Sentences with phrase «for approaching things»

But I think the major thing to take away is that it's vitally important to get started doing SOMETHING, and your ideas for approaching things thematically makes a heck of a lot of sense.

Not exact matches

This is the first thing we talk about in Lean Startup because you can not do any of the techniques of Lean Startup — the rapid experimentation, the scientific approach, the broad development — none of it makes any sense and can't work unless you have a vision for what you are trying to accomplish.

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

The other thing about this approach is that you'll either need to spend as much time on sales as on making your food item or you'll need to hire someone or take on a partner to do the sales part for you.

A smart approach to compensation studies will help your company attract and retain talent — while avoiding stumbles that could punish you for trying to do the right thing.

To make things easier for you, start by understanding two simple approaches to marketing communications: the PESO Model and the NICE Model.

«It's a way to approach major corporations and do things for them that are out of their bounds of risk tolerance,» Smith explains.

As my own company has grown, I've had to make continuous adjustments to strategy and approach every year based on business development successes and failures and a slew of other things I couldn't really plan for.

In general, a successful coaching program for sales reps should consist of two things: real - time training on mobile devices and a proactive, not reactive, approach.

Holger Mueller, who tracks the HR sector as principal analyst and vice president at Constellation Research, contends that Zenefits» revenue model is the most revolutionary thing about the company, comparing its approach to Google, which also gives away its digital services for free (then monetizes its accumulated user data by selling it to advertisers).

While Wynne's minority Liberal government said a CPP enhancement was still Ontario's «preferred approach» to strengthening the retirement income system, the new provincial plan was touted as the next best thing as governments deal with aging populations and people who aren't saving enough for the future.

Step - by - step project management may have been the right approach for Holoubek, but for Allyson Downey, founder of WeeSpring, keeping things deliberately vague worked better.

Using the Most Important Thing (MIT) approach, define your top priorities for tomorrow before bed.

It's crucial to consider strategy and think things through the first time around, and when there's a moment to choose between what's easy and what's ultimately the best approach for your business or customers, you should always choose the latter.»

One thing is certain: If Patagonia does see growth from this approach, a new arrow will emerge for placement in companies» growth quivers.

Moonves includes an off - handed acknowledgement that his policies and his approach to things like racism and press freedoms may be a concern for the country, but mostly there's just glee.

«It's tempting in a rapidly changing, rapidly growing mobile market to change for the sake of change — to mimic what's trendy and match the industry - standard, kitchen - sink approach of trying to be all things to all people,» Chen wrote in the letter published today on BlackBerry's blog.

«The approach at BuzzFeed is always try things out and see what happens, and after running a separate Canada office for awhile, it became clear that Canadians still liked the global stuff and didn't necessarily want just Canadian stuff,» Silverman said.

Sometimes, taking the opposite approach works best: Take on all the easy and smaller things on your list and save that huge project for last.

The left side of the brain, for instance, might have evolved to carry out routine operations — things like foraging for food — while the right side was kept free to detect and react rapidly to unexpected challenges in the environment — an approaching predator, for instance.

Or it can do the hard and right thing for Puerto Rico and American taxpayers by refusing to bless any approach not predicated on large - scale structural reform and extraordinarily sweeping debt relief.

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They have one thing in common: The need for a new systemic approach to complex challenges.

I took your approach though, I might as well swing for the fences while I'm young because I'll have many years to recover if things go south.

Around 2005, as John and Sue Smythe of Everett, Wash., approached retirement age, they assessed their finances and decided a couple of things: Social Security benefits wouldn't be enough to sustain them; and they wanted a consistent source of recurring revenue they could depend on and plan for.

That approach isn't surprising: As a trainee with IDS Financial Services (a predecessor to Ameriprise) in 1987, Garrett so hated cold calling that she got «sick to [her] stomach every Monday morning because [she] couldn't sell people things they didn't need,» she told this reporter for a 2002 profile in Research magazine.

Simply stated, we believe in taking a realistic approach to the economy and investment markets that starts by stepping back from all the noise and fear in the daily news and, with the aid of our deep network, focusing on the search for the world's best income opportunities and for great companies doing great things — both in North America and around the world.

For a long time I've believed that how people approach small things in life is indicative of how they go about the important things in life.

After working in a corporate setup for almost 25 years, the first thing i realised was to get rid of the structured way of approaching things.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), a name synonymous with innovation and known for its out - of - the box approach to things, has been in the news for famed developmental projects in the past.

«This ranking reflects several things that set us apart in the industry: our solutions - based approach, our integrated tools for serving clients, our support for each branch office, the training and development we offer, and compensation that reflects our values,» said Managing Partner Jim Weddle.

For one thing, Page had been on the bureau's radar for some time — as he had been approached by Russian spies in the past as a potential intelligence assFor one thing, Page had been on the bureau's radar for some time — as he had been approached by Russian spies in the past as a potential intelligence assfor some time — as he had been approached by Russian spies in the past as a potential intelligence asset.

Once I get a bit older and adapt to a more conservative approach then I can start worrying about things like ensuring my passive income can cover my expenses — for now it's all being reinvested anyway.

As we have seen time and again, things can turn around very quickly, often for no apparent reason, but historically, we have been able to take advantage of these periods due to our opportunistic approach.

I was mostly a # 3 for quite a long time, although I really wasn't selective about the OT bits left in or not (I know most taking the # 3 approach still want to keep the Ten Commandments, in particular), but I was happy to do away with the whole thing.

Non believer, approaching 70, retired US Navy, spends a large part of his week fixing things up around the neighborhood for those who do not know how, installing water heaters, replacing broken parts on automobiles, helping repair damage to piers and bulkheads (they live on the water), in general, he can fix anything, so he does, for free.

For one thing, to articulate that case above all in the parlance of religious liberty is to approach our society defensively.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

Something I'm constantly amazed by is your ability to take things that are so emotional and sometimes (for me anyway) infuriating and you are able to approach them from a place of peace, a place that is looking for common ground.

There are thousands of questions we should ask our pastors and teachers, but the most important thing for us is how we approach our pastors with our questions.

5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

If our current traditions are not allowing us to do these things, we should find something else that will, either by approaching the issue with some inspired creativity, or finding a current pagan practice that we can redeem for church use.

In the schools the lack of a clear - cut conception is evident there where a frankly pluralistic approach to the work of the ministry has been accepted and where men are prepared for the varieties of the ministry as well as the varieties of ministerial work without reference to a common function to be carried out by all ministers and by every minister in all the things he does.

The free man has no purpose here and means there, which he fetches for his purpose: he has only the one thing, his repeated decision to approach his destiny.

Whitehead approaches the question of man's desire for immortality, not by following the traditional path of the soul as having substance, but that every act, every event, every realization of value has everlasting significance and contributes everlastingly to the nature of things.

The thing was with the college was more of the academic rigour and making an argument for an approach being consistent with the Christian faith more than whatever choice was made about that.

Jeremy, I would again like to say that the thing I appreciate most about your post and what I wish others who visit this post would keep in mind, and learn from, is that you actually got out and attended a worship service with the Latter - day Saints to see for yourself what they believe and also that you approached the beliefs of others with charity and fairness.

If God wants to teach us directly but we prefer to hear from Him from pastors and priests, and if God wants to meet with us personally but we prefer to approach Him through temples and rituals, then we have substituted these things for God Himself.

Isn't that the way of things — approach a leader to first ask for permission to be a minister, be trained, create a page on the website, pick a dynamic name for it?