Sentences with phrase «first work focused»

When Bill Gates created Microsoft Research (MSR) 25 years ago, some of the very first work focused on AI, including speech, natural language and computer vision.

Not exact matches

It's true that focusing on the present helps you get tasks done faster, but working on your next day's to - do lists will help in two ways: First, you'll help your future self by setting a prioritized list of items in advance, and second, you'll be clearing your mind of tasks you don't need to worry about today.

Solution: Focus first on compensation and benefits, and then shift over to the overall work environment — the work culture, team building, learning opportunities, professional development, less micro management, etc..

Corporate Culture / Team Culture: Removing the Hidden Barriers to Team Success Not so much a step - by - step guide to making teams work as it is a first step, this book (from AMACOM, 800-538-4761, 1997, $ 22.95) focuses on whether a company has the culture to support teams.

If you really don't want to learn how to code and would rather focus on getting the business off the ground, look for a team or a development partner that has experience in working with first - time non-technical entrepreneurs.

As a founder you focus on first identifying the right investors, then getting introductions and finally working through the funnel with each investor.

Executives said they were working to become a «video first» platform, and identified private messaging as a growing focus.

It will be one of the main focuses of my work, if I am privileged enough to become your first lady.»

Both of those homegrown companies built a formidable strategic advantage by being first in the Latin American market, says Alan Colmenares, who worked for Intel's venture capital arm in Mexico and Brazil and now serves as a facilitator in his native Colombia for the Founder Institute, an incubator focused on tech start - ups across the globe.

This is more or less what I did (sans the China focus) with my first book, Chief Marketing Officers at Work.

«By building a first - of - its - kind organization with a mission to focus exclusively on founders working on tough tech, The Engine aims to enable startups like Suono Bio to solve some of the world's most complex challenges, «The Engine CEO and managing partner Katie Rae told Business Insider in an emailed statement.

«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.

To achieve deep work mode, your employees must first be able to access an environment that allows them to focus for long periods of time.

First, if you focus on what works, you'll start to see which types of content resonate with your audience.

SevenRooms will also focus on partnerships and integrations that allow for various hospitality tools to work together and share data, and it plans to make major announcements in that area in the first quarter of 2018.

To help young people get the first, critical work experience they need, our Government will focus investment to support internships in high - demand fields and in small and medium - sized businesses.

«When we first started Wrappup, our vision was to put back the focus on conversations itself, and let AI do the hard work,» added Ayush Chordia, co-founder and CTO, Wrappup, who will now be Director of Engineering and Applied Research at Voicera.

For example, Peter Thiel, the first outside investor in Facebook, guards his time vigilantly to make sure that he's working at peak productivity and 100 % focused on doing work that he finds gratifying.

Focus on building the life you want first, and work to make enough money to live it.

In China, JMD Education Media's Future Works is the first seed round accelerator / angel fund to focus on ed - tech startups.

Ron Rawald joined Cerberus in 2006, first working in the firm's Frankfurt and then London offices as the Head of European Real Estate focusing on property related assets and non-performing loans.

The focus of the first years project will be the development of the report, but in the following years the work will be expanded to include building a network of organisations and individuals that share the ambitions of the project.

When working in the aftermath of a cyber-attack, it is important that you retain the ability to focus on the most important systems first — some data or systems may be needed within the hour, while others may be fine if they are operational the next day.

AutoNation's used - car focus and one - price strategy is working, CEO Mike Jackson said Tuesday, following the Fort Lauderdale - based company's announcement of a first - quarter revenue increase of 2 percent and same - store gross profits up 9 percent.

He worked at first for Hsieh's cousin Connie Yeh at the 9th Bridge School (which focuses on entrepreneurship and starts at age 6 weeks).

Like the first moon landing, it requires a special breed of people working together with unusual skill, focus and determination.

Trying to stay focused and consistant — and great to see hard work paid of this first quarter.

A woman of Métis heritage, she never lost sight of how the care system uniquely impacts First Nations, Aboriginal and Métis children and youth, and made their needs and the needs of Aboriginal families and communities a major focus of her work.

First of all, the provided info is focused on how much profit you can make rather than how the system actually works.

With a selection of simple yet elegant designs, SquareSpace focuses on the visual side of things, incorporating large, stand - out images into many templates so that your work is the first thing that grabs the attention of anybody landing on the page.

«Some of those bets didn't work out and we are re-focusing on building upon what made GoPro so successful in the first place - and that is serving our customer and focusing investments on that and nothing else.»

It suggests that God is, or ought to be, our first order of business, the primary focus of our energy, love, and work.

Eric Sapp, who runs a faith - focused consulting firm with Strider, said he wasn't hired by the House and Senate Democratic campaign committees or by candidates for Congress or governor, for the first time since he started doing such work.

Lloyd, it is because too many priests conflate social work with their religious calling: «We are not social workers, but, first and foremost, vessels of Almighty God, and so must strive to keep the spiritual above the temporal — and keep our focus on Jesus Christ, the Mass, and the sacraments.

When I started my blog and instagram account last year I started following way too many people, some because of their food, some for their lifestyle or creativity, some for the aesthetics... but recently I realized that I spend so much time scrolling through my feed, comparing, feeling bad about my work, my life or simply not good enough that I decided to unfollow quite a few of those accounts, keep only the ones that make me feel good and positive and to focus more on creating, shooting, baking, styling so basically all those things that make me happy and fulfilled and being the reason why I started doing this in the first place!

I actually had the chance to eat this breakfast casserole twice — the first time was when Juanita made it for our once - a-month snack day at work (I had taken a photo of it which ended up being way out of focus), and the second time was when Juanita's daughter Ashley made this for breakfast for our department — what a nice surprise, and so thoughtful of Ashley!

Taking steps to balance blood sugar is one of the first things I focus on when working with people to improve their health.

«The business will continue to work on capturing demand and margins in the second half of the year, just as it did in the first half, by focusing on our consumer and food service volumes and those of speciality ingredients.»

With industry's attention focused on supply chain efficiencies, gaining first - hand insight of the UK marketplace was viewed as a must for all Irish producers looking to work with UK retail.

While our organization has branched out (pun intended) since its founding 30 years ago to protect temperate forests (such as those in the Appalachian mountains), and tropical forests in Africa and Asia, our first efforts were focused on the rainforests of Latin America, working with farmers and foresters there to improve their lives and livelihoods so they wouldn't have to clear trees to plant crops or sell timber.

«After that, we promised ourselves to come out of that comfort zone and be a bit more focused, especially to know that what comes first is defensive work and not just for the back four.

Often times he seems selfish, too focused on trying to get goals, and not putting in the work first.

On how the first transfer window with a new structure at club is working... «The transfer window should be banned to keep our life a bit more focused on football.»

«After that, we promised ourselves to come out of that comfort zone and be a bit more focussed, especially what comes first is defensive work and not just for the back four.

«We can not deny we are close to winning the league but we have to keep working and keep focused, as we did since the first day, (going) game by game, step by step,» said City midfielder Fernandinho.

Speaking in the run - up to the Cologne, Wenger said: «I believe that first of all he has to continue to work with the spirit he works and focus.

Butland said that the player should focus on improving his performance with the team first and work on his fitness.

It's important to stay focused on why we work in the first place - to provide for our families.

A few years ago, as I worked on recalibrating my life, my first priority was to stop working at night so I could focus on Jon and the girls.

That first day you're back at work instead of focusing on sad thoughts about your baby, you'll have taught yourself to live in the moment and at that moment you have work to do.