Sentences with phrase «at doing things on»

Even as autonomous robots get better at doing things on their own, there will still be plenty of circumstances where humans might need to step in and take control.

Not exact matches

Since you can't rely on what candidates say they will do, you can learn a lot from things they have already done — while not always the case, the past is at least a fairly reliable indicator of the future.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Still, one thing seems clear: The glitch would never have happened if the banks hadn't insisted on classifying Coinbase purchases as cash advances — despite the fact that the U.S. government does not currently consider cryptocurrencies currency at all.

«The biggest thing we've landed on Mars is the one - ton Curiosity rover in 2012,» Jones says, «and that was at the limit of what we could do technologically.»

Just the sheer scale of it is also challenging, because you've got ta lay out the carbon fiber in exactly the right way on a huge mold, and you've got ta cure that mold at temperature, and then it's... just really hard to make large carbon - fiber structures that can do all of those things and carry incredible loads.

And certain things are better done on the federal level than at the state level: national defense, a monetary system, interstate commerce (including highways and aviation), the National Park System, and international diplomacy.

«The U.S. war of words with Mexico is dangerous, and Burney, among others, is convinced the first thing that Canada has to do is abandon the Three Amigos relationship,» Solomon wrote at Maclean's on January 30.

Raaja Nemani, CEO and co-founder, knows that when you are starting out that you can't focus on too many things at once but rather do one thing really well.

Last week, Benjamin Tal, an oft - cited economist at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, kept things going with a note on what could be done to restrain international demand.

They were asked to rank themselves at that moment in time on statements like: «I feel like most of my life lies ahead of me,» «My future seems infinite to me,» «Time is slipping away,» and «I have a lot of time in which to get things done.»

But that position relies at least in part on the belief that they really are doing things «faster, cheaper, and better.»

Don't waste time languishing at a job that has you focusing on improving weaknesses (things you'll never be talented at).

Raaja Nemani, CEO and co-founder of Bucketfeet, knows that when you are starting out that you can't focus on too many things at once but rather do one thing really well.

Focus on one thing at a time and get that task done before moving to the next.

It's so easy to get bogged down in email and other people's to - do lists that when you look up at the end of the day you realize you didn't make any progress on the things that are most important.

On stage at the conference, Paltrow Neumann said the first thing the couple did when they made some money for themselves was pay back the original investors of their previous failed endeavors.

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

If you really want to succeed — and I mean really succeed — stop focusing so much on what you should be doing and, instead, take a really good look at the things you should quit doing.

Also estimate how many people will try to do the same thing on your site at the same time and prepare accordingly, Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics, recently told the Washington Post.

«One of the first things he said to me when he came on campus at LinkedIn was, «Why do you need so many people to run a website?»

I get it, but you'll get much more done when you focus on just one thing at a time.

What Corcoran did next was the «smartest thing I could have done,» she says: «I collected that check from Mr. Giffuni, I cashed it at Citibank and I ran right over to Bergdorf Goodman and I blew it on a new coat.»

«We wanted to have a restaurant that really focuses on things you'd never do at home,» says Bil, who also happens to be a former national oyster - shucking champion.

«People are at their best when they're up against a deadline... Having too much time on your hands or doing things at a leisurely pace can be a mistake.

You don't have to apply this list all at once but if you can get to a place where you are doing most of these things most of the time, then you are well on your way to a more efficient day.

It's easy to look back now and say that we should have done things differently, but it would likely have been a lot harder at that time to get shippers to sign on.

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

We've done a bunch of things on campuses, participating in hackathons at University of Pennsylvania.

At that moment, I realized: I'm doing the exact thing that so gets on my nerves.

Small things such as creating a to - do list at the end of each business day, or for the week, will help keep you on top of important tasks to tackle.

I would have had to focus on trying to do 50 different tasks at once rather than learning the things that are going to benefit me the most.

«That's not necessarily a bad thing — it can signal trust, for example, and we rely on other people to remember things for us all the time, or don't bother to memorize them because we know our spouses (or iPhones) are really good at remembering.»

But one thing that's certain is that if you don't have what XPRIZE founder and executive chairman Peter Diamandis, a panelist at the event, calls «a crazy idea department,» you're likely on your way out of business.

After 11 years of studying the habit, and a lifetime battling it, Steel — now a professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business — has become the world's leading authority on not getting things done.

Part of my night routine is to look at a preview of what the site's going to look like the next day — so the very first thing I do is pull up the site on my phone to make sure they match.

«This is one of those things that's really difficult to test on the ground,» said Musk, looking much more energetic than he did at a National Governor's Association meeting last Saturday.

Despite the shift, Stumpf said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that there «was no incentive to do bad things» at Wells and laid the blame on the employees rather than the culture of the firm.

It reports that in Bologna's Eataly World you can do things like watch pasta or olive oil is made, meet cows and pigs that are treated more like pets at the facility than food, and snack on freshly cut prosciutto.

Controllers are great, but at some point we will get to where I can just put a headset on and have my hands do things.

«The thing he would do most frequently is he would throw me down on a bed and he would just put his body weight on me and he'd be yelling at me but as he was yelling he'd me grinding an elbow or knee into my body to emphasize his anger,» Holderness told CNN.

Barton remembers meeting one bright young thing on a recruiting visit to the University of Western Ontario who boasted he's been No. 1 at everything he'd done.

I've found that entrepreneurs, unlike smart people, get focused on working with whatever they have at hand and doing one important thing at a time.

But he didn't have high standards on operational process: the actions needed to «keep fixed problems fixed» and «to eliminate defects at the root,» among other things.

Unfortunately for HP, things didn't work out well on the IT services front and the company is struggling under the load at a time when large outsourcing deals are shrinking.

«You have to establish at the beginning: We disagree on a lot of things now, but when do we agree that the negotiations will end?»

Taking on and trying to do too many things at once makes for an unendingly stressful life not to mention mediocre results across the board for your business.

Indeed, sometimes it helps to sit down and focus on the task at hand rather than doing too many things at once.

«The thing I most respect about Brito is he does what he says he's going to do,» says Dave Peacock, who was president of AB at the time and stayed on for three years.

«Hang it up on your wall, and every day when you're doing things, ask yourself, «Is what I'm doing at this moment, contributing to me getting there?