Sentence examples for misdirected efforts from inspiring English sources

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.

It is not known how often these issues, which can lead to misdirected efforts or premature abandonment of promising lines of research, are considered in early studies of potential biomarkers.

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.

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

Excessive aggregation also leads to unrealistic performance targets, misinformed priorities, and misdirected leadership efforts.

Other patients, on the basis of certain prevailing lay beliefs, misdirected their efforts in seeking effective treatment.

In many developing countries, there is a lack of good mapping data and after a crisis, when up-to-date information is critical to managing events as they evolve, this absence can lead to lives lost, aid misdirected and effort wasted.