Sentences with phrase «be in the first team of»

World Cup winners have looked like they don't even deserve to be in the first team of a local Sunday League.

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The key enterprising skills I used when first starting out are the very same ones I use today: the art of delegation, risk - taking, surrounding yourself with a great team and working on projects you really believe in.

Telfer is also a big presence on the Canadian case competition circuit, playing host to the first annual Diversity and Inclusion MBA contest in 2016 and sending teams to the John Molson School of Business tournament every year.

Crammed into a small, fourth - floor office in Toronto's trendy Queen Street West area, he and his team of seven — collectively known as Blot Interactive — are crunching to get their first video game done.

Greenberg is working with a development team on the first Sloan's franchise and hopes to have three open in Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange counties by the end of 2014.

When you put first things first, you empower yourself and your team to enjoy every day of this beautiful journey and achieve heights that can't be reached by neglecting what is important in life.»

So in the case of CVS, Meyer and his team first made sure that the company's decision to rebrand was warranted: Leaders wanted to push its image as a more health - focused alternative to other drug stores.

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

The key to being successful, then, doesn't lie in working with family or not working with family, but instead is rooted in the decision of which family members to bring on to your team in the first place.

At NYU Langone Medical Center, a team is using 3D printing technology to help plan and execute «Jaw - in - a-day» surgery that was the first of its kind in the United States.

«We are excited to continue growing our team with the first fulfillment center in Utah,» said Akash Chauhan, Amazon's Vice President of North American operations.

Less heralded by history was a group of six women who worked in wartime secrecy at the University of Pennsylvania, where John Mauchly and Presper Eckert led a team that was building ENIAC, the world's first programmable, all - electronic, general - purpose computer.

In 2008, the institution's leadership team learned through the results of the first Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (HCAHPS) that patients» perception of their experience at the clinic was well below average in virtually every individual measurIn 2008, the institution's leadership team learned through the results of the first Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (HCAHPS) that patients» perception of their experience at the clinic was well below average in virtually every individual measurin virtually every individual measure.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

But because of the home's historic background — it was built in 1906 by the famed architect Dudley S. Van Antwerp, and was home to Aubrey Lewis, the first African - American to be captain of a sports team at Notre Dame and one of the first black FBI agents — it can not be torn down.

Longstreet said that his team first noticed that a lot of employees were personally interested in eating more plant - based protein products.

Why It Took Off Fandeavor's first offering was two $ 400 behind - the - scenes immersion «experiences» at the Las Vegas Invitational college basketball tournament; each package included a «chalk - talk» with an assistant coach from UNLV, two seats in a luxury suite and a basketball autographed by the head coaches of all the teams in the tourney.

The first ruling, in 1992, was overturned by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which sided with the football team based on a lack of evidence of disparagement, and on the principle of «laches.»

In an early staff meeting, when we first decided to start this project, I explained to the team that we wanted to build our tribe, because we truly believed that the world of books was falling behind the overall virtualization that publishing and other industries were going through.

Quarterback Josh Allen is projected to be one of the top picks in the 2018 NFL Draft, but a series of offensive tweets that recently surfaced could give some teams pause before selecting him with one of the top picks in the first round.

And don't forget that at the level of racing where we compete, our team is often the first time where young drivers get an opportunity to race in front of the big teams on the big tracks.

The team is the first all - female team to enter Kari's Tour de Freedom challenge in which they will ride an average of 200 km per day for six days from Esperance to Perth - raising money for the drug rehabilitation program.

In this edited excerpt, the authors offer a first - person account of sales smarts from Philip R. Styrlund, CEO of The Summit Group, a consulting and sales training firm, which proves that when salespeople and customers are on the same team, finding solutions to a mutual problem can be easy.

Born in Minnesota and now a resident of Vail, Colorado, Vonn was on Team USA for the Olympics in 2002, 2006 and 2010 when she became the first American woman to win a downhill Olympic gold medal.

«We know that the origin of [Tropical Race 4] is in Indonesia and that it spread from there, most likely first into Taiwan and then into China and the rest of Southeast Asia,» one of the team, Gert Kema, told Gywnn Guilford at Quartz.

«The First Meta team is shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and CEO Autumn Radtke,» the company said in a statement on its website.

I can't tell you how often I'm in a conversation or presentation with a major corporation's senior management team and the first topic to arise is frustration with a lack of effective internal communication and information sharing.

As the first person from a non-radio background appointed to a senior executive position in the company, Ms Wayman oversees all aspects of the MIX 94.5 and 92.9 radio stations, leads a team of 84 staff and is responsible for a $ 27 million budget.

After bringing these people on, you still aren't going to have additional dollars in your startup's pocket, but you'll be well - on - your - way to a solid team that's dedicated to gaining your product traction, which is about 80 percent of what most early - stage investors look for in the first place.

It's Microsoft's most important franchise for the Xbox, and even though it's changed hands from Bungie to Microsoft - owned 343 Industries, the development team has twice shown us it's capable of Master Chief's mantle: first in 2012 with «Halo 4,» and this year with «The Master Chief Collection,» which remastered and remixed the first four major titles with new graphics and interesting gameplay additions like playlists.

In years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with iIn years past, there might be a handful of teams fighting for last in the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with iin the NBA and the 25 % shot at the first overall draft pick (and assurance that you'd fall no lower than fourth) that comes with it.

The team's first experiment was what we call a «concierge» version of that business — walking the customer through a planned service in person, before developing what will ultimately be a software implementation of that service.

As my company's founder, I was essentially its first sales rep.. But as we've grown, I've needed to scale sales and hire new reps.. One of the most important lessons I've learned from growing a sales team is that spending time with newly hired sales reps early on can yield exponential jumps in productivity and revenue.

Running a business is a team effort, and one of the first ways to create unity is by having staffers dress in a similar fashion.

He mentioned he had just read one of my articles (one of the first ones I had written for this column) and was fascinated by the correlations I made between the culture of the U.S. special - operations community and building high - performance teams in the business world.

«Recent events have brought home for me that people are more important than work, and that I need to take some time off of the day - to - day to grieve my mother, whom I buried on Friday, to reflect, to work on myself, and to focus on building out a world - class leadership team,» Kalanick wrote in the email, obtained first by Recode.

Novophage Theraputics placed first at the event, which was held May 6 - 9 at the University of Texas in Austin and brought together 40 teams from MBA programs around the world.

With the first game of the World Series playoffs around the bend, it's hard not to feel the buildup of excitement for the baseball teams in the running.

Who hasn't faced the challenge of being asked for a document, looking fruitlessly across several shared drives, and then searching for clues among email and team messaging streams — only to be caught up in a fresh breaking issue that makes us lose track of whatever we were looking for in the first place?

Starting as the company's very first sales development representative back in 2009, Julianne Gsell is now the director of sales on the enterprise team at Box.

In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team.

The hockey team, which completed its first full season in 2012, is a bright spot in the Thomson empire, but some of its other major holdings are having a tough time.

But let's consider two major positives: First, with both patients and stakeholders investing in our healthcare system, we're all on the same team: We all want to see more positive outcomes for our loved ones and improvements in the health of our nation, both literally and financially.

Since you need to be moving at light speed to gain first - mover advantage, it often means a lot of late nights in close quarters alongside your fellow team members.

In July 2007, Sordello joined LinkedIn from TiVo, where he was part of the management team that delivered TiVo's first - ever quarter of profitability.

First, the research team asked 276 volunteers to self - report how often they swore and share details of how honest they were in various situations.

Fun Fact: Says Heath: «We've always placed a focus on staying personally connected to the mission first - hand, so in addition to hosting regular team giving events, we also developed our Hive Initiation program: On the day that each new employee joins Bombas, before doing anything else, they are given 10 pairs of donation socks to walk around the city [with] and hand out, while interacting first - hand with those living on the streets.»

The prize of the winning team on the first «Apprentice» episode is that they get to go to Trump's penthouse home in his Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

In addition to moving to a bigger office and boosting marketing of existing products, the team will spend some of the second - round cash to roll out several new products that will be their first step toward the company's future.

Keller points out that one of the reasons to own a franchise in the first place is because owners almost always make money when they sell; but in the U.S. most teams aren't making profits from attendance and TV revenues are small compared to other leagues, all of which dampens buyer interest.