Executive in sentence

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A functioning executive that will translate will into action, because we don't have it.

We say, "Yes, we're here for equality," and then we proudly pound our chest because we'd achieved 30 percent representation of women on an executive team.

Let's look at the most successful technology executive in the business, and see how a presentation goes.

So this led me to the first-ever TED, back in 1984, and it just so happened to be a Sony executive explaining how a compact disk works.

One executive told me, for example, "Oh, we're not that bad.

They don't have a center executive branch that you can take out and cause the whole thing to fail.

It happened to me at the end of my year as Miss America, when I was meeting with a very high-ranking TV executive in New York City.

Now, as a cognitive scientist I know that this is because I was using a lot of something called executive function.

And we usually call it absentmindedness, but what's really happening is we're experiencing a lapse in executive function.

So we use executive function every day in all aspects of our lives.

But lately, executive function has become a huge self-improvement buzzword.

Well, I'm here to tell you that this way of thinking about executive function is all wrong.

Brain training won't improve executive function in a broad sense because it involves exercising it in a narrow way, outside of the real-world contexts in which we actually use it.

So you can master that executive function app on your phone, but that's not going to help you stop pouring OJ on your Cheeerios twice a week.

If you really want to improve your executive function in a way that matters for your life, you have to understand how it's influenced by context.

There's a great test that we use in the lab to measure executive function in young children called the "dimensional change card sort."

SB: So it's really compelling, and it's really obvious when she fails to use her executive function.

But here's the thing: we could train her on this task and others like it and eventually she'd improve, but does that mean that she would've improved her executive function outside of the lab?

No, because in the real world, she'll need to use executive function to do a lot more than switching between shape and color.

And it also depends on the strategies that you execute when you're using executive function in a particular situation.

I recently brought in a bunch of kids to do the classic marshmallow test, which is a measure of delay of gratification that also likely requires a lot of executive function.

And not only that, these kids likely used executive function to generate strategies to help themselves wait, like sitting on their hands or turning away from the marshmallow or singing a song to distract themselves.

It's not that these kids had good executive function or bad, it's that the context helped them use it better.

That way you'll be more motivated to use executive function.

You could teach her strategies to use executive function in that particular context, like putting her phone away before she starts studying or planning to reward herself after studying for an hour.

But what I want you to remember is if you want to improve your executive function in some aspect of your life, don't look for quick fixes.

Now, he's a rock climber, but you know, he's our executive director.

The front part of your brain, the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for your executive function, your attentional control, is now being downregulated.

In 2014, I was a corporate executive with an American multinational in India, and we were actually faced with an interesting problem: we didn't have enough women in the workforce.

It may even increase our risk of cardiovascular disease and of impairing our executive functioning, the very skill sets we need to do our jobs well.

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