS with their incredible offense beating up on bad teams.

Nobody likes betting on bad teams.

We've had great players on bad teams and bad players on great teams.

There are great pitchers on bad teams all around the league who have.500 or below win / loss ratios.

This would require a massive overhaul and would also punish players stuck on bad teams like the browns.

The logic: The Ravens opened their 2017 season with a 20 - 0 win over the Bengals and continued to beat up on bad teams all season.

«He played in Chip (Kelly)'s system last year and went 16 - 4 (TD - to - INT ratio) on a bad team.

He was all but traded at one point and then he uttered the phrase that seemingly would be affixed to his basketball tombstone: «I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team.»

Making a bad FA signing is not the end of the world, having several FA signings who are not playing or contributing to this team is a big deal on a bad team.

David Lee went for 22 points and 18 rebounds, and the Warriors dominated the boards, 54 - 37, and locked down defensively on the worst team in the league.

He started seven games for the Boilers as a true freshman that year, and though his numbers weren't much good on a bad team, at least he earned the job.

That's why they kept Craig Kimbrel, even though a closer on a bad team is like a nice Le Creuset dutch oven in a filthy kitchen filled with roaches and licorice.

«At City Hall, Bill Shea — who was lionized in New York — made a speech in which he apologized for the players,» recalls Richie Ashburn, the centerfielder who would be dubiously distinguished at season's end, named as the Most Valuable Player on the worst team of this century.

Richie Ashburn, Most Valuable Player on the worst team of this century, has returned to Chicago to broadcast a Phillie game.

OEL played a crap game last night but he is a skilled player stuck on a bad team.

Valentine fancies himself as a guy that can ball handle as well as shoot and because he's on a bad team he thinks he's Allen Houston.

The new system makes it tougher on worse teams to land the No. 1 overall pick and gives better teams a slightly better chance to land a higher pick.

And ideally would get less than $ 15M per — but I am predicting a future that is authored by the idiots in the front office — so I expect his deal with look something like $ 19M — $ 18M — $ 17M — my hope is that they don't throw in the fourth season at $ 20M and / or they don't match some nonsense max contract from Brooklyn (or whoever)... as I note, I see Lavine is a net negative player who could put up impressive numbers on a bad team — good for the tank.

One the toughest things about Fading the Public is that you continually have to bet on the worst teams.

To pay other bad, low - salary players to play on a bad team this year AND have a worse defense?

Buy: Larsson - I don't know if the Sabres will be able to trade the worst player on the worst team so I think they will just end up buying out Larry.

Not exact matches

And after the closed - door match, he wept on camera, saying it had been the worst day of his professional life, and threatening to quit the Spanish national team.

«Worst day» answers tell whether a person is a team player — if their response focuses on what went wrong without taking any ownership, there is a good chance they won't thrive in a collaborative environment.»

So, while managers of sales teams give lip service to learning experiences derived from failure, that speech isn't going to help the low - earning salesperson who's on probation (or worse, fired) or even the whole team.

When changing course, the last thing you want to do is set the team off on a wild goose chase or take a situation from bad to worse.

If you want to find out why your team is dissatisfied to be a better leader, work on building trust and being equally open to both good and bad news.

«A bad management team can ruin an idea, but a good management team can always improve an idea if the market is moving on it,» he says.

Many of the CEOs and leadership teams I have worked with over the years have fallen into the same trap: they get overly focused on selling their company to a strategic or financial acquirer or worse, going public.

So we've put together a guide to help you find good material on team management — and avoid the bad.

Being a nice human and asking them to join you for lunch isn't a bad place to start, but there's plenty more expert advice on how to combat loneliness on a team or organization - wide level on offer in the complete HBR post as well.

The InfoPosse — Inc's team of crack corporate librarians — reports each month on what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of corporate information.

A contingency plan is a plan based on the worst - case scenario that you can imagine your business surviving — loss of market share, heavy price competition, defection of a key member of your management team.

On a team, getting personal is not always a bad thing.

It's difficult for them to play the game if the team bus is always breaking down, if bad press is destroying morale, or if the doctor you have on staff is too busy running his private practice to be around.

The worst missteps were former CEO Ron Johnson's focus in 2012 on a failed re-imagining of the 114 - year - old retailer into a hipper store, along with the ill - advised separation of Penney's e-commerce and stores teams, a strategy that flew in the face of every other retailer's efforts.

To avoid bad but vaguely plausible start - up ideas — what the Y Combinator team calls sitcom ideas, i.e., the kind of ideas TV writers would make up if a character on a show had a start - up — choose something that some people want a lot rather than something lots of people might sort of want a little.

The Results For Listia, «bad users» with suspicious scores, such as those using multiple e-mail addresses to get the first - time free credit, or people who post items on the marketplace that they don't actually own, are highlighted by Sift and tracked by the Listia team, or banned outright.

Meetings often get a bad reputation in startups, but gathering with your team frequently can keep a project on track and resolve issues quickly.

If there's infighting on your team, or your customers are saying your product is bad, then that's a red flag.

According to the Gallup results, the worst performer on the team sets the team's standards.

Worse, though Rafael and Elizabeth remained on the same team after their painful exchange, Elizabeth chafed under the status change and three months later transferred out of the project.

On a day like Friday, when a hurricane is coming, Warner said the Waffle House team gets its jump teams into position to prepare for the worst.

Nowadays, being on the field as the team's statistician is an especially welcome respite from a parent's worst nightmare.

The sentiment seemed widespread on tech and media Twitter: there was a lack of specificity in terms of questions about privacy (this allowed Zuckerberg to turn nearly every question about the ownership of data to a discussion about user interface controls that limit where data is shown to other Facebook users), plenty of dodged questions (every time there was a question about the data Facebook generates about users beyond what they themselves enter into the system Zuckerberg needed to «check with his team»), and bad questions that presumed Facebook sells data, letting Zuckerberg run out the clock at least three times by explaining the basics of Facebook's business model (this is precisely why I have been so outspoken about the problem of perpetrating this falsehood: it lets Facebook off the hook).

His insistence on his own management team could be seen as his way of ensuring the best possible execution of a bad combination.

For a relatively low cost an integrated team could investigate and prosecute tax fraud, money laundering, and make recommendations on strengthening our tools for detecting and prosecuting bad apples in the B.C. real estate sector.

During this year's Natural Products Expo West, the NOSH team sought out five natural food founders, from newcomers to seasoned vets, to get the low - down on the best — and worst — advice they have ever received.

Studies have shown that soldiers form strong bonds during missions in part because they believe in the purpose of the mission, rely on each other, and share the good and the bad as a team.