Listening to Arsonists

That requires listening as well as speaking.

We can develop our appreciative listening skills.

So I need to know that you have the ability to listen.

The end of capitalism means simply the end of the urge to listen to it.

Maybe now they will gain the hearing that they deserve.

America should start to listen before it is too late.

Paying attention to some of what the clowns are saying might be a good first step.

Instead of training their employees to listen, they were telling me that I hadn t made the right request.

There s the listening you do to learn, which ideally can be somewhat automated.

All of that is important, but then there s the listening you do so that your customers can feel listened to. That s something a computer cannot do.

Indeed, there are lots of depressing statistics about how poorly companies listen.

All of that is important, but then there s the listening you do so that your customers can feel listened to.

In his speech, the king asked, What is the meaning of responsibility if the official concerned loses sight of one of the most basic requirements of that responsibility, which is to listen to citizens concerns?

Politicians don t listen very well to individual scientists, but they are forced to listen when hundreds of scientists speak with a united voice.

That s something a computer cannot do. It requires a person.

This will happen as economists redirect their research efforts by listening to scientists with different expertise.

The lesson for Europe and for the US is clear it is time to stop listening to what banks say, and start focusing on what they do.

Companies spend a lot of time watching customers, trying to figure them out, but so little time listening to them.

Fitbit is not unique it s one of many start ups that are using their own customers to help them achieve greater scale in listening.

South Korea and Japan need to have their views taken into serious account if this now inevitable withdrawal is to succeed.

In the end, listening carefully is the best way to show respect for anyone, customer or partner, friend or boss.

However much one may favor multiethnic nation states, once such a construction has failed, it is imperative to listen to popular sentiment.

Rather, failure stemmed from the inherent incapacity of both parties to reconcile themselves to each other s fundamental requirements for a settlement.

The revolution is not only history for many people it is also a part of life and consciousness. Of course, this does not excuse those who refuse to listen to reasoned analysis about our country s past, but Russians will not accept glib rants.

The problem is that when these scare stories are later shown to be wrong, people become less willing to listen even to reasonable arguments about global warming.

Israel, deaf to Obama s urging, is further from reconciliation with Palestine, and closer to war with Iran, than it has ever been.

That requires listening as well as speaking. It means sticking to principles, but also attempting to understand the other side, however irrational or intransigent it may sometimes appear.

Of course, listeners must strain to hear the voices of reformists amidst the din of those calling for resistance to the enemy and a return to the pure sources of Islam.

If you actually listen to them, instead of just reading accounts transmitted through the distorting mirror of the mainstream media, you hear grievances that are profound, as well as some proposals that are actually ahead of their time.

The government knew monitors would turn up improprieties, but believes that it has nothing to hide, and much to gain, from honest criticism.

Back then, a peaceful and honest result was reached in the end because Ukraine s President Leonid Kuchma refused to heed Yanukovich s call to use violence to defend his rigged election.

Global rebalancing requires surplus countries such as China to boost consumption, while deficit countries such as the US save more (which requires sharply lower budget deficits and increased private saving). It will get a more sympathetic hearing from the new Congress than from President Obama, who was soundly rebuked at the Second G 20 Summit for demanding more deficit financed spending.

Although one would never know it from listening to the Congressional debate, the main effect of an agreement would be to lower Colombian barriers on US goods, not vice versa.

Their concerns should be heard and debated and sometimes banning is best combined with renewed efforts at civic education, emphasizing, for example, that immigrants did not cause Greece s woes.

Perhaps the best way to help Muslims is not to attempt to transplant institutions from Indonesia to the Middle East, or to give aid to American approved moderates, but simply to listen more closely to the voices of Indonesian Islam.

It was depressing to see a simple appeal for Westerners to listen to Muslim women deliberately distorted into a representation of all Muslim women as meek, will less beings in need of rescue.

Obama s victory, despite America s economic travails, clears the way for cooperation based on a sympathetic ear to others and on negotiations in which the US does not deny the legitimacy of a global public interest (as it has done, unfortunately, on the issue of climate change).

How fast America s new president addresses the Arab Israeli conflict will be of paramount concern to Europeans in this effort. For to them, Jerusalem has always mattered more than Baghdad, but George W. Bush refused to listen.

Of course, it used to be difficult to listen to customers as a company, you could not station people everywhere to pick up random comments, and few customers cared enough to write actual letters positive or negative.

I was frustrated because the hotel management was not listening to me when I asked for a quiet room or later, when I complained. Instead of training their employees to listen, they were telling me that I hadn t made the right request.