Sentences with phrase «people making changes on»

The NWEI course book «gave me a lot of hope to read stories about people making changes on large scales that help not only themselves but the community around them.

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

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

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.

On top of all this, their website acts as a community portal, helping to clue people in about the changes they could be making to help themselves and the environment.

«People change their minds and when they're forced to make decisions on a time clock that isn't theirs, it's a lot easier to make mistakes and want to flip - flop,» she said.

Instead, people make discreet changes in their settings on the site to limit the views they find offensive from showing up in their feed, without provoking outward shows of conflict with people.

She considers Nest Labs» Internet - connected thermostats as being a type of robot that can sense changes in its environment like rising temperature and then make adjustments based on a person's personal habits, even though those thermostats don't have arms or heads like people expect robots to have.

«When you have thousands of people coming to your site every day, if making one little change like putting a security logo on your checkout page makes a 1 percent difference in conversion rate a day that can make a huge impact on your bottom line over time.»

I've learned more about who I want to become as a leader and discovered how I want to change the world by making it my mission to have a positive impact on the lives of one billion people.

I'd tell them to wait until they have people in place who can take this feedback and work on making changes.

«We literally had to close for a week, change, and renovate to make it so cut - and - dry that (my staff) wouldn't have to deal with people feeling entitled and giving them a hard time,» says Gallagher, who also trained his staff on how to enforce the new limits.

The shady «Mad Men» style of putting a perfect bow on crap is rapidly changing into a world where people are getting stuff they actually want, and can use, and will make their lives better.

If you're exploring new technology, making new discoveries, or developing any product, service, or process that changes the way people live, work or play, you've absolutely got a news story on your hands.

More and more, older people, too, are making career changes not geared around making more money but focused on personal health, well - being, and fulfillment.

In fact, being a «jerk on the other side» hardens other people's opinions, making it more difficult to change their minds.

You can change the game to whatever you like, like making the effort to meet a set number of people you decide on ahead of time.

People generally dislike change, so whether it's your employees or investors make sure these people are on board with your plan to implement radical, disruptive chPeople generally dislike change, so whether it's your employees or investors make sure these people are on board with your plan to implement radical, disruptive chpeople are on board with your plan to implement radical, disruptive changes.

Many people have theories why Niantic made these changes — some think the game's three - step tracker had a negative impact on the «Pokémon GO» servers, so they shut down the feature until they could fix the problem — but most people are frustrated not just because this crucial feature was removed, but because Niantic hasn't given any kind of official explanation, and has done nothing to calm worried fans.

«There are the people who just want to keep doing what they are doing, and their concern is that the new regulations will make what has always worked suddenly become legally ambiguous,» says Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of Funders Club, an online venture capital firm that has been invited to comment on the changes by the White House, the Treasury and several D.C. think tanks.

As I started thinking about how to change that, I became very focused on the laboratory space and the context of the power of laboratory data — which drives, some say, 80 % of clinical decisions — and the ability to help make access to that information more available to people, and to try to create actionable information that would be accessible to people at the time that it really matters.

If energy costs go up when there's a price on carbon... and an incentive comes in then, it actually helps people make changes.»

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Suggest changes based on the problems people have, so monitoring it for important keywords makes sense.

The three most common problems we encounter are focusing too much on the competition, being unwilling to make changes, and not focusing on their target audience (i.e. trying to attract all 7 billion people on the planet to their company).

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

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Stress brought on by a collapsing stock market fundamentally changes how people make financial decisions.

This is denying a person access to life changing capital and making an otherwise capable member of society dependent on systems that will only hurt their credit and ability to pay further.

I'm convinced that what the company is working on has the potential to materially change the lives of people around the world, and I'm looking forward to working with Coinbase and its leadership team to help make this vision a reality.

As a former Third Point employee told journalist Nicholas Stein in 2007, Loeb «believes that if you embarrass a CEO in front of his friends at the club, make him feel like people are talking about him, you can exert change on his company.»

The tax plan does not make direct changes to how income on investments is taxed, but what people will pay could change as a result of other provisions in the plan.

Facebook Inc. said it's making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting users» news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets — a transition that is likely to mean people spend less time on the site.

«The platform us Parkland Students have established is to be shared with every person, black or white, gay or straight, religious or not, who has experienced gun violence, and hand in hand, side by side, We Will Make This Change Together,» she also wrote on Twitter.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

The people that make the most successful companies aren't necessarily the people that come to you with the best idea in the beginning, but they're the people who can pivot and who can adapt and change and aren't so focused on their product or their technology being a reflection of their own egos.

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If the far right wants to act like they are more special than the rest of Americans than fine make all people married under the government go back and change the wording on their license to read Cilvil Union.

atheists needs to back - off leave people be and focus on making the world safer and a less of a time try to changes peoples minds about God.

also i am working to change it i lobby for thing that require police to be more accountable, right know were working on have cops were cameras on their person, and i plan on making cops not allowed to use guns with live ammo, unfortunately the FOP and correctional unions own California.

You can all just start believing in me now, praying to me... if you'd like me to write down a bunch of stuff that is hard to understand and contradicts itself, I will, but I'll make sure dozens of people get their hands on it first, change it to their liking and to what suits their needs, then pass it off as my original word.

Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

Now, if CNN would give us REAL articles, with actual topics, at least a few people would start making comments worthy of consideration and discussion (there would still be yammering idiots on both sides of the aisle, but that's never going to change).

But more important are the changing patterns and attitudes of campus life, the enormously increased and still increasing numbers of young people who are on campuses, and the various kinds of movements that combine to make young people think of religion and the church as false, traditional, or irrelevant.

(James 2:26) This is why I speak to people about the Bible, to show them just what the Bible teaches so that they can conform their lives to the Bible and make necessary changes to be real Christians based on the Bible, not based on what some man's opinion.

The difference is Mr. I will never win Pulitzer... is that Islamic TERRORISTS come teams of 4 on 4 different planes sent from mosques and other places of Islam to kill jews... He is but one man... Who made his point... It was people like you that he was trying to change..

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

Even if he has to make some people uncomfortable while doing so, he's on a mission to change the way Christians talk about faith and justice.

So I no longer want to force change on people — I want to introduce them to the One who can make them new.