Ever since her story was featured in Christianity Today nearly a year ago, Butterfield has become something of a celebrity within the conservative evangelical world, and every time I'm in conversation with someone about the potential dangers of «conversion therapy» (which seeks to change a person's sexual orientation through counseling and prayer), her name invariably comes up.
«It's my first
time being in that conversation and I didn't necessarily think that was ever going to happen for me.
Think of
a time you were in a conversation with your partner and you thought: How can she say that?
Not exact matches
The plea hearing began at 10:30 a.m. Flynn has
been charged with making false statements to federal investigators about his
conversations in December with Russia's ambassador to the US at the
time, Sergey Kislyak.
«Research shows,» according to an article
in Time, «that while
conversations are indeed frequent among employees
in open offices, they tend to
be short and superficial — precisely because there
are so many other ears around to listen.»
Think about it — those who start forums
are asking potential and current members to spend
time each day doing something they don't normally do, which
is going into the forum on a separate site and engage
in conversation.
Although the debates scarcely touched on the economy or business, the
conversation was at
times a vivid example for business owners, about how to lead people
in their own companies.
This helps eliminate confusion and back and forth that occurs when there
are multiple
conversations going on at the same
time in different threads.
Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook «likes,» my photos from Instagram (even after I deleted the associated account), my education, the age - rank of men I
was interested
in, how many
times I connected, when and where every online
conversation with every single one of my matches happened...
As the always - incisive Bryan Roberts, framed it for me
in a
conversation around this
time last year, hospitals «
are essentially big capital assets trying to stuff people through them.»
When you dial
in by voice most people have a harder
time being totally
in sync with the
conversation and
are often distracted by other activities.
People share a lot of information, and if you take the
time to listen to what they
are saying, you will
be in the best possible position to have meaningful
conversations with the right people, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that moment.
Trust
in brands
is at an all -
time low so you need to change the
conversation about yours.
Feast
is co-founder and CEO of Cogito Corporation, a Boston - based software startup that uses artificial intelligence to measure and improve the quality of certain key
conversations, such as sales and customer - service calls,
in real
time.
Brunner, who left Lunar
in 1989 to become Apple's chief designer, recalls having
conversations with Smith about how they spent a fair amount of their
time giving counsel and strategic advice to start - up clients, almost as if they
were venture capitalists.
The value of a one - on - one
conversation in real
time can't
be overstated, whether marketing widgets or driving adoption on cloud platforms.
But here
's the key: If you
're in a
conversation at a work - related function or meeting someone to talk business for the first
time, your best move
is not to ask work - or business - related questions; it
's to discover common ties with that person that will steer the
conversation back to the «work stuff,» but with a deeper connection.
Unless you have
time to waste, your energy
is better spent
in a productive
conversation, which you'll find elsewhere.
There
are handy online calculators that help you estimate the cost
in staff
time of that meeting you
're contemplating, so we suggest doing the math and inviting only the most crucial people, or finding another way to have that
conversation.
The New York
Times reported last week that the diaries of Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia
's antidoping lab who
's currently
in hiding
in the U.S., detail
conversations with the then Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko about the cheating.
Or as newly unemployed
AI expert Andrew Ng, who quit his job at Baidu last week, told her: «I think it
's fascinating that
in a rather short period of
time he
's inserted himself into the
conversation on A.I. I think he sees accurately that A.I.
is going to create tremendous amounts of value.»
That
's when it
's time to step away from your desk and network with other professionals
in your field, some of your biggest breakthroughs can start from a
conversation.
In the course of developing that strategy, they had some long
conversations with the founders and the musical.ly team and came to the understanding that musical.ly's primary focus at the
time was and continues to
be the health, vibrancy and positivity of their community.
While marketing over social media requires an investment
in time and a commitment to experimentation, always
be sure to add value to the
conversation.
But there
was a
time when we
were looking to enter into the U.S. market and we
were in conversation with Target, and John questioned whether that
was the right move.
The
conversation on women
in media has
been ongoing and
in 2015, the L.A.
Times reported striking numbers on gender diversity from the «big six» studios: Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Sony, and Paramount Pictures.
In a surreal conversation with the customer service rep, Ferrari said the word «cancel» more than 20 times, and yet he was still spun in scripted circle
In a surreal
conversation with the customer service rep, Ferrari said the word «cancel» more than 20
times, and yet he
was still spun
in scripted circle
in scripted circles.
They will receive your message through whatever medium or device
is convenient for them, and you can both have a
conversation in real
time.
Context — e.g., who said what and why, when they said it, who they know, how often they engage
in conversation —
is difficult even for humans at
times.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters have suggested that the now - notorious 2005
conversation made public by the Washington Post on Friday —
in which Trump
is heard making sexually explicit comments about women while TV personality Billy Bush eggs him on —
was typical of the kind of harmless «locker room talk»
in which men engage
in all the
time.
Once you take the
time to listen to the answers and formulate your next question based on that answer, then you'll
be in an engaging
conversation centered around a common goal, and the other party might just forget that they
are speaking with a salesperson.
The question she
was asked by
Times moderator Andrew Ross Sorkin
was also
in reference to a
conversation that the
Times had earlier at the conference with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, relating to issues involving domestic violence.
Specifically, they viewed their results
in the context of efficiency, noting that those who brushed off
conversation were trying to make the most of their
time.
It
's one that I come back to
time and gain
in my
conversations with clients
in the recruitment marketing space.
«By engaging
in meaningful
conversations, we manage to impose meaning on an otherwise pretty chaotic world, and inter-personally, as you find this meaning, you bond with your interactive partner, and we know that interpersonal connection and integration
is a core fundamental foundation of happiness,» Mehl told the New York
Times.
With more Olympics ahead of her, Ledecky may one day
be in the
conversation with Michael Phelps for greatest swimmer of all -
time, if she isn't there already.
Send a personal message to tell them how great it
was to meet them, set up a
time to meet again if they
're in town, or join groups that they
are a part of to engage
in conversation.
Page 19 shares one: «When it
's time to end the
conversation with a new contact, find a way to turn it into a greater networking opportunity, both for you and for them, by broadening the circle... ask them to introduce you to someone
in your field.
Building stewardship
in family members means holding regular family meetings to involve other family members
in the key
conversations so they understand the
ins and outs of the business and
are prepared to take it over when the
time comes.
And that way your pitch actually becomes a
conversation because you come
in with a plan, you already know how you can work together... do a lot of work ahead of
time so you can share what you
're excited about and why it works for your potential partner.
For the first
time ever, the bot that
is changing how we shop, how we use our phones, and how we experience
AI is able to engage
in normal
conversation, not requiring that you say her name after an initial question.
«If the Fed wasn't so scared of their own shadow
in 2015 and 2016 and hiked rates three
times each year, we wouldn't
be having the same
conversation.»
There
's no shortage of reasons, from wasting
time in entirely unnecessary get togethers, to overlong scheduling, and meandering
conversations.
«If you stay
in the
conversation the whole
time, you might not know if [the person]
is interested or
being polite,» Hussey said.
And several Democrats said recent
conversations with Springer, as well as his schedule, suggested he seemed to
be more seriously interested
in running this
time than
in years past.
When it works correctly, there
's no distinguishable
time lag
in conversations.
Some version of that
conversation likely plays out every
time a treadmill desk arrives
in an office — and these days, more and more
are.
In initial conversations, make sure there is ample time talking about the importance or desire they have in fixing the problem, in addition to the actual landscape of the proble
In initial
conversations, make sure there
is ample
time talking about the importance or desire they have
in fixing the problem, in addition to the actual landscape of the proble
in fixing the problem,
in addition to the actual landscape of the proble
in addition to the actual landscape of the problem.
Hollywood veterans also told Deadline that Fox Searchlight needs to keep the
conversation around the movie focused more on the issue of race at a
time when racial tensions
in America have
been on the rise.
Fortune and
Time gathered 100 global chief executives yesterday
in lower Manhattan for a day of powerful
conversations about how the private sector can do well by doing good — which, as Fortune subscribers know,
is the theme of our annual Change the World issue.