Sentences with phrase «do a big thing of»

For packed lunches I normally make big batches of quinoa and brown rice with apple cider vinegar / lime and salt and then do a big thing of roasted veg — things like sweet potato and squash cubes, so I throw a mix of that into a tupperwear with some raw veg — things like avocado, grated carrot, tomatoes and then some hummus / lentils / chickpeas / seeds for protein.

We usually don't do a big thing of Valentine's Day so I'm not sure what happened here.

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Before you spend a lot of time an energy creating the next big thing, use a patent search to make sure it hasn't already been done.

Entrepreneurs dream of bringing to market the next big thing but you can do very well just by recognizing the next big thing and improving it.

The one virtue of startups that these big companies do seem to value and appreciate above all (and one that makes acquisitions so attractive rather than internal R&D efforts) is the freedom we have to embrace rapid change, the ability to adapt and pivot, and the understanding that things may never be perfect at the start, but that you'll never get started at all if you wait until they are.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

File this one under simple but powerful ideas most people never think of: «Draw all the things you need to do on a big piece of paper, and find out which things depend on other things.

They can talk about neural pathways and neurotransmitters as if those big words definitively concluded anything, which they don't, at least with our current understanding of such things.

I would take a couple of big things I want to get done like run a marathon, lose 30 pounds, and put it at the bottom of the page.

«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.»

In fact, one thing that keeps her rig on the road regularly is doing final legs of the trip for some of those big rigs that don't want to come up into the Northeast.

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.

Then he did the thing that gave him an even bigger fortune and made him a tech industry star: He cofounded Nutanix, the poster child of the unicorn - startup era.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

«This is one of the biggest things that's ever been done in the HR industry,» says Dan Benoni, CEO of Officevibe.

National Australia Bank is doing things «a little differently» from other banks by taking a big restructuring cost, says David Marshall of CreditSights.

A big part of intelligence is confidence and happiness, so boost both by pausing to list not the things you have yet to do, but rather all the things you've already accomplished.

«One of the big issues is, how do women take their place at the table and [move] things forward?

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

But look, if they sell their baby, if they have a good reason to sell it, and they don't just buy a big yacht and get more and more caviar, and then they use that money to create 10 more babies, and they are the kind of entrepreneur that likes creating new things, then yeah.

Asked what he considers his greatest achievement, he acknowledged the obvious — «the chance to be part of the software revolution empowering people was the biggest thing I have gotten to do» but made it clear it's healthcare that has his attention these days.

Jesse asserts that Apple's biggest impact has been aesthetic — that all it has done is perfected the work of the previous century and only changed the way things look:

One of the things big brands do as part of their annual planning process is a gap analysis.

As for costs, Pizza Hut spokesperson Doug Terfehr says, «While I can't share specifics of the investment, I can tell you this is biggest thing we've done in a very long time.»

Whether it's a new product or something as benign as a store layout, you don't have to look hard to find examples of (largely white) men at tech companies siloing themselves off to develop The Next Big Thing, only to discover a major, avoidable flaw after the fact.

I use to do the whole analytical thing and I am still a big fan of collaborative decision - making and have seen great things can come from it, but at the end of the day if there is no clear cut decision I ask the man upstairs.

«I will never stop making things and imagining cool and trippy things for those girls, and that will become a bigger part of what we do,» she says.

If you end up among the many who decide to begin a job search in 2018 in pursuit of your next big thing, here are two important but simple things you should make sure you do that will not only significantly increase your chances of finding a great new job but will also help you land one that you can feel good about long after the «new company halo effect» has worn off.

Choice is one of the few things that most people leave out of the equation when thinking about all of the reasons that separates those who achieve their biggest goals and dreams compared to those who don't.

Most business owners think about creating a «start doing» list, with its endless recitations of things they could be doing more of in order for the company to be bigger, better or more profitable.

And then the things that capture the demand are really these big launches that we are doing of particular title franchises.»

When it comes to struggle, I would say the biggest is the temptation and ease of staying behind a PC and doing things electronically, which sometimes keeps me from going out and meeting people.

All of this is being done while trying to simultaneously educate clients on both sides of its business about why anyone should get excited about yet another «paradigm shift» in an online space where someone's almost always hawking the next big thing.

One of the big issues, both then and now, is that RIM / BlackBerry was and is a solo player that makes only one thing — smartphones (it did try to make a second, the Playbook tablet, but flopped badly).

Before you oil the squeaky wheel, here are some things to keep in mind about the vocal minority — those online customers, trolls and / or community members who have big mouths, but don't actually represent the sentiments of the group.

The first thing we did was create a plan, and part of the plan was this big, hairy, audacious goal: to transform Canada through the power of sport.

It's probably the biggest sum of money you have ever had, and you immediately think of all the things you could do with that money: pay off debt, build up savings, go on vacation, buy a BMW, get a rare dog breed.

It's not enough to present a different way of doing the same old things; to make a real difference, the new solutions need to be bigger, broader and better all - around.

The bigger goal is just development, so that when people come in for training camp they have a foundation for how we do things and what's expected of them.

For the most critical decisions — the ones where no amount of data will tell you the right thing to do — I focus on thinking about it and then getting a big, long sleep of eight to nine hours.

«Maybe the smaller things don't seem like as big of a deal, but if everybody did it then it would ruin the landscape,» she said.

«I like that they're focused on doing one thing very well, but the more diversified your business, the less there's a chance one area will take a big bite out of your earnings when it's disrupted.»

McGee did his market research, «but the biggest thing is that I had a team of competent people with a huge amount of experience,» he says.

But self - protection is a very important thing for nations and... But I just don't like to see it... I was not a big fan of going to war and in Iraq or Afghanistan for several reasons, several practical reasons.

Because Intercom's vision is quite big, to be this singular customer communication platform for all different businesses, to communicate with the customers with the end goal of making internet business personal, there will always be things people want to use us for that Intercom doesn't yet support.

Being great at one thing doesn't mean you're great at all things «One of the big lessons is that when things are going really well, you can be lured into thinking that everything's easier than it is.

Pelcher added that if he were investigating Manafort and found evidence of possible wrongdoing, «the first thing I would do is sit Manafort down and get him to cooperate, because he's not the big fish here.»

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

Things did turn a bit somber on the topic of China, a large and important market where Uber is spending big money to grow.

'' [T] he biggest problem of success is that the world conspires to stop you doing the thing that you do, because you are successful.