Microsoft reported quarterly profits yesterday that surpassed Wall Street's expectations -- ignoring, as most securities analysts do, a big charge for bad investments in telecommunications and cable-television companies.
But The Campaign exceeded my expectations by ignoring partisan politics and instead poking fun at the realities of modern campaigning, the role of wealthy donors, our gaffe-obsessed media, and, in the end, on voters themselves.
Some of that is because of the work of women like these five, who pushed against those expectations or ignored them altogether.
In this case, one tends to pick the significant effects that confirm expectations and ignore those that do not.
It has been over for a while, the drip, drip effect of a football club in demise, the slow lowering of expectations, the blind ignoring of reality.
We developed communication structures and learning opportunities, which complemented their traditions, realities and expectations instead of ignoring them.
Instead, you came back with a verbal offer at an unrealistic price expectation which ignores a full 39% premium already reflected in Time Warner Cable's stock (as of last Friday), widespread shareholder endorsement of a deal, and Time Warner Cable shareholders' approximately 45% ownership in the upside of the proposed transaction.
Despite the data telling us one thing, it seems like we have a hard time ignoring cultural expectations that run counter to the numbers.
To his cousin Bob, a kindred spirit when it came to ignoring family expectations, he wrote: 'My daily life is one repression from beginning to end.' From Fife, he whined to his mother: 'I am utterly sick of this grey, grim, sea-beaten hole.' Eventually, he plucked up courage and spat out the truth.
Furthermore, the focus on behaviour negates every other aspect of that person – their needs, motivations, emotions, thoughts, past experiences, desires, prejudices and expectations – as well as ignoring the structural (economic, political, familial) forces that shape that individual's exposure to risk.
The question is not "can I do it all?" but "can I do what's most important to me and my family?" I have had to let go of my own expectations in some cases (I love to cook but can't cook most nights), ignore expectations others have (I can't always volunteer where I'd like to), and create balance with my husband in sharing the many, many duties of parenthood.
