Sentences with phrase «self interest as»

What the real estate industry needs is for every individual who is so devoid of empathy that they can unwittingly represent their own self interest as «raising the bar» to resign.

Legal Week survey highlights poor leadership and partner self interest as reasons for the collapse of the legacy SJ Berwin business

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But while the world's second - largest economy, which self - identified as a «Near - Arctic State» in its new white paper, may have it's own economic and foreign policy interests in mind, experts cautioned that doesn't mean a geopolitical standoff is coming.

And as U.S. economic growth becomes self - sustaining, interest rates can be allowed to rise, which would offer more competition to non-income paying assets such as gold.

No doubt, an interesting argument could be had about whether a future of self - driving, electrically propelled automobiles could be as clean and efficient as better public transit.

Known as a self - proclaimed geek who said he was uncomfortable in his native France and hadn't been back in years, Karpeles became interested in bitcoin when a customer of his web - hosting services wanted to pay in the virtual currency.

Laloux said that he finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.

The confluence of corporate self - interest and geopolitical considerations not only enabled Qualcomm to turn the tables on Broadcom, but canonized the San Diego company as a sort of national champion essential to battling China's might in the next - generation wireless communications technology known as 5G.

Finally, we used Facebook ads to drive traffic to our giveaway page as well as an Instagram influencer strategy, which involved identifying Instagrammers with an audience of people interested in subjects such as motivation, productivity, and self - improvement.

But as a backup, we have commercial law and various regulations to give makers and sellers of products good reason, from a self - interested point of view, to treat consumers well.

As an author, I was naturally self - interested in Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing program, which lets writers self - publish and sell their own e-books through the company's apps and devices.

Customer loyalty is primarily based on customer self interest (as it should be.)

Urban Airship: Self - heralded as «the most globally deployed mobile - push messaging service,» Urban Airship leverages its technology to target customers based on their locations and send them push notifications of products or services of interest (such as yours).

If a director or chair acts out of self - interest, directors will not work as a coherent team.

It might have been interesting to wait until after to say what they had done, as the announcement could be taken as edging toward self - interest.

It is the nature of bureaucracies and their leaders to engage in self - protection — and to think of their choice to do so as a matter of high - minded ethics, not self - interest.

If you're doing it only for self - interest, such as gaining notoriety and respect, or additional business, people will see that and run the other way.»

The fact of the matter is that boards, as self - policing bodies, may be incapable of solving the renewal issue on their own because of entrenchment and self - interest.

The concept, as Dutton describes it, depends on incongruity, or the element of surprise — one of the five factors he crams into the acronym SPICE: simplicity, perceived self - interest, incongruity, confidence and empathy.

But it's not as simple as being either self - interested or altruistic, he says.

That gets right to the point of what you discovered in your reporting, without pretending to be above the fray and reporting what powerful, self - interested «sources» tell you as if it is the gospel?

It is certainly possible that the unethical favours at the expense of of a third party might just be construed as the cost of gifts in the eyes of the giver and the receiver and hence become indistinguishable from other forms of self - interest.»

The IBM - VMware strategic hookup was driven by the mutual self - interest by two companies who see AWS, which appears to be en route to a $ 10 - billion - a-year cloud business, as an existential threat.

Being known as the father of modern economics used to entitle him to greater respect than he now gets in some quarters, where his «invisible hand» is portrayed as more sinister than comforting, and the self - interest that drives the butcher, brewer and baker to prepare our dinner gives the food a bitter taste.

As we've previously reported, investors» interest this year has shifted away from consumer devices to niche and enterprise hardware, such as aerospace technologies, tech to power self - driving vehicles, and industrial roboticAs we've previously reported, investors» interest this year has shifted away from consumer devices to niche and enterprise hardware, such as aerospace technologies, tech to power self - driving vehicles, and industrial roboticas aerospace technologies, tech to power self - driving vehicles, and industrial robotics.

It clashes with emerging structural concepts like open - source or results - only work environments, and with the fact that, as Pink writes, «for a surprisingly large number of people, jobs have become more complex, more interesting, and more self - directed.»

The CMHC boss had just given testimony at the House of Commons Finance Committee that effectively called out critics of tighter mortgage - lending rules as self - interested.

Of course, there may be some degree of self - interest in this seemingly selfless request insofar as the bulk of Gildan's operations are in Central America and the Caribbean, unlike some of its competitors who may source more from Bangladesh.

From what I have witnessed, the Foundation with Buterin at its helm, has exercised a great deal of rational thought in its decision making process, and I have not seen any evidence that it has chosen self - interest over the betterment of the Ethereum community as a whole.

By causing Retrophin to recharacterize MSMB Healthcare's subscription as a loan, repay such loan with interest, and pay Shkreli a cash advance — all for his own benefit and for the benefit of MSMB Capital — Shkreli engaged in self - dealing and breached his duty of loyalty to Retrophin.

Inasmuch as the essence of rulers and government is rule - setting, deregulation represents an undoing of public power in society's broad interests, on the ground that public power is inherently corrupt and run in the bureaucracy's narrowly self - serving interest.

On the other, as buyers, they have a strong self - interest in paying the lowest possible price.

As for Europe, it never has pushed its own self - interest in the World Bank or the IMF.

Furman and Stevenson note that while DOL's plan allows businesses to «continue using existing, conflicted business models,» it requires that they adopt «additional consumer protections such as ensuring advisors follow a best interest standard, enacting policies and procedures to manage and mitigate conflicts, and refraining from certain self - dealing transactions.»

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

It is not as if we live in a system where people vote their self - interest.

Business self - interest is treated with the same outrage as unchecked political power for taking the steps they need to take to be profitable.

Here's the interesting twist in the changes that are occurring — as buyers become more self - directed - the more B2B organizations will view «buying» in a professional light as opposed to something they do.

Away from the mob, a man of «Honour» is flogged at a whipping post by «Vilany,» assisted by an ape in devilishly flamboyant garb, while the figure of «Honesty,» stripped naked, is bludgeoned by «Self Interest» atop a wheel of fortune as a minister intones a prayer over him.

The first concerns how individuals rank their self - interest as compared to the interests of others.

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Instead, he presents his proposal in the terms of a labor - union manifesto: «It is long past time for faculty members to rise above narrow self - interest, give up the doctrine of academic exceptionalism, and agree to the same terms of employment as everyone else in the workforce.»

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

From 1518 on, it is the particularity and concreteness of God's presence that now foreclose idolatry; the true God, who by definition can not be used, is the God who makes Himself available as He chooses, in the flesh born of Mary and the Church's sacramental practice, not in our religious speculation and self - interest.

Their accounts of human nature see persons as aggressive, competitive, and self - interested.

«Now, as then, the inevitable danger is that they will confuse their own self - interest with the common good.»

It's interesting to see how people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be blind to any other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

This hypocritical belief applies to all lovers of the self, lovers of self - will, lovers of self - interest, lovers of self - rights...... lovers of the belief in freedom of rights and religion... making Christ into a «faith» of the same validity as any other man - made «religion».

Just as sexual self - expression has few limits in a culture where chaste behavior is mocked, lawyers» self - interest is apt to run amok when anyone who places client or court above profit is branded a hypocrite or a chump.