Sentences with phrase «other than your skill»

Instead, find one in which customers come to you based upon something other than your skill, such as your location.

When we break down the movements and needs of a rugby league player I believe the most important elements other than skill and fitness are:

Not exact matches

Confident people are good conversationalists, but it's a skill that some people need to practice more than others.

Rather than seeking others to develop their ideas, founders would provide their startups with big benefits if they could rely upon their own fundamental coding skills.

You need to fill your needed roles, sometimes faster than others, so we must make trade - offs between choosing someone with the right skills today versus the ability to do the role and much more in the future.

With access to growing markets, a skilled talent pool and comparatively lower living costs than the Valley and its other Western counterparts, East Asian cities are stepping up to win over entrepreneurs.

Those who passed the emotion recognition test with flying colors «are considered more socially and politically skilled than others by their colleagues.

As often as not, they're no more advanced and informed in terms of their people strengths and skills than they are in any of the other areas of operating and growing a business.

Other than «middle class economics» there was no economic concept that this summer received more press than the «skills gap.»

Put simply the reason that some project managers are more successful than others is that they possess greater skills in the areas of communication and organization, bring a wealth of experience to the table and are committed to their work.

Turns out it's true: artists are considerably more satisfied with their work than non-artists — even though the pay tends to be considerably lower than in other skilled fields.

The CEOs also see acquiring foreign language skills to be beneficial, and most of them believe having Chinese language skills is more important than fluency in other languages, such as Spanish or Japanese.

For social entrepreneurs, it's often just as difficult to hire other employees who may have skills or experience beyond yours, but that's no different than a for - profit entrepreneur building a team.

A successful entrepreneur masters one skill that is more important than all others: Making money.

There are many skills and traits that form a good leader, some of which I'm admittedly more competent in than others.

DraftKings and other daily fantasy sites, including FanDuel, are able to charge money to enter contests and skirt online gambling laws because they're considered games of skill rather than luck.

Those who apply well - honed self - awareness and self - management skills tolerate change much more successfully than others.

But here is the greatest misunderstanding: «Imagine a world where people could contribute the skills that inspire them - teaching, tutoring, urban farming, cleaning up the environment, painting murals - rather than telemarketing or whatever other stupid tasks bosses need done to supplement their millions.»

But that's why there are so many successful companies in the world: Each one has a special skill that it does better than any other company.

Other than the common generic responsibilities the requirements define what the person hired needs to have in terms of skills, education and experience.

«I often see highly skilled open - source professionals being able to command 10 - 15 percent higher salaries than other professionals without open - source experience.»

Netflix and Hastings have probably gained more attention for their approach to managing talent than for any other management skill.

An advantage for entrepreneurs looking to make a social impact is that rural - outsourcing work is more challenging and rewarding for skilled workers than many other local options.

It's calculated that after two years of use, one - third of a pillow's weight is dead skill cells, dead dust mites, and other less - than - desirable leftovers.

«We spend more than virtually any other country on public investments and job training and skills development, and yet we have unacceptably high levels of unemployment amongst young Canadians, aboriginal Canadians, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities,» he said.

Gary Hoover and Patrick Spain have collaborated on no fewer than five businesses, and with each new venture they've found a fresh way to complement each other's skills.

Employers are adopting resilience training for their employees at a rate faster than any other intervention in the United States.1 Resilience — the ability to use positive mental skills to remain psychologically steady and focused when faced with challenges or adversity — contributes substantially to how workers deal with stress and perform at work.2, 3 Employers are developing resilience to achieve a competitive advantage, similar to how the military trains active duty soldiers and their family members to withstand challenges.4, 5

Job seekers reported being exposed to skills testing and assessments in their candidate experience more than any other recruiting technology, but it is also the technology they would least like to see the in the future.

No employer shall «discriminate between the sexes in the payment of wages for work of comparable character, the performance of which requires comparable skills» or «pay wages or other compensation to any employee at a rate greater than that at which the employer pays wages to employees of a protected class for work of comparable character»

I developed investing skills learning from people who were far smarter than I was, like Doug Casey, Jim Rogers, Robert Kiyosaki, Tim Price, Tim Staermose, and countless others.

The New York Times recently highlighted the long - term impact difficult schedules can have on family wellness, in an article called: «A growing body of research suggests that a child's language and problem - solving skills may suffer as a result of their parents» problematic schedules, and that they may be more likely than other children to smoke and drink when they're older.»

In other words, it makes sense for many countries to tap into existing international markets, rather than trying to develop all elements of capital markets within their own borders — particularly given the high costs in terms of skilled manpower and other resources involved in establishing some capital markets.

In another study, Kabacoff noted that 60,000 managers and executives in more than 140 countries rated a strategic approach to leadership as more effective than other skills like innovation, persuasion, communication, and results orientation.

We've been talking recently about the lack of persistence in active investment management: Funds that perform well one year are no more likely than others to perform well the next year, suggesting to uncharitable observers that good performance is more a matter of chance than of replicable predictable skill.

It also doesn't share data with skill developers (essentially the thing that got Facebook in hot water over Cambridge Analytica) other than «what they need to execute on the skills,» according to Brun.

The use of game metrics allow skill - based gaming and playing smarter than others.

Other than that, I enjoy reading, acting, learning new skills and trying new foods.

Dividend Growth Investing works to build both your passive income and your net worth, can be more reliable than other investing methods, requires less time, and can be performed by anyone with sufficient discipline and basic math skills.

If you earned your millions from a career or business other than the stock market, give yourself skills a chance to catch up to your wallet.

Hence, the gateway economy is about fostering secondary industries, attracting head office activity, building commercial clusters around the gateway, and creating an environment which captures the experience, skills and networks of the people coming through our ports, rather than simply facilitating their passage to other destinations.

In this setting, even the skills of the young prove irrelevant because, relative to the context, they represent something other than what produces results.

Like my dad did with me, I am making sure that no matter what other education they receive in their lives, that they are well equipped with life skills that at the least are capable of providing for their needs without any employment at all, other than self.

Lewis knew his skill was writing, and once that tidal wave of wonder washed over him, he saw no other way to express his gratitude, passion and hope than to devote his entire life to writing about it.

It is curious that the early days of clinical pastoral education, which has done more than any other movement to foster the present knowledge and skill in pastoral care, actually relied only in part upon interviewing methods and yet made the interview image dominant as the ideal.

They could be spending time with their kids, learning a skill, and leaving a legacy behind that is something other than fighting a symbol that brings others peace.

They also suggest the plight of senior ministers who've been given no resources for handling a staff other than whatever people skills they happen to have.

The fact that this activity is carried out with others is one reason for designating it as a specific type of justice; it requires a broader range of social skills than do acts of individual justice.

«We are skilled at de-coding advertisements... yet we are embarrassed by the suggestion that landscape might be anything other than a literal record.»

You don't have anything to say to the words I am placing in front of you other than personal attacks, which means your position is weak and you lack the skills to reason beyond what you've been told by someone else.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.