Sentences with phrase «story about a leader»

Being a principal who works in a high - poverty school, I love stories about leaders who overcome all odds and succeed despite their disadvantages.

Not exact matches

«We are the world - class leader in this technology, no question about it... Since we have launched our mobile platform we've received numerous stories from our patients «Gee, you've saved my life, again,» and so it has been wonderful,» Sayer said.

Stories are a powerful way for leaders to engage customers, increase sales, rally the troops, sell ideas internally and externally, recruit talented staff, and share the key messages about you and your company that you want both your internal and external stakeholders to hear.

Leaders, managers and members of the transformation task force should find opportunities every day to weave in stories about transformation progress being made.

Everyone has read stories about the visionary leader who was able to see the future.

Effective communication isn't just about talking; leaders who master the art of listening authentically will have uncanny, X-Men-like ability to listen intuitively to the other person's story, asking questions, and searching conversations for depth, meaning and understanding with their needs in mind.

Google «working for a narcissist» and you'll get a host of horror stories, from employees wooed and then quickly dumped by charming leaders to bosses lashing out about insanely minor offenses.

We'll ask backers about their own stories and experiences, and how they align and diverge from those in The Leader's Guide.

Join Asia's private banking industry leaders as they discuss and share their views about the state of mandate businesses in Asia, its potential long - term prospect and how it will differ from the European story.

In the documentary The Story of Content: Rise of the New Marketing, River Pools & Spas co-owner Marcus Sheridan shares the following about the company's turnaround from near bankruptcy to becoming the global leader in Fiberglass pool education (26:54 mark):

His story about how he made Peerless Clothing into a world leader in the production of men's suits is a straight - ahead account of savvy business practice, exceedingly hard work, and fearlessness in the face of risk - both a valuable document for anyone building a company who wants to know how high - wire entrepreneurship works, and an important contribution to the history of garment manufacturing in Montreal.»

«Our test to see if a similar story would be written about others» religion is to substitute «Jew» or «Jewish,»» Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul wrote in objection to a Washington Post article last fall about the candidate's role as a church leader in Boston.

Again, I really want to stress this is not about the messy never ending post divorce antics with an NPD but the culture of leaders in this publishing / speaking / minor celebrity circle that have smeared names and reputations in order to appear one way while behind the scenes another story is going on.

The stories of the synagogue leader, the healed woman and the ancient patriarch teach us about daring to hold God accountable for promises God has made to care for God's people.

We've got a variety of well - known theologians, biblical scholars, musicians and church leaders scheduled, as well as interesting people eager to share about their faith, lifestyle, interests, stories, and areas of expertise.

This is the third post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the sixth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

Israel asked for a King, so God reluctantly granted their wish... Interesting how in every story about the Israelites, they become defined by whoever was their leader at the time.

Many of these stories are about some of the best and brightest leaders in the public and private sectors who nevertheless have failed.

if anyone wants to get an idea read the books (true story) about the master forger who conned the leaders into buying his forgeries, murdered several people who discovered what he was up to, and accidentally blew off his own hands with one of his pipe bombs.

She also seems to go out of her way to pick on evangelical leaders, which is too bad because I really think evangelicals need to hear what she has to say, especially on page 10: «I'm tired of watching those who are supposed to care about the Bible reduce its stories and its teachings to slogans.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

This is the seventh post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the second post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the first post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the ninth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

You can also hear him on Premier Christian Radio's «The Profile» (also available as a podcast) where he interviews well known Christian leaders about their life and faith and on «Your News» where he and a guest discuss the week's top news stories from a Christian perspective with Premier's head of news Marcus Jones.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In fact, a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that «plenty of religious leaders express private doubts about polls that find almost half of American adults say they worship God each week.»

So often we make assumptions about media / artists / leaders / friends / family without really knowing what's going on, without taking the time to hear the full story.

* ahem * «influential leaders and scholars» «God is fictional down to the very root, the bible» «Kinda like how Marvel Comics continues to churn out stories about Thor» «merely myth» «contemporary lying scholars» «is a retard.

He often used the term «gay» pejoratively, and in 2011 issued a call on Facebook for his followers to share stories about and publicly ridicule what he deemed «effeminate anatomically male worship leaders.»

This is the fourth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

This is the tenth post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

In 2011, he issued a call on Facebook for his followers to share stories about and ridicule «effeminate anatomically male worship leaders.»

Stories in the newspapers about religious leaders do not offend or persuade us simply because we bring to them certain educational levels and political inclinations; they offend or persuade because something in the stories signals to us that the reported event violates certain standards of common decency or that it can be understood within some familiar fraStories in the newspapers about religious leaders do not offend or persuade us simply because we bring to them certain educational levels and political inclinations; they offend or persuade because something in the stories signals to us that the reported event violates certain standards of common decency or that it can be understood within some familiar frastories signals to us that the reported event violates certain standards of common decency or that it can be understood within some familiar framework.

whether for the right or wrong reasons, our leader chose to stay on when things took a turn of sorts... a new owner arrived on the scene, plans for a new stadium emerged and Wenger became the bearer of bad news... he sold us on a new story, one that required patience on our parts... financial constraints were the order of the day, so that the enormous sums spent on the new venue could be recouped... although some would question the validity of such claims, why wouldn't they believe their faithful leader... according to those within the hierarchy, the future never looked so bright, as this new home would ensure our place among the elites for years to come... as we all know now these claims were a well constructed fabrication and so those who feel they were duped in the process are infuriated and rightly so... the fact that this club and it's manager have continually misled the fans, especially following Gazidis's claims about our financial liquidity, simply rubbed more salt in an already gaping wound... this surely isn't how you treat your «family», especially when they supported you through the supposed «lean» years... it was a dirty trick played by Kroenke but the fact is was orchestrated by Wenger himself hurt the most... as for those in the media, many of whom are former players or longtime pundits, who observed the early years firsthand, saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent the anger they felt towards this pretentious man once and for all... all in all, karma's a bitch

One of the most enduring images we all have is that of George Bush as the leader of the free world sitting, clueless about what to do next, in a nursery school reading stories to children for 15 minutes after being told that planes had been flown into the Twin Towers.

not just a genuis but a leader... As for Mr Pulis, I had tears in my eyes listening to his heart breaking story about poor Ryan going home with Mummykins... except I hadn't because again we witnessed the product of the «kick Arsenal» media campaign..

In regards to my post above, these are the days I am concerned about: Sunday: church 9 - 12, Tuesday: Story Time at Library 10:30 - 10:50, Wednesdays: Bible Study leaders» meeting 9 - 11, Thursdays Bible Study 9 - 11 Is that too much disruption?

After reports about the death of the Al Qaeda leader, Efremov used a famous epic song by the highly popular Soviet bard Vladimir Vysotsky to comment on the story.

The Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger admitted this week to regrets over not seeking government approval for a story about GCHQ bugging world leaders during the G20 summit in 2007.

Her reaction to political embarrassment was to invent nonsense stories about foreign leaders trying to subvert British democracy.

But my point is about this conversation we are having today, and that we need to have the highest standards for elected leaders, and we have to change what's happening throughout society, and we have to allow people to tell their stories.»

You can't blame Republican leaders for trying to pick the winner of Tuesday's West Virginia primary ahead of time when the words «prison» and «supervised release» show up in nearly every story about Don Blankenship.

David Laws and others seriously dispute the Andrew Adonis story about 2010, but the accusation raises the question of the extent to which the relatively right - wing nature of the Liberal Democrat leader and negotiating team might have on the government formation process.

Often, the leaders stay tight - lipped about these private negotiations, but when things go sour, it can be a different story.

Troopergate kicked off on July 1st 2007, when the Albany Times - Union (the state capital's only daily) ran a story about state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno (R.) and his use of state helicopters as transport to political fundraisers.

Asked about a story in Monday's Daily News detailing a meeting between DSCC Chair Sen. Michael Gianaris, D - Queens, and a possible challenger to IDC Leader Jeff Klein, D - Bronx, Stewart - Cousins said she hopes those types of actions won't jeopardize reunification talks.

Unlike David Cameron and Gordon Brown, with whom it's possible to refer, en passant, to Bullingdon Club shenanigans, or a rugby injury, or a manse, and for nearly everyone to know what that might mean, all most people knew about Clegg (if they could name the leader of the Liberal Democrats at all) was perhaps that he had some European connections, though they weren't sure what, and maybe that he once told Piers Morgan he'd had 30 lovers (in fact, asked by Morgan whether he had slept with 30 women, Clegg replied: «It's a lot less than that» — not that that got in the way of a good story.)