Sentences with phrase «thing about asking»

The thing about asking for honest feedback is that you might not like what you hear.

The other good thing about asking the guy in the next bay is a totally different perspective.

The revolutionary, almost subversive, thing about asking is that it goes beyond making it OK to have secret questions and inner doubts and gives us permission to raise our hands in God's classroom with a «Pardon me, but I don't get it.»

Not exact matches

Instead say: «I don't have a strong opinion either way, but a couple things to consider are...» When you offer an opinion (even without choosing a side), it shows that you care about the person asking.

Schedule periodical calls with your customers to share updates about how things are going and to ask how happy they are with your services on a scale from 1 - 10, 10 being best.

Ask Aubrey Hearn, vice president and senior portfolio manager for Sentry Investments, about his investing philosophy and the first thing he'll tell you is that he's a big fan of Warren Buffett.

Yet, when I had a bunch of VCs in here last week from the United States and I was talking to them about various things, I was asking how our wireless and broadband are here because we're told in Canadian terms that we have superior networks.

If you mess things up at the start, you'll soon enough get to that awful and uncomfortable conversation where someone will ask you about one of the new hires and you'll say «I don't know» or «the jury's still out.»

The very things Max asks about are things that could dramatically help company morale, dramatically affect costs or dramatically increase revenue.

The service can respond to questions about the weather and traffic, and can also connect to things like personal calendars and Gmail accounts to provide personalized information to users who ask.

For example, Levy met a Tinder exec recently and asked her about the first thing most people ask her.

She develops the habit of memorizing sports scores off the Bloomberg ticker first thing in the morning, knowing that her bosses will ask her about them later in the day.

And so on days like Wednesday when the stock market sells off, people might be asking about the health of things like the biotech sector.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

«And if that candidate gets to meet the VP or the CEO, they'll be able to ask about the competition and «What are you guys doing versus this thing?»

But if you asked them the same thing about the website they all say they don't want the ads.

When asked about his longer - term strategy for Hitachi, the chief executive said: «Listen to all of the people's opinions, not only internal but also external opinions [and] imagine [how things will be like] five years later.

In true college - application style, Rosen asks for responses to things like «Tell me about a problem you've overcome this year» or «What have you done this year that makes you really proud?»

Vaden says, «When you ask yourself that question, you will find that you immediately feel less pressure to only focus on the urgent things that are pressing today or this week and you instead gain a perspective to start thinking about what you can be doing now to make a positive impact on the future.

Hubbard, who among other things is a MetLife director, came off as imperial and arrogant when asked about his consulting arrangements.

Investors often ask about advisors» investment philosophies but the term means different things to different people.

The thing about meaning is that it's best conferred by giving the topic personal relevance,» explains Page19, which suggests that for each new book you ask yourself what you hope to learn, how it might change your life, and why you should bother reading it.

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

It's simple, all you have to do is pick one thing and ask about it, and that'll start the conversation.»

Your broker is about to become a fiduciary — at least when it comes to your retirement accounts — and, depending on whom you ask, that could be a very good or very bad thing.

For this column, I've asked five people in my own profession whose work I admire and informs my own to share some things to think about as you continue having conversations about race.

But regardless of your race or that of the person you're speaking with, don't be afraid or too proud to look foolish to ask questions about things you don't know — especially when someone says something that needs further discussion.

Pressed by Tapper about Trump's repeated falsehoods, with the CNN anchor asking whether they distracted from what Conway said were «the many things that he says that are true that are making a difference in people's lives,» she said they served as distractions only «if they're covered.»

Save up three or four things to talk to someone about the next time you see them and ask your team to do the same for anyone they talk to or email.

The idea is that you can have it somewhere in your house and, using the wake - up word «Alexa,» constantly be asking it to do things like answer questions, give you information about a topic, or add things to your to - do list.

It's odd in that it kicks things off by asking you some weirdly specific questions about whether you earn income through farming, estates, or corporate partnerships.

This means you'll end up asking lots of questions about things you thought you already knew.

Buffett spoke to CNBC on Monday to talk about IBM (IBM) among other things, and when asked about IBM's shaky stock performance, he casually responded, «I feel fine.»

As Steve Jobs said, «Most people never ask, and that's what separates, sometimes, the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.»

If you do things for others first, then they may ask you if they can write about you.

Shred - It's been built up to a billion - dollar business, and just prior to franchising in junk removal, I called up and asked him about the one thing I needed to know.

«But when you dig into the data, you find that people are asking for things like greater role clarity and more information about strategic vision.»

«It's about identifying the object of this lunch in your mind» and going in armed with «a couple of things that you want to ask, and a couple of things you want to share.»

One member of the audience, Alexa von Tobel of LearnVest (a millennial herself), said that she doesn't allow her employees to ask their supervisors specific questions about work during the regular work day, so that they will be forced to figure things out on their own.

The one thing that I heard over and over again from advertisers when I went out to ask them about it was, «We want to come back, but we're not going to do it until this has passed,» which meant that she had to go to prison.

Too many Millennials complain about not getting paid enough while they do one of two things: they either do not ask for a raise, period, or they do not take the time to understand what would warrant a raise and going all - in on acquiring that skill set.

I get invited a lot to do speeches to groups, and I'm always asked questions about being a woman trying to make things work today.

Wong and Penner based their research on a long - running national study in which interviewers asked more than 14,000 people about things like income, job, and education.

So I asked hundreds of entrepreneurs and leaders: «What's the single best thing you've learned about success at work from your colleagues who were born after 1980?»

McDonald recommends asking yourself about what matters to you at work besides your paycheck and being prepared to negotiate for these things.

Ask Luijke about benefits you're likely to see more of in 2016, and the first thing he speaks about is a new, more specialized focus on employee fitness and emotional well being.

«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.»

Business Insider has some good things to say about it: «The TOMS office in Los Angeles comes with a big blue slide, motivational signs, and all the wood embellishments you could ask for.

When colleagues ask why he «exposes» himself that way, he answers with what has become a familiar refrain: «We have to be able to tell the truth about these things.»