Sentences with phrase «on changing people»

«It turns out that if you actually supply a number that quantifies the consensus, it has a really strong impact on changing people's perceptions.»

He's been looking at the messaging on climate change — as in, which message has the biggest impact on changing people's minds about the issue.

Seven years ago, she came into the shelter out of the field and focused on changing people's perceptions of the shelter.

:... So the one thing I say to people, whenever you're implementing change, is that you have to understand how to manage complex change — you have to have the evidence, you have to have the tools, to not only drive change on data, but you also have to have the tools to drive change on changing people's mindset and changing people's culture.

The authors of the study, from Shaanxi Normal University in China and York University in Canada, say to maximize this effect media reports should focus on changing people's behavior in an epidemic.

«If we don't do something very aggressively on changing people's habits in regards to passenger vehicles, we're not going to be able to come close to meeting our greenhouse gas reduction goals,» Ting said in an interview.

Behavioral therapy focuses on changing a person's unhealthy and problematic behaviors, actions, and responses.

Not exact matches

And, that could be anything from, are there other people from the university that I attend who work here, could I talk to them, to what does it look like to change jobs in a couple years after I've been successful on my first project, to how long do people stay in this office?

Polish scientists have shown that male and female preferences for a height difference (known scientifically as sexual dimorphism) change based on how tall they are, perhaps so that people can widen their own dating pool.

On a broader level, he will be seen as just one of many who stood at the forefront of a broad cultural change, one that eventually affected the health and lives of millions of people.

You can also get people's feedback and make changes to your product before you put it out on the market.

The two CEOs hope that the changes resulting from the merger will be implemented over the next couple of years, creating a «dramatic change» for consumers in which the store will be «not just about products, but also service offerings that can help people on their path to better health.»

If you'd like someone else to pick up the order: You can add or change an alternate pickup person on the order details page by editing the «Delivery» section.

Zuckerberg says that «by making these changes, I expect the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement will go down.»

Especially with some of the changes that Facebook plans to roll out in the future, such as prioritizing family and friends» posts on people's newsfeeds.

People can and do change based on both immediate circumstance and broader changes in the context of their lives.

Organizational change may start at the top, but it involves every person on the team.

Audiences» changing viewing habits are likely one reason for the declining ratings for live award shows like the Oscars, as more and more people cut ties with the cable packages that are often required to watch such programs either on TV or online.

But, on first glance, it appears that the new draft bill won't do much to change the Congressional Budget Office's initial assessments that tens of millions of people would lose coverage and that costs would spike substantially for people who are old, poor, or sick (or all three).

Toronto's CEO - turned mayor on how tech is transforming cities: «Why should the job of people in public life... be to try and stop change?»

When I was selling video - on - demand, when I left Rogers it was deemed to be a revolutionary product that was going to change the way people watched, and guess what?

While not every company can literally change people's lives, your business can have a positive influence on your customers» lives.

But Little insists, and this new research supports, that people's personalities can and do change based on circumstances and passion.

He also hosts the The Chaos Cast, a weekly podcast where Jeff shares inspiring life lessons on how to navigate change, unpredictability and chaos, along with actionable steps to help you grow as person, as a team, and as a business.

Either way, the policy change will adversely affect the middle class, Trudeau contends: «They're raising costs on everyday items for an awful lot of people.»

Davidson recommends using www.finra.org: «Type your adviser's name into the FINRA database and you'll learn what securities licenses this person actually has and, even more important, whether or not any complaints, disciplinary actions, suspensions, or very frequent changes of employment appear on his or her record... You'll want to see a completely clean record... Even a single complaint, and certainly any disciplinary action, is a major red flag.»

The update will have large implications for Facebook — Zuckerberg expects people to spend less time on the platform — but businesses and publishers will bear the brunt of the change.

So on the days when it seems really too hard for me to keep going I think about all of the people whose lives have been changed by the work.

But regardless of which side you lean toward, there are entrepreneurs leading the way in social impact, people like Joshua Schukman, founder of Social Change Nation, an organization focused on bringing together entrepreneurs from around the world who are making an impact while still making a profit.

While investors will have to find stocks with higher yields, pay more for them and take on more risk in bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that people will need to set aside more of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement income.

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

You'd think that even in these crazy times of radical change most people would have learned to stick with what has worked for them — at least until it doesn't work any longer — and also to hang on to the advisors, the tools and the techniques that got them to where they are.

People only think that they always want the neatest and newest thing on the block until they remember that «new» also means changes, anxiety, learning curves, resistance, incremental costs, discomfort, etc..

Based on a comparison of the change in subjective well - being of these people and of people from the control group who had no change in their volunteer status, the hypothesis is supported that volunteering is rewarding in terms of higher life satisfaction.

On top of that, the actual hormone levels of people changed dramatically.

Legislation to do this would change the rules on immigration, allocating a larger share of green cards to people who qualify on the basis of education and skills and fewer to foreign relatives of US citizens and residents.

«With respect to diversity, we can focus on numbers, which are important, but equally important is changing the archetype of what people believe an engineer looks like,» she said.

Same technique as the previous two, but this one goes back in time for the other person to reflect on something pivotal that may have changed the course of his or her life.

But we also knew we'd have to change people's negative perceptions (real or not) of being on a certain street or in a certain area.

«And at the heart of these arrangements, there should be a clear double lock: A guarantee that there will be a period of implementation giving businesses and people alike the certainty that they will be able to prepare for the change; and a guarantee that this implementation period will be time - limited, giving everyone the certainty that this will not go on for ever,» the prime minister stated.

What has changed, however, is that people now spend significant portions of their time on and within social networks built around their interests and relationships.

The focus on where the future is going is always focused on tech but the real challenge is talent and agility, which means keeping your people in a constant state of evolution, changing with your market quick enough to beat the trends.

I wonder, if the employee with the habit of excessive on - the - job masturbation had been male, would people's reaction change from giggles to disgust?

A more recent change, Zuckerberg detailed on Tuesday, involves letting people delete a history of the websites they may have visited from Facebook as well as the cookies companies use to track people across multiple sites.

I like the challenge of coming in, finding an issue and coming up with a solution, working with people to get the change in place, and then moving on.

«Based on any changes that might happen, I anticipate that what our partners would need would be fellows to help them navigate those changes and navigate how they will respond in order to continue serving people as best they can,» she says.

«Just like anything on the Internet, there is a bit of a learning curve, but the Internet is changing fast, and people learn faster than you would expect,» Wardi says.

Mobius said this policy change could have a positive or negative investment impact, depending on how peoples» lives are influenced and how the economy develops.

While the sample dynamic may change with people waiting longer to get married and more women entering the data pool, Savor is optimistic the results on the relationship between status and risk - taking will stay constant.

Most people are wary of change, and know that new technologies take time to learn and stabilize, so customers prefer solutions based on tried - and - tested proven technologies.