Sentence examples for misdirected effort from inspiring English sources

There was panic and lots of wasted, misdirected effort – time spent glued to the idea that I must prove my intelligence, at the cost of worrying about much more important things, such as character and truthful storytelling.

Few of the situations our organisations work in are simple - and being clear about values in advance - and knowing that you share those with others making decisions in your organisation - can avoid a lot of friction and misdirected effort.

If a framework of objectives has been worked out for the whole organization, there is not so much danger of misdirected effort.

Shneiderman: Artificial intelligence has been a counterproductive and misdirected effort for 30 years.

It is now an anachronistic, intrusive and misdirected effort.

Something that once felt effortless now reeks of frantic, misdirected effort, and all the flailing attempts to connect the dots of the story mainly serve as a reminder of how little structural complexity matters if the characters, the tone and ultimately the magic get lost in the shuffle.

Hiring the wrong consultants or mismanaging them can cause severe problems in organizations — unnecessary expenditures, low morale, and misdirected efforts.

Their misdirected efforts have helped trigger today's global chaos, and frankly they're welcome to it.

There are the aid workers, who have seen their well-meant but often misdirected efforts become the target of popular rage.

The consequences of the semantic error have, we argue, misdirected efforts to develop efficient health systems.

Terrorist organizations, meanwhile, benefit from their portrayal as the beneficiaries of ivory money because it misdirects efforts to target their financing.