Sentences with phrase «something about the person in»

Having 9 children says something about a person in a world of scarce resources.

Not exact matches

Setting up a company and culture that allows people to do what they do best (Mastery), in the way that they think will bring about the best results (Autonomy) focused on something that is meaningful (Purpose) as part of group aligned in values (Connectedness) is what drives a great and powerful culture.»

If you're really serious about finding someone to marry right now, you should be using Match.com or something, where you can target based on very specific criteria, and these are other people who are paid and committed to settling down right now, so if marriage in the next 18 months is your goal, then Match.com is the product for you.

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

Adam Alter: «Nomophobia» is a new word that's being coined to describe no mobile phobia, and it's the idea that a lot of us, in thinking about not having our phones, experience something like a phobia, and this is supposed to describe hundreds of millions of people today, and I'm sure that number is growing at the moment.

Yet timing seemed odd: As Facebook is still recovering from its worst privacy crisis in history, is this really the time to start tracking something as private about people as their dating habits?

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

«There's something very unique about the site that people fell in love with, and I definitely don't see myself outgrowing it,» she says.

«As we talk to more and more people about health,» he says, «the way they define it is «something that either facilitates or creates barriers for me in living the life I want to lead.»»

Often, we'll see something on a blog post, like [the recently trendy] microwave potato chip maker, and we'll scramble to get it in stock as quickly as popular while people in the blogosphere are still taking about it.»

Some people have a love of coffee that goes so deep they need to shout it to the world in tote bag form (we're not judging, we're all like that about something).

In some cases, buyers are really angry about something else, or they're just looking to blow off steam and you're the unlucky person on the receiving end.

Once a week, one or two people from each department get up in front of the whole team to «tell something special about what they did that week.»

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

They excel at turning a boring presentation into something people will talk about in the hallway and even on the ride back to the office.

So, it's not so much about the act of walking over burning hot coals, but about having people face and overcome something in spite of fear.

«When I'm meeting people for the first time, I ask about something they're excited about right now, or what they do in their time off, rather than asking «What do you do?»»

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

In effect, it's a type of market research — getting your people to think about what should come next and asking them, «If you could launch something that would help our customers, what would it be?»

«If the person has given you something in their profile to reference, either that message bait picture, or something interesting written, just ask a question about it,» she said.

Food banks, Saul argues, serve as a kind of «moral release valve» for government, permitting it to appear as if it were doing something about hunger when it's doing nothing to address the poverty and social isolation that lead people to food banks in the first place.

As he pushes the firm further into government corridors, Barton realizes that people are leery of power that hides its face — that there's something sinister about the mysterious adviser who sits in a corner taking notes and is never introduced.

A leader doesn't worry about what people will think nor how something will look because doing so means he's in the spotlight and is being selfish.

Automation has been replacing people in the workplace for two centuries, of course, but there's something particularly unsettling about a humanoid machine being dropped in as a one - to - one substitute for a flesh - and - blood employee.

It's about reading the person in front of you and giving them something before they ask for it.

Fairfield Inn and Suites, which hired her as spokesperson for something the company called «National Amazing Month,» a marketing campaign that involved conducting a survey in which it asked 1,400 people about who helps them stay amazing.

There's a big difference between paying people to participate in a focus group and having them actually think they're about to spend money on something.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

(Expect that to change pretty soon, although after the Equifax security debacle, people may get skittish in general about how well something really works.)

«There's something about big banks being in the single digits that makes people nervous,» Gundlach said.

You might not have a personal website or blog, but at least try to fill the Twitter bio field with something that people can click on to learn more about what you do and where you work, including anything discussed in your bio.

While many people, no doubt, have wished for a better dating app or thought about creating one, Bradford's position at Stanford put her in a spot to do something about it.

«In most of the Western world, salary just isn't something people feel comfortable talking about,» writes researcher David Burkus in his 2016 book «Under New Management: How Leading Organizations are Upending Business as Usual.&raquIn most of the Western world, salary just isn't something people feel comfortable talking about,» writes researcher David Burkus in his 2016 book «Under New Management: How Leading Organizations are Upending Business as Usual.&raquin his 2016 book «Under New Management: How Leading Organizations are Upending Business as Usual.»

That a Fortune 15 corporation would send even one person to such an event says something about the stakes involved in litigation targeting companies in the opioid supply chain.

«In fact it was a modest failure, but there was something about it that excited some small number of people.

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

We wanted to present people with something exciting that they would want to pick up and read, but this seemed just about impossible when our living arrangements consisted of sleeping on mattresses in a friend's parent's basement.

In it, she talks about her true passion — doing something good for other people, which explains why Student Maid cleans free for cancer patients.

It appears something about seeing people move in unison brings out the best in us.

ON THE VALUE OF SURROUNDING ONESELF WITH TALENTED PEOPLE If you're in an environment where you're not learning as much as you think you should be, if you don't have the people around you who you think are going to inspire you to do the best work that you can, then think about changing somePEOPLE If you're in an environment where you're not learning as much as you think you should be, if you don't have the people around you who you think are going to inspire you to do the best work that you can, then think about changing somepeople around you who you think are going to inspire you to do the best work that you can, then think about changing something.

Instead, he suggested, «You have to find the intersection of doing something you're passionate about and at the same time something that is in the service of other people.»

«We walk into a store and people know our name, ask us personal questions, and tell us how great we look in a particular pair of shoes...» This got them to consider how we can transfer this experience to the digital landscape, something we know they've been thinking about.

Here's something you may not know about court cases: There are often people in the public gallery who are paid to closely watch the members of the jury to see how they react to different witnesses.

«I'll ask [potential hires] about something that hasn't gone so well in their life and then ask them what they've learned from it because the next thing I look for in people is curiosity,» he says, «I'm interested in people who take those negative experiences in their lives and are really curious about what happened and can talk intelligently about what they learned and what they might do differently.»

«They have almost a paranoia about US law enforcement, because Mexican law enforcement is completely corruptible, and so when the cartel people get busted in Mexico, they can either shoot their way out or buy their way out or something,» he told Business Insider.

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

It's something most people don't like to think about, but in the event of your death, an unpaid business loan can affect your family.

Most people and businesses are interested in continuing to engage their audiences via content, so give them something to talk about.

«Our customers are shopping not so much because of a desire to buy something as they are engaged in learning about what's new, meeting interesting people and hearing their stories,» he says.