The readiness is all — the ability to discern opportunities and not be hemmed in by rigid abstractions.
Faced with uncertain futures, foster youth are often called upon to take risks, adapt quickly to change, discern opportunities and threats and generally make life work, if they want to succeed, using ingenuity and tools at-hand.
Some move ahead of the pack by discerning opportunities on a new financial frontier.
How do we discern the opportunities that we should seize upon?
Finally, I suggest to those on Wall Street that you be forthcoming with your clients and as diligent about discerning risks as you are about discerning profit opportunities.
But the trip probably made me more discerning about opportunities that do arise for HayMax.
The leader of the Polish forces, Józef Piłsudski, discerned an opportunity for regaining territories that were once the part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, and since then were the part of the Prussia Empire, shaken by the 1917 Revolution and the ongoing Russian Civil War.
The world of the trading floor is chaotic: Salesmen, bombarded with market information from all sides during the trading day, struggle constantly to assimilate the news, discern potential trading opportunities in a stock and then mentally tick off which customers might be interested.
Simply present the idea to the TTO who, in the course of its diligence, will discern whether the opportunity should be considered for investment.
Social entrepreneurs at the ideation/blueprint or validation/lean experimentation stages seem to benefit from structured modules that help them apply business model basics to their ideas, test their theories of change, better understand market opportunities, and discern both the financial and social impact value chains.
It's essential to discern when a business opportunity is really on the table.
