Not exact matches
The best advice I have received and believe in is to hire great
people, share your vision for the company, provide clear
direction and expectations, then
get out of the way so they can do their best work.
The exact goals vary from
person to
person - in late»90s Gates once famously used his week to
get his head around the emerging trend of the internet - but all commentators seem to agree that the experience is a great way to set your
direction.
Takeaway: The
person who makes the first offer
gets to control the psychological range of the haggling, much as the
person making the first move in chess
gets to set the initial
direction of the game.
People want to know that they can
get direction and feedback when challenges arise.
GetMeThere's algorithm matches my commute with
people going in the same
direction, so they're
getting paid to do what they were going to do anyway, so it's a win - win - win (borrowing a term from Michael Scott).
You know, he loves the act of
getting people to go in what he thinks is the right
direction.»
It's more than often the
direction you're pointed if you have an idea and talk to any old - school business
person, corporate lifer or institutional banker — at least when it comes to
getting your startup idea off the ground.
The exact goals vary from
person to
person — in late»90s Gates once famously used his week to
get his head around the emerging trend of the internet — but all commentators seem to agree that the experience is a great way to set your
direction.
But vision and
people skills are, in a sense, table stakes: you need those things just to
get the boat headed in the right
direction and to keep it more - or-less on course.
«I think as a company, if you can
get those two things right — having a clear
direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great
people who can execute on the stuff — then you can do pretty well.»
«It's a lot easier to
get people following a new
direction if the organization can create a little relief from the mind - numbing amount of no - longer - meaningful work that awaits them.»
They don't have to be home runs - they can be singles and doubles, but they need to point
people in the right
direction and show them that there are big innings ahead and that things will only
get better from here.
The remote - working criticism — that it's harder to
get people to move in the same
direction when they're dispersed — just doesn't seem to apply at Automattic.
«But I think we will
get to a point, and are already well down that course, where
people will say, «We like this
direction, we like the progress so far, we've
got to hold their feet to the fire.»»
Thanks in no small part to the Internet, there is no longer one «right» way to accomplish this goal —
people's attention is fractured in a million different
directions and to
get the right message in front of the right
person at the right time, you have to try to anticipate where they might be at any given time.
«It
got crowded, it went in the other
direction, and it hurt
people who were holding at the very end.»
Although some
people get lucky now and then, numerous academic studies have shown that no one successfully guesses the
direction of the stock market consistently.
It's time to revolt, take
direction action against these
people,
get in their face, call them out, expose their lies and real agendas.
But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many
people get to cast votes on the
direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!
They will often have some sort of «designated driver» to lead the group in a particular
direction, but often the leader doesn't really know how to
get people «home» or what that «home» is.
«41 The
person who is infinitely tardy in
getting started on an improved life - plan should be first shown the dire consequences that may ensue from the
direction being pursued.
Anyone with their wits about them who reads scripture and prays and is genuinely humble will see that many of the issues which push
people into «camps» - especially but not only in the U.S. - are distortions in both
directions caused by trying to
get a quick fix on a doctrinal or ethical issue, squashing it into the small categories of one particular culture.
a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a
person's life in order to give them
direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about
getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)
Not a little of the everlasting new curriculums that are issued from the boards of Christian education is, at some level not clearly conscious, aimed at qualifying the motherly -
person image in the
direction of masculinity and the intellect — without
getting rid of Mom altogether.
Following the bible, is like following
directions written centuries ago by some
person helping someone else
get from Jerusalem to Damascus, they don't work if you're going from New York to Jersey, or most other places today.
A sighted
person might steer a blind
person in the right
direction and might clear obstacles from the path both of which might be helpful to
getting around.
We don't want to
get involved when
people need a hand moving in a positive
direction — after all, «those
people» need to figure out how to do it themselves, so the lessons stick — but we will fall all over ourselves to
get involved when we deem some sort of punishment is in order.
Yes, I've had lots of Bible verses thrown my
direction that supposedly prove the place of women, the sinfulness of LGBTs, and that homeless
people should
get off their rear ends and work.
If there was a lion on the hill and a bunch of
people running in one
direction except 2 % of the herd that ran the other way who
gets the focus?
So... we
got a bunch of confused
people with no clear
direction... Just go with the flow.
Here, the idea is not that the
person in authority knows better than other
people, but that certain kinds of human activity require the coordinated action of many human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way) to
get such coordination is to set up one
person to give
directions to others.
We need something that truly inspires and
get people moving and thinking in the right
direction, storming the gates of hell rather than hunkering down and waiting for the rapture to arrive.
Fred, I find it amusing that you are accusing a
person (David) who has stories of
getting clear
direction from God in various times in his life, of denouncing clear vision.
If I remember correctly, the organization of which you are a part is perceived as homophobic, so the comments that
get thrown your
direction are probably much different than the comments I hear among the culture I am part of, which includes many LGBTQ
people.
I love it when I
get feedback from
people on how they've adapted my recipe so let me know what
direction you take it!
Texas football is really important to a lot of
people, and as the head coach, you'll
get pulled in many different
directions.
When I asked to take a portrait of him, and I wanted him to look to his right (I like to
get profiles and
people looking in different
directions) he said, «To hide my f *** ed up hair?»
People, do not be fooled into thinking it can not
get worse, because it is and will
get worse still if he stays and unless the club changes
direction at 180 degrees.
Getting people going in the same direction, getting them to buy in, getting the arrows pointed in the same dir
Getting people going in the same
direction,
getting them to buy in, getting the arrows pointed in the same dir
getting them to buy in,
getting the arrows pointed in the same dir
getting the arrows pointed in the same
direction.
People that have gone a lot seem to know the right
direction to take, but newbies like us
got a little mangled!
I have a new respect for
people who can actually manage to
get a boat to go in the
direction they want without ending up in the sea.
I am not trying to say that public pants wetting is common place when you have two children but I am just trying to explain that sometimes you will be
getting pulled in two different
directions by two demanding little
people and it won't always end well.
It works in the other
direction as well — if you're planning a create - a-video contest, find a way
get people involved who ARE N'T actually doing the shooting and editing, perhaps by asking them to rate or comment on the submissions.
Once he's sent
people in the right
direction, he steps back and lets them
get on with it.
A lot of it is just down to
people saying don't know, it happens in all polls, other bits are just the natural churn you
get in all
directions between parties.
«I want to make sure that
people that this is a serious race and it's winnable and whomever the (GOP) candidate is you
got ta
get behind and try to change the
direction of the state,» he said.
So, fundamentally the problem was not about many
people being against Obamacare, it's purely a failure to
get to an agreement to move the country in a new
direction that necessarily requires a large fraction of the country to agree to disagree and work constructively toward implementation.
«In the absence of any clear
direction of the police,
people assume that whatever we're
getting from the federal level is coming down to the local level,» said Irma Solis, the director of the Suffolk County office of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
All we need to do is start
getting some hints that will point
people in the right
direction.
By telling me that I can be a smart
person and also
get lost, he gave me a way to accept his
directions and still feel good about myself.