Sentences with phrase «focus on growth changes»

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«The market changed its sentiment in 2014, so when we filed there was really an appetite for growth, and by the time we were ready to go out, it had switched to more focused on profitability and so we decided to change our financial profile this year,» Steckelberg said.

Twitter is telling investors to focus instead on the percentage growth of people who use it daily, but in a May 10 letter, the SEC asked for Twitter to explain «how the percentage change information provides an investor with a clear understanding of user engagement on your platform.»

«We detect greater direction at Bacardi following the change of CEO in October, and the acquisition of Patron sends a strong message on priorities: focus on the U.S., focus on higher - growth premium brands, and focus on growing Patron distribution globally,» Mundy wrote.

Notice that these solutions tend to promote growth in your team, decentralization, delegation, and focusing on your local business — changes that help most organization.

Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.

Invest early in founding teams who have a maniacal focus on product and customers and who truly want to build lasting businesses of scale in markets undergoing high growth, change, and technological transitions.

How» Conditions» can Improve: Changing the Focus from Macro to Micro While markets seem focused on macroeconomics, I continue to believe that the key to improving global economic growth is microeconomic reform.

Prior to his 2006 appointment as President of DuPont Canada, Mr. White worked across the corporation's leading programs focused on growth through marketing and sales transformation, emerging market focus and step change business strategies.

NEW DELHI (AP)-- Given a rare opportunity to lunch with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gaurav Dalmia was less interested Thursday in discussing the planned topics at hand, including climate change or even the trade dispute between India and the U.S. Instead, the Indian businessman was focused on Kerry himself — and whether he would be able to smooth over brittle relations between Washington and New Delhi for the sake of economic growth.

He is the CEO of The Hayzlett Group, an international strategic business consulting company focused on leading change and developing high growth companies.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

In addition to growth - action groups focused explicitly on «women's liberation,» a variety of all - women growth groups organized around other objectives should be available, e.g., «Women's Sharing Group,» «Enrichment Group,» «Women in a Changing World.»

The need for groups with a dual focus on personal growth and social change is illustrated by the crisis in our environment.

Personal growth often occurs more quickly by helping a person make a decision and take responsible action than by focusing mainly on changing feelings and attitudes.

In the past, cigarettes and tobacco products were the main products for growth, but Topicz is now focused on foodservice and fresh food programs to accommodate the changing industry.

SYSPRO's focus on meeting the needs of manufacturers and distributors has not changed since its inception in 1978, which enables its customers to leverage off the software for their own growth and profitability.

This alliance will undoubtedly contribute to the changing face of the dealer community as Vestar's investment will fund Edward Don & Company's «future growth with a primary focus on geographic expansion and acquisitions.»

Campbell Soup Company has announced several strategic moves to better position itself in a «rapidly changing food industry landscape» and focus on «profitable growth.»

So, if you've been dreaming of owning a business, want to change careers, want help with growth and infrastructure, and want to focus on a business that potentially aligns with your kids needs and works for your family system / schedule, check out Kumon.

He called for a change in the mandate of the European Central Bank to focus on stimulating growth, a financial transactions tax, and common European bonds to help finance a big programme of investment in infrastructure and sustainable energy.

The particular harm is that underlying «trend factors» built in to projections on year - to - year spending changes become a self - fulfilling base from which the discussion on the budget begins... for example, a change from $ 9 billion to $ 12 billion in actual proposed spending on a program area doesn't become the focus, if the «projected out - year» for that program had its expected growth going to $ 13.5 billion — instead of anaylyzing why there is 33 percent growth in that program, the interest groups and journalists cover that as a «cut» of $ 1.5 billion.

In other changes, another former NEC chair and former general secretary of the Fabian Society, Baroness Hayter, joins the Cabinet Office team and, with Lord Tunnicliffe, the team covering business, innovation and skills, where Labour said it would focus work on its concerns about jobs and growth in the economy.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

Prior research has largely focused on the negative impacts of ocean acidification on reef growth, but new research this week from scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), based at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa (UHM), demonstrates that lower ocean pH also enhances reef breakdown: a double - whammy for coral reefs in a changing climate.

The new paper stems from a National Science Foundation - funded, interuniversity research project which focuses on understanding how water sustainability in the United States has changed over the past 30 years as a result of climate change and population growth.

His Ph.D. research at Stanford focused on computer simulations of how mechanical stresses affect bone growth and adaptive changes around implants.

The focus of the debate on CO2 is not wholly predicated on its attribution to past forcing (since concern about CO2 emissions was raised long before human - caused climate change had been clearly detected, let alone attributed), but on its potential for causing large future growth in forcings.

Without being so focused on increasing my powerlifting totals, and pouring 100 % of my resources into maximizing Brad's components for muscular growth, my body changed rapidly.

Ever changing... Inspired; focused on inner growth.

Focusing on two complementary longitudinal methods — individual growth modeling and survival analysis — Willett and Singer provide new avenues for researchers to address critical questions about how things evolve and how long it takes for change to occur.

Teachers have reacted positively to these changes — they appreciate the new focus on their ongoing growth rather than an observation score.

A big change seen in about half the states is a focus on growth — how fast test scores are moving and in which direction, not just how many kids have passed a specific score on the tests.

«I encourage schools to improve collaboration by changing the conversation away from evaluations as a compliance tool — where supervision is being done to teachers — and instead focus on growth and professional development.»

Major Responsibilities Develop relationships with faculty and staff as a means to foster a positive school climate; analyze achievement and discipline data to find leverage point for system change; create user - friendly, service - oriented administrative team that focuses on overall student growth.

Work with them to identify and prioritize critical areas of growth to implement changes in a timely manner with a focus on student achievement.

Our testing practices themselves have changed very little since our inception as a school, but we've begun to use the data in a more meaningful way, restructuring our grade teams to become inquiry teams focused on the growth of students across all subject areas.

Drew Furedi, formerly the executive director of Los Angeles Unified's talent management division and now its executive director of human capital initiatives, said the piloted changes focus on evaluation as «a growth and development tool rather than a punitive tool,» which will tie results to «aligned, targeted, professional development opportunities for teachers.»

As new forms of literacies grow and change, educators need to be less focused on enlarging content knowledge among their students and more focused on involving students in the process of their own knowledge growth.

Changing the current evaluation system to focus on improved student outcomes, including objective measures of student growth, is critical to improving teacher effectiveness, raising student achievement, and meeting the objectives of the federal «No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.»

We seek to cultivate these dispositions in the teams we support and focus our support for central office leaders on leading meaningful principal growth and system - wide change.

Should their hypothesis be proven correct, that focusing on growth and non-academic indicators can improve overall school performance, the results would likely be used to affirm the change in course prompted nationally by ESSA.

Most analysts are too focused on price changes, which as dividend growth investors we are less concerned about.

Investors may attempt to capitalize on this coordinated global growth data by changing their US focused asset allocation to a more global approach.

However, recently there was a change at the helm with Charles Plowden taking over in 2015 in an attempt to improve performance and a focus on long - term global equity growth.

The primary growth filter constructed for this article focuses on year - to - year changes in earnings per share from continuing operations, looking for steady and increasing earnings annually.

We are focusing more on fast - growth dividend stocks that should be able to make up for any interest rate or valuation changes in the long run.

While many Canadian investors have their money with portfolio managers focused on value or core strategies, White believes Picton Mahoney offers a valuable diversification benefit through its approach focused on growth, momentum and positive change.

Most emerging - markets funds tend to focus on countries in Asia and Latin America rather than on emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe (although this is slowly changing and is likely to change further as Africa's demographics point to increased growth in a decade or two).

The theory is focused on the reversion of only relatively extreme changes, as normal growth or other fluctuations are an expected part of the paradigm.

Namely, after decomposing portfolio returns into three factors — changing valuation, dividend income, and dividend growth — they show that although the valuation factor has varying effects, value - focused portfolios dominate growth on both of the other two components.