Sentences with phrase «doing these things for years»

Andy's father did the some thing for years at the big psych centers across NY (Gowanda, Willard, Harlem Valley), but if you must Pat, do what you are doing.

Schools have been doing these things for years now.

Not exact matches

In last year's presentation, we were really searching for what the right way... how do we pay for this thing?

Mahan has ideas for other things employers can do over the course of the year to develop a culture of civic engagement in the office:

Whereas I imagine most of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest of my career.

«While your business likely has major goals to get to in the next six months to two years, don't ignore the little things that make experiences for your customers more awesome in the meantime.

I personally identify with Macy after the loss of her dad after losing my own Dad two years ago, but I also identify with Macy's moment of realization that she needs to do things for herself.

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.

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

So Biderman, — the self - described «King of Infidelity» — who just last year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such thing as bad attention for our business» — did something that would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.

One of the best things we did for this business was spending four months in the Silicon Valley at Y Combinator program last year.

«But it was definitely a situation where they have the same core people coming to this thing for years, and they're all guys and they don't want to worry about it,» he says.

If Trump doesn't live up to his deal - making promises we could face another four years of legislative stalemate — which for many businesses may not be such a bad thing either.

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.

Before that, he was doing the actual chef thing as John Mitzewich, working in kitchens for years and eventually teaching at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco.

The beginning of a new year for many means a new opportunity to review some things your business is currently doing and decide where you can make adjustments or changes.

One thing I did initially was that I came in with lower prices and accepted jobs at a loss, so for a couple of years I had some pretty significant losses.

One thing to know: Kirk Cousins remains one of the most intriguing potential free agents for the coming year, and Washington has done itself no favors in keeping its most marketable star.

If you think your compensation committee needs greater independence and expertise, bring on a female compensation consultant with 20 years experience who has done 50 compensation plans, including ones in your industry, with no ties to management, and then watch how things change for the better.

It means driving the same car for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake of buying them.

On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

Ask yourself why you're doing the same thing you were doing last year; ask if there is a very good reason for it, and then ask again.

In true college - application style, Rosen asks for responses to things like «Tell me about a problem you've overcome this year» or «What have you done this year that makes you really proud?»

If real GDP can jump 3 % or more this year and keep doing the same thing for three or four more years after that, and we can put in place some spending reductions, we would go a long way to solving our deficit problem.

Recruited by Google for many years, Stouffer instead decided to do his own thing and eventually founded an AI - powered SEO platform that now does an impressively good job of making predictions.

For years of consistency, you have to develop systems of things like saving your ideas in a file, creating an environment conducive to writing, and knowing how to tell people you can't do something so you can write.

So you're not profitable in the model for at least three to five years, and then what you would hope is that you can start doing licenses for shoes, bags, things like that and make your money.

«One of the best things I did this year was answering these two questions honestly for myself: What is my worst self?

«Each morning for the past 15 years, I've carved out the first 15 minutes of my day to hand write my «top five» for the day — the things that I need to get done to move my larger goals forward — on a new page in a bound notebook.

There's nothing wrong with eliminating information from your résumé that you don't think will help strengthen your candidacy (whether it's an unrelated master's degree or a job outside your field), but having a bachelor's and five years of experience isn't the type of thing that is going to make people think you're shockingly overqualified for and unhireable for a tutoring job.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

«We've been doing these kinds of jokes for a few years now, and I think the key thing that we're learning is to trust our gut a little more than we usually do.

Have you ever imagined doing the same thing for 20 years and so you can even do it with eyes closed?

«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.

Nobody takes a job hoping they'll be doing the same exact thing for the next five years.

But the first thing I recommend you do when you receive a windfall is to take a «money break» and not increase your standard of living for at least a year.

«I never wanted to do research on one thing for the rest of my life, which tends to be the academic model,» says the 34 - year - old Lathan.

«[Companies] used to be able to do the same thing for years on end, but today if you do the same thing, you're going to be faced with significant business challenges,» he says.

If you're one of the many small business owners who hasn't done his or her bookkeeping all year long, this tax season will unfortunately be a stressful time as you frantically scramble to pull together all your receipts and business expenses, trying to account for every single thing you did in 2014.

«Any type of [continued] strength will do one thing: it will start to move us above this downtrend line that's been in effect for three years.»

Although it may seem like a risk to drastically change up the way you've been doing things for so many years, it's a risk you can't afford not to take.

In everything you do this year, find the KPIs by looking for the things that signal success or failure.

Taco Bell has been doing the same thing for much of this year, with a new, fancier menu featuring better ingredients designed to compete against Chipotle, not to mention a revamp of restaurant locations that's already under way.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

Of course, the Oracle doesn't worry himself with the day - to - day management of companies he owns; his biggest act of participation in four decades was in 2006 when he installed longtime Berkshire insurance man Brad Kinstler to run things after Chuck Huggins, who had been with the company 54 years and was CEO for 33 of them, retired.

Each time finding out what you could have done different and how things for the next year can improve.

I didn't know the term for it, this thing we now call a «personal brand,» but at seventeen years old I knew that having ten thousand people reading my blog every day was valuable.

But one thing that he does know is that from one year to the next, his tenants will need and demand faster and faster Internet, and provides for that in Hudson Yards» base infrastructure.

According a personal account detailing her reasons for joining, a then 21 - year - old Arthur said she «heard... that enlistments for women in the Marines were open, so decided the only thing to do was to join.»

Get off the couch and fully embrace the realization that this is your year to do things you've wanted to for so long.