Sentences with phrase «than change for»

There were no secrets and no question marks, but quality beats mystery, and refinement is sometimes better than change for change's sake.

It's a matter of adaptive leadership, more than change for the sake of change.

Service Is a Constant With a strong background in customer service, Yannaccone believes understanding customer needs is a critical piece of changing for the right reasons, rather than changing for the sake of change, or making changes that aren't informed by a disciplined focus on key strategies.

Not exact matches

For more than two decades, Springboard's Millman has contended that we needed vast societal changes before we'd have masses of women building fast - growing companies, cracking the very top ranks of entrepreneurship.

The changing market dynamics might also suggest that if you're looking for investment capital to fund your business, or if you're hoping to be acquired, you might get less than top dollar.

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Chinese - language dailies may be more influential than the Post, but changes in its editorial direction are seen as a barometer for press freedom under Chinese rule.

Rather than meet in a pub, per longstanding Irish tradition, the two men laced up their sneakers and went for a run, a picture of youthful energy as they discussed shared concerns about climate change, NATO, and Europe.

For Levi executives, it's the first real change to the way jeans have been made in more than a century.

The Senate left open a previous vote for more than 40 minutes as it appeared Republican leaders attempted to persuade McCain to change his vote.

For people in the developing world, getting connected to the internet via smartphone might change their lives even more than having a child, according to Google's Eric Schmidt.

We see how we've changed the lives, careers, and families of the more than 5,000 people who work for us; and two is we're able to work with and create solutions for the world's most innovative companies,» Weir says.

«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

The new regime at the money - losing retailer, backed by a hedge fund, may have had more in mind than just changing the optics around a brand best known for its sexually provocative — some would say sleazy — advertising.

«The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.»

By and large, these guys are moved by external demands far more often than any internal movements for change.

Proposed changes on capital gains would make it more expensive for a current family member to acquire the farm than for a third party.

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

The employees were introduced to the fundamentals of Robertson's system — covered in detail in «Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World» — including giving up traditional job titles and working on multiple tasks rather than at a specific job.

A sea change in economic conditions has pushed interest rates considerably lower than they were in the past and are likely to stay there for a while, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said Friday.

It is redesigning its deepwater oil platforms and onshore shale - gas projects to simplify them, a major cultural change at a firm that has long prided itself more for engineering prowess than for economic discipline.

«The issue is not that middle - class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long - term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change.»

Now that the internet has been changing our lives for more than 20 years, information has gone from a rare resource to a commodity.

The volatility of bitcoin has made it more useful as a vehicle for speculation than as a currency, say critics — when the value can change drastically from hour to hour, it introduces undesirable risk for sellers and buyers alike.

Ask yourself: Has the value your adviser provided more this year than last, or has your situation changed so much that it calls for an increase in your fee?

The consensus from psychologists is that the test — invented more than 50 years ago by mother - daughter duo Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers — is too rigid and fails to provide context or leave room for people to change.

The increasing prevalence of these rachets, says Kramer, reflects the changing timeline for startups more than it does any particular lack of investor confidence.

Without those changes, I would never have built the business that I sold for more than $ 100 million.

That «suggests that a long - term character change could be afoot, which makes me suspicious of anything more than a bounce for now,» he added in comments to CNBC.

After Amazon debuted in 1995, ecommerce changed the role of the Internet, and websites became revenue drivers rather than just a place for branding.

«EU leaders hoping for a significant change of policy (rather than tone) are likely to be disappointed,» he added.

It will take much more time than Trump has the patience for to see if an initiative is working and he will be tempted to change midstream.

One - time presidential candidate Walter Mondale warned Americans that unless things changed, there would be no future for their children other than to sweep the factory floors between Japanese - made computers.

These kinds of foods are arguably more eco-friendly than meat but - whatever your thoughts about gluten - free eating - it will change how protein crops are distributed globally and may divert pulses or increase the price of them for countries such as India that depend of non-livestock proteins.

Based on history, the acceptance period for major technology changes is much longer than innovative evolutionary changes — sometimes taking 20 years or more for pervasive acceptance.

What was once an apparently invincible business is swept under by changing times and market conditions — and the dogged determination to keep doing what's worked in the past rather than find new opportunities for a different future.

For all the stuff that's changing in the world, we're making it more complicated than it needs to be.

A Challenge to cut out sugar and alcohol for 30 days is vastly more likely to create lasting change than a nebulous «Lose 50 pounds» goal.

For example you might think Innovation sounds good until you realize that your life thrives on stability rather than constant change.

But the world has changed a great deal since the height of OPEC's power in 1979, when member nations accounted for 50 % of global oil production, compared with less than one - third today.

That money was generated by a number of sources, including the stronger economy, revenues from tax changes for private corporations, lower - than - expected departmental spending and re-profiled infrastructure commitments.

To get a sense of how this is changing the industry's dynamics, consider that a recent Deutsche Bank study estimates that just 5 % of traditional console games released since 2001 have sold more than a million copies (they typically retail for about $ 60 each).

China itself is suppressing its appetite for coal, albeit more for reasons of pollution than climate change.

The important lesson for brands of all kinds is that the advantage gained by first movers like Starbucks is now greater than ever, because the pace of market change is so rapid.

Rather than letting the mistake take him down, Krzanich used the situation to change the company for the better, etching out his legacy.

Under the changes due to be introduced on January 13, surcharge fees will be eliminated for payments including those made on American Express credit cards, Paypal and Apple Pay, going further than a European Union requirement to eliminate fees for consumers using Visa and MasterCard cards, the ministry said.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

Wages tend to grow along with the economy, but a number of factors, most notably technological change and globalization, have ensured that for most classes of workers wages have grown slower than productivity gains.

The BP spill led to more regulation (although not as much new in the U.S. as some would like) and less investment in the U.S. offshore oil industry than would have otherwise been the case, and these changes were likely compensated for with increased investment elsewhere.

Usually, it's people on the left who emphasize the need for metrics other than prices and profit margins when deciding whether economic changes like the ones Amazon drives are good.