Sentence examples for amount of assertiveness from inspiring English sources

Safely coping with four-way-stop intersections was really difficult, Mr. Levandowski said, because a certain amount of assertiveness — moving into the intersection slightly to see how other cars react — is required.

It takes a certain amount of assertiveness, but it also takes a willingness to see how the process works, and not assert your opinion into it, in order to observe and become a part of what's going on.

Ames compares the right amount of assertiveness at work to the right amount of salt in a dish.

Just as passivity can have repercussions to being successful at work, so too can not knowing the right amount of assertiveness to employ.

But the research strongly suggests that if you want to season your behavior with just the right amount of assertiveness, you can't rely on your own palate, it is important to let others taste test your behavior.

In a series of studies published in 2007 by Daniel Ames, a professor at Columbia Business School, and Francis Flynn, a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, research showed that what makes a good leader is the right amount of assertiveness.

Elsewhere there was no lack of assertiveness.

You quickly learn the importance of assertiveness and allies.

His foreign policy strikes a reasonable balance of assertiveness and diplomacy.

Even the slightest gesture of assertiveness can create the pleasing illusion that you control your fate.

After his brief flash of assertiveness, he seemed more a supplicant than ever.