It is necessary to
picture the point of view of the audience and the side of the argument they are on.
«Looking at our environment from the big
picture point of view, taking steps to get off the power grid and reduce our carbon footprint makes sense for our company, our world and future generations.»
This addresses the perplexing nature of energy data in China, which Mark and his team believed to be largely consistent and accurate from the big -
picture point of view, but difficult to untangle once one started to dig a little deeper.
Not exact matches
When the researchers looked at data from that particular study, they found that taller boys and girls performed significantly better at age 3 on a test in which they had to
point to
pictures of different words.
Expanding that functionality to other retailers would remove the pain
point of walking up to a checkout counter, enabling shoppers to pay by simply taking a
picture of a product's bar code.
They're distracting themselves with minutiae, losing sight
of the big
picture, and potentially missing out on what's important — namely, those inflection
points.
I tried to take a
picture of the device but, really, there wasn't any
point.
They
point out the alleged «irony»
of the fact that Microsoft had a
picture of a smiling Bill Gates on its website when the company was facing an antitrust suit.
At one
point, the Dallas police department released a
picture of a man they called a suspect.
Otherwise, all these data
points help by giving me a more robust
picture of each candidate.
On a visit to Fortune's office Wednesday, the health system executive painted a mostly rosy
picture of the modern, efficient health system he sees in America's future — though he did note a few pain
points that stand in the way.
A focal
point can be a quote, a
picture of an inspirational person, artwork or really anything that helps someone push a mental reset button.
If you've been documenting your customer interactions, you should have a
picture of who they are, what types
of products they buy, and what their pain
points are.
Provide context around the bigger
picture and larger goals, but give junior team members opportunities to think through potential approaches and solutions themselves and share their recommendations and
point of view.
He called many
of them «talking
points» that were «pre-circulated» beforehand «based on a strategy
of isolating the most favorable facts and events, and ignoring other events and the big
picture.»
Part
of the enormous value
of the napkin talk isn't that you are necessarily going to paint a crystal - clear
picture of your employee's future; the
point is you are expressing to your employee that you want them there, you see them in your company future and, most significantly, you care.
Economists said the results
pointed to a mixed
picture for the German economy, a key pillar
of the euro zone's economic health.
In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder
of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site,
pointed to studies
of old
pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.
With newspapers and television dominated by
pictures and reports
of hundreds
of migrants who have either died or been turned away by the richest continent in the world, the situation has reached a breaking
point for Europe's leaders.
A White House official
pointed to trade as part
of a «bigger
picture» for the economy, with cabinet - level discussions described as «deliberative» and the President focused on doing right by American workers.
To get a clearer
picture of how these behaviors operate, my colleague and I examined how they work from a third party's
point of view — that is, how do observers
of sucking up to a boss process it?
They want to do what they want to do — but what if they are missing the whole
point of owning the big
picture and what's needed?
Ordinary metrics such as calls per day and minutes per call are a decent starting
point, but they alone are not comprehensive enough to paint a complete
picture of the skills
of any particular sales rep.. So, consider incorporating lesser - used metrics into your performance tracking, such as voicemail - return rate, dial - to - opportunity percentage and dials - to - appointments ratio.
It's at this
point, management experts say, that leaders should shift from the skills - based, reactive approach
of «horizontal» leadership to big -
picture strategies, known as «vertical» leadership.
Case in
point: influential photographer Jeff Mindell shared a
picture of his infant son rocking a Mini Mioche cap with his 60,000 Instagram followers (with the caption, «New hat, who dis?»)
The book paints a
picture of an exceptionally successful woman who admits to lacking confidence at various
points in her career.
They were wildly popular with children, but the company made an adult mistake in 1987 when it released four million boxes
of Count Chocula that featured a
picture of Bela Lugosi as Dracula wearing a six -
pointed medallion.
When it comes to taking digital
pictures, much
of the recent focus has been on smartphones — how they now take better
pictures than many
point - and - shoots did just a few years ago (and why it's now vital to be able to Instagram a shot
of your dinner and make a phone call with the same device).
Boards explaining how you can win or lose
points and showing
pictures of the best scorers are a common sight in Rongcheng; passersby talk about them with pride.
It's vital that you have a clear
picture of the traction and proof
points you'll need to show investors when you eventually do raise your A. And these proof
points have to both demonstrate a significant jump in valuation and de-risk your concept.
If you can't quite bring yourself to show a
picture of Styles to your barber, then ask for
point - cut square layers.
Although I do believe that life is too short not to eat a piece
of cake every once in a while, life is also too short to not be happy with yourself... especially to the
point that you won't have your
picture taken with your newborn child.
Peretti first
points to a company that started more than 100 years ago, Paramount
Pictures, which owned a film production studio, its own cast
of talent, and its own distribution channel in the form
of theaters.
That
point was reinforced just after the build concluded when a mother who lived at the development came over as volunteers were cleaning up and said she hadn't been able to get out
of work to help build, but throughout the day she received
pictures from her kids who were watching the build happen with growing excitement.
On the other hand, Lockhart said, «If we see a deterioration from this
point, and I would say my more realistic fear is just a kind
of ambiguous
picture of mixed data that signal neither accelerating strength nor necessarily deterioration, but that kind
of moping along in the middle, then I think it's not a foregone conclusion that the asset purchase program should be removed or be removed rapidly.»
But even if it's just on a billboard or truck wrap, adding a
picture of a truck driver, especially with their family, up there with a few bullet
points improves viewer response.
These data
points make up the demographics
of your personas, help inform your marketing strategy, and paint a
picture of who your buyers are.
However, TD's online estimates give users a more detailed
picture of how mortgage
points and lender credits can affect the costs
of a home loan.
GM's Marry Barra
pointed out that our planners need to think about where the future
of EVs fit into the
picture, ranging from charging stations to funding the infrastructure bill via a gas tax as these vehicles become more prevalent.
PICTURED ABOVE AND BELOW: The City
of Seattle is averaging about 750 new townhome and single - family home sales per year, but is witness to a diminishing number
of sales at price
points below $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are rising.
It is not unusual for clients to bring their attorneys into the
picture, to go over the language
of the agreement, and any finer
points which may have been overlooked.
They confirmed, at that
point, a
picture of very strong business investment; declining government investment, as earlier fiscal stimulus is unwound; relatively flat dwelling investment; and weak commercial construction.
June will be very interesting as the half way
point of the year and will give me a clearer
picture of my total 2017 passive income potential.
We do recognize that some
of the underlying data may
point toward a weaker unemployment
picture than appears on the surface.
They use multiple data
points to form a more complete
picture of the sales landscape.
So the demand
picture is fairly frightening from a producers»
point of view.»
A photojournalist for Associated Press took a
picture of his prepared talking
points and the photo was posted on Twitter.
To increase your chances
of customers buying your
pictures, try to think from their
point of view and what they need.
«Your starting
point should always be to build a complete
picture of your debt, including all loans, credit cards, etc.,» says Barry Stewart, an insolvency expert with 180 Advisory Solutions.
However, the long - term
picture is different: 45 per cent
of respondents now believe Brexit will cause the UK's economy to deteriorate slightly or significantly in the long term — an increase
of 7 percentage
points from July 2016.