By simply asking people experiencing headwinds about themselves and their challenges and listening without defensiveness, you can gain insight and increase interpersonal trust.
Amazon remained profitable but experienced headwinds near the close of the year.
Quantitative easing or not, we will still experience economic headwinds from the aftermath of the housing bubble, as well as from our wanton fiscal policy.1 And it will likely continue to be expressed through foreign currency volatility, sovereign credit defaults or interventions, and high unemployment.
The E.V. industry is experiencing stiff headwinds in sales acceptance for existing halo models, like the Nissan Leaf.
The president has faced a rash of bad economic news recently, and admitted in a press conference Tuesday that "obviously we're experiencing some headwinds".
An aircraft flying into such a column experiences a headwind, followed by a downdraft and then a tailwind.
Yet the Obama circle is full of people, not least the president, who have learned by hard experience to temper their hopes, and to fear the spring for annually bringing headwinds from elsewhere — Europe, the Mideast, Japan, the Gulf of Mexico — just when officials and economists were seeing "green shoots" in the economy.
But if his experience with this week's measures is any guide, his government is bound to hit strong headwinds from vested interests that grip every corner of Italy's complex, neofeudal economy.
And, of course, there are still strong headwinds from Fukushima.
But headwinds from the euro zone mean it is too early to predict an economic turnaround.
The headwinds from Government fiscal tightening are not going to die down.
