Sentences with phrase «wrong person doing»

The problem isn't simply that the pastor has got it backwards (wrong person doing the washing) but rather that he's turned something that was real practical help into a symbol, a sacrament.

Lawyers don't send emails to the wrong people do they, or at least extremely rarely?

Not exact matches

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

Most people, myself included, write to - do lists in the wrong way.

The kid without a college degree or the woman who was told she didn't have leadership potential often possesses a burning desire to prove other people wrong.

You don't want to send the wrong «thank you» note to the wrong people.

And while there's nothing wrong with enjoying time off on the weekend, successful people don't dread Monday mornings.

Basically, the argument was, if you're going to spend decades with a person you're going to miscommunicate, you're going to misunderstand each other, you're going to have situations where you don't get where the other person is coming from or you make the wrong assumptions.

Harris admitted that Google doesn't «get it right in every instance» and that «we are the first people to hold up our hands and say if we get it wrong, how we are going to make it better.»

Meddling in the wrong ways or too often can either produce a culture where people don't like to take actions because they know you'll eventually just step in anyways, or — equally badly — the company gets unfocused from the constant interventions.

What do you think you guys are doing right that other people are doing wrong?

Is it because of the good work your company is doing, or is it because you said something you shouldn't have to the wrong person?

«What it has to do with is the fact that the person is not humble enough to accept responsibility when things go wrong, accept that there might be better ways to do things, and they just have a closed mind,» says Jocko Willink, coauthor of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.

«A lot of people don't do that and end up investing in protection in the wrong areas.»

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

They worry that they'll say or do the wrong thing and they picture other people being horrified by their behavior.

We need, to understand that they are fictional people, who are able to do things that real people can not, but I'm talking more about identifying with their moral code, their values in helping others and doing right from wrong.

It's very easy for people to kind of lose track of what they're doing right and what they're doing wrong.»

There's often nothing wrong with what everyone else is doing; it's just that interesting people are innovators, who break conformity to pursue new, exciting, and yes, interesting ideas.

Most people don't set out to be mean or stupid, so give them the benefit of the doubt until you have contrary information that proves you wrong.

If you don't work to get the wrong people out of the company quickly, you're only really working on half of the business.

There's nothing wrong with eliminating information from your résumé that you don't think will help strengthen your candidacy (whether it's an unrelated master's degree or a job outside your field), but having a bachelor's and five years of experience isn't the type of thing that is going to make people think you're shockingly overqualified for and unhireable for a tutoring job.

[Technologies like Gchat] make us think that because the technology is «instant» and free, people should respond instantly — and there's something wrong when they don't,» adds Pang.

In the CFO role if people are still calling you a bean counter, either they are very ignorant of your role or you are doing something fundamentally wrong in the performance of your duties.

It didn't fit and led me to hire the wrong kind of people for the company I sought to build.

We want to make sure the potential franchisee fits right because we don't want to go into a market with the wrong person and then have it flounder on us.

«I pray every day that God will put all the right things, all the right people and the right projects in my life and to take all the wrong things and the wrong people out, and I really pray and believe that he does so I have to swallow my pride and take those things as answers,» she added.

INSIDER spoke with both Duncan and Hattendorf to discuss the common moves people do wrong.

When I decided to come on board as a startup co-founder, I created a list of the best people to connect with to help guide me and (in some cases) tell me what I was doing was wrong.

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

They don't feel bad for people they've wronged, and they don't feel guilty about any of the negative actions they've taken.

While you were probably right from a moral perspective (judging people by their appearance remains a crappy thing to do), apparently from a scientific one, you were pretty much dead wrong.

«But he's wrong in that, if it's a good idea, there are going to be other people doing it.

The California startup is good at what it does, commands an eye - popping valuation, and is led by a mercurial CEO whose aggressive tactics sometimes rub people the wrong way.

Most people don't start a business thinking that they're going to do the wrong thing.

The Peeple controversy, in essence, demonstrates everything that is wrong with the internet: Normal persons — who are typically kind, polite, and relatively good communicators — are moved to voice things online in a way they would never do face - to - face.

Apologizing doesn't always mean you're wrong and the other person is right; it means you value your relationship more than your ego.

When you don't know which people are selling your stuff, you don't know if they're selling to the wrong places.

«If the people interaction is wrong,» Champion says, «it almost doesn't matter what hard work has gone into a sexy - looking brand identity.»

And here's what many people tell me about data: «If you're not measuring everything, you're doing it wrong.»

And don't get me wrong, we got a lot of white liberal votes, but they tended to be people who were involved in social justice.

People object to a system that they see as being dominated by big pharma, a system that intrusively asserts control over our lives, telling us what's wrong with us, and telling us what we must do in order to get better (as they choose to define «better»).

We don't want to drop the football — make mistakes or hire the wrong people.

It needs a complete overhaul, because, as do many family relationships, it creates a blueprint for systemwide dysfunction, characterized by poor social skills, unprofessional behavior, bullying colleagues and inferiors until they become successful enough to bully others — or, if they decide to leave, cutting them off completely, disowning them like a son or daughter who's married the wrong person.

Sometimes people who violate your rights simply don't know they are doing something wrong.

When I was doing «Outliers» I was struck by how often when successful people described their lives, they would talk about the things that went wrong or the things that were hard, as opposed to the things that were easy or went right.

If we ever do have a real fundamental sell - off or recession, people are worried that there's going to be unlimited selling from these strategies, but I think that's wrong.»

Beyond the work the company has done to keep the wrong people out of the phone, Apple claims that Face ID will let the right person in even in the dark, while wearing glasses or a hat, and after growing a beard.

[W] hen you assume positive intent, I think often what happens is the other person says, «Hey, wait a minute, maybe I'm wrong in reacting the way I do because this person is really making an effort.»»

«Pay close attention to what people say your competitors are doing right that you might not be doing right,» he says, «and what they are doing wrong that you are doing right.»