Sentences with phrase «about getting these this year»

I thought about getting these this year but we already have our set!

The core competencies and achievements are not all about getting years of work experience, promotions etc..

Not exact matches

Throughout the year, commercials that appear on TV get inputted into iSpot's tracking system within about 30 minutes.

At the University of Southern California this year, Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chairwoman on several boards, not only spurred students to find someone to be passionate about — but also to expand their bandwidth of diversity by getting to know people with whom they have seemingly nothing in common.

King says to expect «strong statements about basketball» this year, likely in the form of getting «innovative product» on players» feet.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

There are various theories about why the years pass as you get older.

Having observed and written about many of these problems for years, I knew I had to get in on the action.

A year ago, the term «unicorn» seemed to get bandied about as if $ 1 billion was the starting point for valuations and not a benchmark of achievement.

At this year's SXSW Interactive Festival, Austin entrepreneur Lyn Graft gives tips on how to get investors and customers excited about your new business.

The federal government is talking about getting 20 - year production guarantees before signing off on the Airbus deal.

It's getting to that time when we begin to think about lists of things we should be doing in the New Year.

He had thought that launching in the holiday shopping spree might be a boon for his campaign, but «the obvious hindsight observation is that one of the coldest months of the year is not the time to trying to get people excited about coolers,» said Grepper.

At Google, though, employees get two opportunities a year to fill out what Bock calls an «upward feedback survey» about their managers.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

«It's taken us three years to get to a place we feel good about,» Lowden said about the development process.

Jim Lebenthal is getting worried about holding the heavily scrutinized defense company into year end.

Kohl's, for one gets about $ 800 million in sales a year from Nike.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Amazon Go's opening was delayed for about a year as Amazon struggled to get the technology just right.

After realizing a successful exit selling Destia Communications, Levy took a few years off to get reacquainted with his family and get his financial plan together, and gradually began about what he wanted to do next.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Ingram: Henry, I wanted to get your thoughts about the journey you've been on for the past eight years, why you decided to sell now, why to Axel Springer, what your plans are for the future, that kind of thing.

We spent about two years working with a distillery to get it exactly right.

He noticed other men in Crossfit wearing Lululemon after he got involved in the sport about three years ago.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

We had to take what I've learned from turning around companies and growing them, and what the people here know about getting 100 million meals into Canadians» bellies every year, and mesh those skill sets.

Most people want to get some sense of outlook into the latter part of this year and into whether 2019 is OK; there has been a lot of concern about end - of - cycle issues.

Since last year, Peninsula Shops has signed up about 80 businesses, many of which, facing competition from big - box retailers and feeling the effects of the recession, desperately needed a new tactic to get customers in the door.

It's actually quite a relief to hear from someone with years of experience who has built a substantial, multi-decade career in a major industry at a global corporation (BP / Amoco) instead of a wet - behind - the - ears «expert» who's had about 15 minutes of startup success and no clue about how he or she got there, or what to do next.

United Airlines» plan to grow aggressively over the next several years was aimed at getting investors even more jazzed about its stock, which was already rallying more than its peers» this year.

Every few years, some interests on the left or right become frustrated that most Americans care deeply about the small - business community — and that concern gets in the way of those interests» policy objectives.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

«Amazon's been signaling for about one or two years that they're going to make big bets, because they can, because they've got the cash flow to do it, so that makes this less of a surprise,» said Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital.

For years economists — not to mention everyday Americans hanging out on bar stools or on Twitter — have argued about why even mediocre CEOs get paid such ridiculous sums of money.

After this, I got to work on one of my many online entrepreneurial business ideas that I've been thinking about for years but never taken action on.

The slice of patients above the age of 60 consumes about 85 % of the drugs and devices and diagnostics out there,» says Justin Stephenson, senior life sciences analyst at Vancouver - based independent investment dealer Haywood Securities Inc. «That is only going to get significantly bigger in the western world, which is the main market for Canadian health - care products in the next five to 10 years.

Yeah, he carries a cell phone (just his second in six years), but that's about as wired as he gets.

My challenge was that I got bored about every three years and wanted to move on to something different.

Author Kelly Shue, of the University of Chicago, says boards» apparent mistake is a common one, highlighted by years of research in the field of behavioral economics, and much like the way workers get confused about the effect of inflation on the real value of their paychecks.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

«People would much rather hear from someone who inspires them, someone who gets really excited about the subject of a speech,» says Travis Allen, the 21 - year - old president and CEO of the iSchool Initiative, an education - focused nonprofit based in Kennesaw, Ga..

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

If Valeant hits $ 150 a share, Papa gets to keep 100 % of the allotted performance - based stock awards, making his total pay balloon to about $ 300 million, or a whopping $ 75 million per year.

«Several years ago I realized that when I got up in the morning, I would immediately start getting anxious about the myriad of things that awaited me that day.

He was about six years older than me, so I always watched him and it got me interested.

«Here is a company that has the best movies about how we've got to help one another and how racism is wrong and how we've got to take care of our toys,» said Glynndana Shevlin, a 58 - year - old who's worked for almost 30 years at Disney.

Me and my SO eventually broke up but I didn't tell him about the affair until after we got back together and dated for two more years.

A motivational, insightful speaker has the power to boost company morale and get employees excited about the company in the new year.