When directors with preconceived notions are determined to serve as obstacles to management's plans, it's hard to find a formula for success.
Part of this process is allowing those past pains, those old mindsets and preconceived notions go.
After assessing the owners' personalities, however, Workman and his colleagues didn't find strong correlations between the humans and preconceived notions about their pups.
It was like nothing I've ever done before, and I had all these preconceived notions of the type of people who went to therapy. What would I say when I get in there?
Conjoint analysis, they think, lets them quantify what has been dubbed the "stereotype tax"—the price that the person doing the stereotyping pays for his preconceived notions.
If you can let go of preconceived notions about what makes a good technical book, the reading is great fun.
To ensure creative problem-solving, you need an advisor who isn't shackled by preconceived notions of your market.
Our preconceived notions can prevent us from trying things that could add richness and joy to our lives.
Molnar says many women new to running are discouraged by preconceived notions of what a runner should look like. They feel they could never be a runner because they don't fit the stereotype.
But science isn't supposed to care about preconceived notions. Science, at least good science, tells us about the world as it is, not as some wish it to be.
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