Sentences with phrase «firm back a step»

This, at a time of sinking oil prices, set the firm back a step or four.

Not exact matches

«You have to take more than just a step back,» says David Omholt, president of Plano, Texas - based franchise consulting firm Entrepreneur Authority.

At a time when a firm hand feels necessary, take a step back and consider a gentle touch.

In addition, over the nearly sixty days since the President's Memorandum, many firms have assumed that the Department is likely to grant a delay or even repeal the rulemaking, and stepped back their compliance efforts accordingly.

«Every penny counts, but if we step back and I'm looking at earnings of $ 6.60 per share this year, 2 cents is an easy concession if the president - elect listens to some of the company's bigger concerns,» said Howard Rubel, a senior equity analyst with Jefferies, an investment banking firm in New York.

Career Step LLC, backed by private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners, has acquired Panacea Healthcare Solution, a technology - enabled consultant for the healthcare industry.

Sean Oldfield, founder and chief executive of Castle Trust, has decided to step down after seven years as CEO of the firm he founded in 2011 with backing from J.C. Flowers & Co., the US private equity firm.

- Devine is an attorney at Pope & John Ltd., the firm founded by Cook County Board President Richard Phelan, and recently stepped aside as president of the Chicago Park District board, a post he accepted with the backing of Mayor Richard Daley.

Put the spring back in her step with the gift of firmer, smoother, more elastic skin.

Mr. Speaker, Government streamlined ESLA flows to accommodate all the existing legacy debts (about GH cents 10 billion) owed by the energy sector firms to banks and suppliers, and took steps to issue an ESLA - backed bond to pay off these debts.

«It does seem to take a step back in terms of the firm tone of the 2007 statement.»

I'm a firm believer that blogging should always be fun, and if it ever becomes tedious then it's time to take a step back.

As much as I love creating content and staying tuned in, I'm also a firm believer in stepping back and slowing down the pace!

Ultimately, the Ford is still the car that will delight drivers most with its raw ability, but the GTi 30th is a big step forward for Peugeot, showing that the French firm has got some of its mojo back.

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In listed form, Katie Ross, education manager at American Consumer Credit Counseling, offers her own step - by - step program to get back on firm footing after a bankruptcy.

Stepping back, I start to perceive a clear, symmetric architecture of firm but shallow depth.

Maybe one has to step back a few decades after all to escape the derivative, as with a lovely and firm look back at Ralph Humphrey and shaped canvas.

We've also taken a step back and determined the lessons you can incorporate into your own law firm marketing.

We thought that would be a great idea because we could move back near our families, I could step back off of partnership track but stay with my firm and that's what we did.

Perhaps cutting back on inter-office trips and relying on Web technology and other virtual meeting strategies could serve as the firm's first step to reducing its carbon footprints.

It's worth taking a step back to re-evaluate your firm's social media efforts to adopt a more holistic approach.

Maybe that's high, maybe it's more 60/40, but I think it's that way because the volume still demands it and ultimately because of the way our firms set up because we have a blend of attorney's who are independent contractors versus W2 employees so the way our firm is setup, the firm still currently relies on me to be a significant revenue generator for the firm and if I step back where I was doing more marketing and managing than attorney work, we would see I think a significant impact on the financial end without me continuing to be a revenue generator, and that's something I'd love to tackle longterm because frankly the best advice I got in this process when I was considering expanding was do you want to be an attorney or do you want to be a business owner?

To break free from the cycle and set your law firm up for growth, you simply have to force yourself to take a step back and re-evaluate the way you do things.

Aaron Street: I guess with today's conversation with Nicole about technology design and access to justice, it's another good opportunity for us to step back and kind of chat about what this access to justice goal is all about and how our listeners and the small firm legal community in general can support it in a way that makes sense.

Aaron Street: I think part of the issue is stepping back for a moment to plan out your goals and needs for your firm and to recognize that all technology tools are just tools and so first you have to answer the question of what problem needs to be solved.

The PR adviser will step back and explain what people are talking about outside the firm and help it join that conversation.

I think firms can step back and really take a hard look at that and say do we feel like we have adequate representation, not only of gender, let's get it all at one time, racial diversity, ethnic diversity, and so on, but really take a hard look at your committees and make sure that you are being representative of your firm in such a way that you can produce policies and procedures that are going to help you retrain that talent that you've worked so hard to recruit.

We mitigated successor liability, although not always enough and some suitor networks stepped back from taking onboard a particular Andersen firm.

This isn't about used cars or anything so Billie will offer a bunch of great ideas there but it's worth stepping back and kind of mapping out for your firm and your practice, what are the steps the client has to take from being aware of you whether that's through a SEO rankings or hearing you speak, to wanting to reach out to your firm to what happens when they do and are all of those things mapping to the process of turning them into a client.

A lot of people have taken a step back, and had a good look at their own firms.

While nothing is guaranteed in life or law, attorneys and firm management consultants say taking a step back and looking at the big picture, whether you're a solo practitioner or at a large firm, is essential to knowing where you've been, where you're going, and how you will keep growing.

Well, I've planned the agenda, designed content, and presented at or facilitated over a dozen firm retreats and one thing that makes the difference is taking a step back to figure out the goal of the retreat and where it fits in with your strategic plan.

I know there are solo attorneys that basically step back from a big firm gig and only take on a small caseload.

January is a good time to step back and review the financial health of your solo or small firm business.

So make sure you step back to plan what your law firm is trying to achieve and how best to get there.

«Firms need to step back and think, how do we build a team that works?»

Your firm can become more than just another law office by taking a step back and rethinking your marketing approach.

But step back and look at all the ways your clients are interacting with your firm.

If your firm's vision or values don't match up to your own, you need to take a step back.

For this blog post I am going to step back into my world as a bar association's director of marketing and align it with the world of law firm business development.

So I would humbly suggest that it would behoove the decision - makers at large firms to step back and take a look at the big picture and then rethink their policies and attitudes about emerging technology.

Look at every single process in the firm's back office and find ways to eliminate redundant and wasteful steps.

Many firms are already taking steps toward cost optimization by increasing efficiencies and better aligning their back office processes for greater profitability.

The first step in my process was to write to the Tech GC Google Group, an organization of General Counsels of leading venture capital firms and venture - backed companies with chapters in New York City, San Francisco, and Boston, to find out what services members were using.

Gathering this information, the team can step back to identify the characteristics of the majority of the law firm members who would be playing the game.

But if your firm's vision or values don't match up to your own, you need to take a step back and consider what you can do.

Bennett Jones was one of the first national Canadian firms to step into the cannabis space back in 2014.

But the test firm found T - Mobile making clear strides in 4G speed and availability while Big Red's 4G download speed took a big step back.

And what began in the lab as far back as 2014, took yet another step yesterday when the firm announced (not without a few hiccups) that its initial coin offering (ICO) for subsidiary tZERO had commenced.