Sentences with phrase «by narrowing your focus»

With new capabilities, the company hoped to improve its demand forecasting — specifically by narrowing the focus from warehouses down to individual customers to better predict how much of which products was needed on any given day at any particular store or vending machine.

By narrowing your focus based on specific criteria, you can spend more time on prospects that align with your ideal customer profile.

A House of Lords spokesman said: «The Electoral Reform Society's calculations are undermined by their narrow focus on spoken contributions.

Though its cataclysm is global, this high - concept monster movie works by narrowing the focus.

«By narrowing our focus and scope, the Marvel Heroes team can ensure the best possible experience on console at launch,» says Gaz.

How to train new associates or contract lawyers to deliver unbundled services by narrowing their focus to the task at hand

Should the firm improve its service by narrowing its focus?

By narrowing your focus in this way, you're able to make progress on what matters most.

She charges $ 300 to $ 1,000 for her services and she, too, starts by narrowing the focus.

Traditionally, professional services to assist people with illness and disability have been limited by a narrow focus on the individual, on the terminal phase of progressive diseases, and on family deficits or «dysfunction.»

It is taught by narrow focused intellectuals who have little understanding of the real world.

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But focus, by definition, narrows the scope of our thinking, and given how complex and fast moving most business problems are, we should relearn the skill of simply opening our mind and giving ourselves half an hour to think, in an unstructured, creative way, about whatever pops up.

Valeant Chief Executive Joseph Papa is working to narrow the company's focus to its dermatology, gastrointestinal and eye care businesses by pruning other assets to repay its debt of nearly $ 30 billion.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

This eleven - year - old file - sharing and content - management company was Inc.'s 2013 Company of the Year — and now it's made the 2017 Founders 10 list by keeping its focus narrow.

Unlike large companies with many stakeholders, a focused entrepreneur in a niche market has a leg up in building community by virtue of their common bond around a narrow topic.

For Spectra, they do have some West Coast operations in Canada, but I like the narrower — it's not a narrow focus by any means, because it's one of the largest pipeline companies in North America, but it's a more narrow focus than Kinder Morgan is.

By the time Pius X died in 1914, the Vatican had in place two entirely different Thomisms, one broad and oriented to social questions, the other narrow and focused on capita that could not be debated.

But if any did, it was this narrow usage that betrayed them by leading them to focus on the book itself as a sacred object, unrelated to the God of whom it speaks.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

Thus the liberal arts were separated from the rather narrow focus on Christianity that characterized their medieval and early Protestant form, while being reshaped by the influence of the Renaissance.

When he / she tires of your narrow - focus and offensive self - interest, you will simply be deselected and replaced by a less troublesome species.

In the least, they will more likely tend to focus on narrow issues critical to their view of the world as colored by their evangelical faith, rather than logically solving the problems that need to be solved.

Knowing that home court advantage has been chronically overvalued by NBA bettors, we opted to narrow our search by focusing solely on road teams.

Our first step in creating a winning contrarian system was to narrow our focus to solely road teams by selecting the «Home / Visitor» filter.

The first move was to narrow our focus by examining games in which the total was at least 8.5.

He unveiled a two - pronged approach to narrowing the health gap; by improving access to primary care and focusing on prevention as much as treatment.

Thus, as Marshall Ganz has warned since the early 1990s, in the vast majority of districts where elections are not effectively contested, the new political targeting may in fact narrow the electorate by helping campaigns focus on an ever more clearly defined plurality of highly motivated and highly partisan supporters who turn out on a regular basis to return the incumbent to office.

«The English Bac, by focusing on such a narrow range of subjects, may prejudice the National Curriculum review and should not have been introduced before this had taken place.

A 2005 UN agreement on the R2P resolved these concerns by avoiding any legal obligations, defining R2P as a «UN responsibility to protect» and subject to negotiations within the UN Security Council, and narrowing the focus of the R2P to four specific crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing or mass atrocities.

First, the pessimistic one outlined by Marshall Ganz in the early 1990s, suggesting that ever more precise targeting of voters will narrow the electorate by leading campaigns to focus their efforts on fewer and fewer people leaving others outside the process.

We have bigger concerns than a narrow focus aspirational skilled working class voters at the moment, and anyhow Rentoul's argument assumes that group's attitudes and priorities have not been affected by the recession.

Responding to the Church of England he commented, «Arguing for an inclusive national identity focussing on the common values that unite us rather than one narrow identity which we don't share is not motivated by anti-religious sentiment but by a genuine concern for social solidarity.»

We did it by focusing on a narrow communications and voter contact program governed by the targeting.

By the end, when it became clear there was no such thing as a «soft» SNP voter, our campaign in Scotland narrowed its focus to an appeal to Conservative and Labour supporters to vote tactically in Liberal Democrat seats to keep the SNP out.

By continuing to focus on these niche issues, Labour and the Tories continue to give the impression that they are only concerned with topics which affect their own narrow party interest.

Hein wrote that the legal review conducted by DSS staff focused on a very narrow question: whether the warrant checks violated the agency's confidentiality rules.

Far from narrowing their career prospects by focusing less on publications and grants, she argues, the changes will give CTSA trainees more options than their peers.

In the study, the carotid narrowing data came from vascular ultrasound tests performed on 307,444 tri-state area residents during 2003 - 2008 by Life Line Screening, a leading community - based health screening company focused on evaluating risk factors for vascular disease.

The investigators optimized the image resolution and acquisition time to under five minutes by adopting a 1.5 millimeter - thick scintillator, which picks up gamma rays as they are emitted from within the body, and a 1 millimeter pin - hole collimator, which acts like an aperture to narrow focus on a particular field of view.

This strategy was intended to help narrow the complex NCD issue by focusing on four diseases: diabetes, CVD, respiratory disease, and cancer, and four risk factors: tobacco, physical inactivity, alcohol, and diet.

First, it is helpful to focus clinical practice sharply; not only to a subspecialty, but on an even narrower niche where one is the expert in only certain diseases within that subspecialty; by narrowing the scope, clinician - scientists find it easier stay on top of the rapid advances in both clinical and research fields.

For example, people in the study consistently associated narrowed eyes — which enhance our visual discrimination by blocking light and sharpening focus — with emotions related to discrimination, such as disgust and suspicion.

They focused on sugars, which are produced in the leaves by photosynthesis and transported through tubes 20 times narrower than a human hair to roots and new shoots.

We focused on a conservative set of 125 loci that were identified by at least two of the above methods so as to limit method - specific bias and narrow the list of candidates.

Through this process, the scientists were able to narrow their search and focus on the genes that were both mutated in head and neck cancer and hijacked by HPV.

You can even narrow the focus of your training to specific body parts by alternating between bodyweight exercises that isolate target muscles (the ones you don't want to melt).

You can also work different parts of your back by altering the way you grip the bar, for example, taking a wide grip will work the upper lats, whilst a more, narrow grip will focus more on the lower lats and biceps.

You can search by dietary requirements and narrow your focus to your desired needs.

Perhaps you might find yourself a bit anxious and unnerved by this liberation; maybe in a way it's easier to narrow your life focus to calories and consumption.