Sentences with phrase «wrong focus on»

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In other words, politicians and the media focus on the wrong metrics — and even when different economic measurements get a little attention, we still don't get it right.

The author of «Getting Things Done» says people focus on the wrong parts of his productivity system

Shafer says this raises the question of whether «the entire newspaper industry got it wrong» by focusing too much on digital, and not enough on print.

Focusing CPP reform on lower earners is wrong - headed for three reasons.

Host Sean Conlon advises wronged flipper Chantill to compile a hitlist of all the contractors and subcontractors that have taken advantage of her and her partner Larry... and then forget about it so they can heal and focus on finishing their project.

«Worst day» answers tell whether a person is a team player — if their response focuses on what went wrong without taking any ownership, there is a good chance they won't thrive in a collaborative environment.»

Often entrepreneurs focus on the wrong things during a pitch session, resulting in a strikeout instead of a home run.

This is like having a free focus group on what people like about this product and what is wrong with it.

A spokesman for the U.K. prime minister said the president's actions were wrong but in a sharp response Trump said that May should instead focus on terrorism within Britain.

My initial doubts — which were later proved wrong — about Apple's (AAPL) smallest laptop were focused on the device's inner hardware.

Even if tomorrow's jobs report shows strong payroll growth and rising wages, there's still plenty wrong with the economy that policy makers need to focus on.

You're just focusing on the wrong element.

So, the logical conclusion is that Mom and Dad focused on what we got wrong rather than the 92 percent or so that we got right.

It means there's a good chance you're wasting precious time, even years of peak earning potential, focusing on the wrong things to build your career and grow your business.

Understanding my partner's principles and knowing when to admit I'm wrong helps me stay calm and stable, despite my own aversion to conflict, so we can focus on what matters: love and trust.»

«It makes you focus on the wrong thing because you have to deliver what people want,» Chase said.

Focus not on what went wrong but on what you're proud of.

Companies and governments haven't done enough to trim industrial overcapacity, focusing on wrong - headed programs like Cash for Clunkers that artificially boost demand.

Research that I am conducting with colleagues Jeffrey Gandz, Mary Crossan, Carol Stephenson, Stephen Sapp and Daina Mazutis focuses on what went wrong with leadership that contributed to the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis and the devastation to people, organizations and national economies that followed it.

Zach Halmstad, co-founder and partner of JAMF Software: My best advice is to stay focused on where you want to be, and not on what could go wrong along the way.

But blanket distrust in government, framed by glaring examples of boondoggles and fueled by ideology, too often focuses on the wrong question: How big should government be?

AG: I think one of the hardest parts of startups is knowing where to focus your time and your energy, and focusing on the right thing or the wrong thing.

Teams get to this spot because they are more focused on what has gone wrong in the past, than what they can do about impacting the future.

In the same vein, some interviewers may be a little bit too focused on what a candidate's answers are, with right and wrong answers preloaded in their brains and notepads.

I don't know that my world was rocked, but the session helped me more than I thought it would, just by focusing me on exactly what Camp says is wrong with too many negotiators today: a weakness for compromise from the get - go.

This is especially true when it comes to leadership, where focusing on individual achievement gives kids the wrong idea about how work gets done.

A significant portion of the TSC hearing focused on Haldane's now famous Fish comment, as well as broader issues with economic forecasting — something that has come to the fore in the UK since economists were almost unanimously wrong in their predictions about the immediate impact of Brexit on the British economy.

When it comes to boosting sales, often salespeople and the marketing team are focusing their resources on the wrong strategy.

Maybe your marketing campaign is focusing on the wrong people.

Former PIMCO chief Mohamed El - Erian, who reportedly earned $ 100 million in 2011 alone, said he prioritized the wrong things, so he quit his job to focus on parenthood.

He resists the temptation to focus on right or wrong; rather, Khosrowshahi helps his people understand how perceptions differ, and the reasons behind this.

People are focused on the wrong thing.

«I didn't see anything wrong with getting married, having kids, and focusing on my career,» he says.

One can do this by reading critical reviews that all focus on the same negatives; if most critics are saying something is wrong, it probably is.»

To answer what's wrong with that, imagine a powerful blowtorch focused on your legs for a prolonged period.

We love the election - year attention but the presidential candidates are focusing on the wrong things

One can do this by reading critical reviews that all focus on the same negatives; if most critics are saying something is wrong, it probably is,» King wrote.

Taking responsibility when things go wrong instead of blaming others isn't masochistic, it's empowering — because then you focus on doing things better or smarter next time.

But, too often, we focus on the wrong things; we focus on what we don't want rather than what we do want.

Too many startups focus on the wrong things — like fancy offices and over-the-top amenities — and forget that generating revenue should be their top priority.

In the past it was a struggle for me to listen to a presentation when I walked off the stage because it was painful with all the focus on the things I did «wrong.»

Successful businesses focus on satisfying and delighting the right customers and redirecting the wrong ones to the right place before they get hurt or hurt your business.

Mr Obama's State of the Union theme was precisely wrong, in other words; America needs to focus on helping the rest of the world catch up as fast as possible.

«The fact that he can register what looks like a massive drop and still collect a massive number shows there was something wrong with the original plan,» says Stefan Stern, director of the High Pay Centre, a U.K. think tank focused on pay.

No, you should have * three * recessionary concerns: If / When the next recession hits, it will be painfully obvious that the Fed's forecasts were wrong and it has spent too much time peevishly focused on non-existent inflation, treating the 2 % «target» as a ceiling.

Many drivers of inflation work with a long lag, so focusing on current data can lead to some wrong conclusions.

It's rather a meta problem: I suspect Zuckerberg's own bubble makes him inclined to dismiss the possibility of filter bubbles, while the bubble Facebook's most strident critics live in means they too are focusing on the wrong thing.

One the first blunders that we see brands make is focusing on the wrong KPIs and search metrics.

We do that naturally, both at the workplace and when we work in groups the focus is on what can go wrong.

It's just that most investment professionals spend their time and energy focusing on the wrong active decisions.