Sentences with phrase «get better at them by»

What I have been trying to do is to break down my skills, strengths and weaknesses, and get better at them by practicing.

Let's hope they get better at it by second half.

There are modest sales direct to consumer and we are struggling to get better at this by investing a lot of time and money into improving their sales website.

Whether it's writing an article like this one, reading a book, learning to paint, play a sport or ANYTHING — you will never get good at it by having scattered and broken focus.

Not exact matches

By getting better at honing in on the language your customers are using, you'll be able to laser - target the strategies you execute and get more bang for your SEO buck.

Read enough of these stories — as well as the avalanche of posts and articles out there urging you to up your productivity by getting up early — and you're bound to feel a little guilty if you're not naturally up and at»em at dawn.

«What's at risk is our foreign policy, that it will be influenced not by what matters — human rights, civil rights or legitimate economic interests — but by the Philippines» ability to get in the good graces of our president.»

It's even more important than how good you are at picking yourself up off the floor and getting back in the game after getting punched a few times by a client or a competitor — or one of your own folks.

If you're convinced by Cooper that you could do with nudging yourself towards including a little more solitude in your life, how do you get better at being alone?

While science figures out the best way to exercise and strengthen EQ, you can at least get started on maximizing your own inherent abilities by assessing where your strengths and weaknesses lie.

I continue to be shocked by how many leaders are bad at interviewing and therefore aren't getting the best results for their organizations.

A third of respondents to polls by various American and Canadian health organizations report getting a good night's rest at best a few times per month; more than one in 10 — some studies say almost 50 % — suffer from insomnia.

And don't get suckered by people who are better at promoting themselves than producing results.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Which is exactly the kind of thing Buffett does so well, whether it's showing up at a football game in essentially a costume, playing a ukelele at the annual meeting, or explaining how he'd gotten his investment idea by sitting naked in a bathtub.

Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting people run with their own ideas.

We try to foster greater innovativeness at our businesses with new programs or processes, we scheme to get in shape by making healthy lifestyle changes, we strive for the good life by trying to accomplish more and be happier.

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

You'll also have to get licensed by a provincial or territorial association of professional engineers, and you need at least 3 — 4 years of work experience as well as a pass on the professional practice exam.

And while our personalities are shaped by genetics, «there are still habits you can practice to get better at social interactions,» he notes.

Although this is a good general rule, your customers» habits may be different, so try experimenting, for instance by offering giveaways on different days and at different times to see which get the greatest response.

If you get approached by someone on behalf of another company that may be interested in buying your business it is highly likely that they are working for the potential buyer of your business and have their best interests at heart, not yours.

If you haven't done the best job in the past of diversifying your communications, content, featured experts, or even the people you have at all levels within your company, don't wait to get dinged for it by someone who is frustrated by it.

According to Alexandre Lebrun of Facebook's artificial intelligence division, quoted by Business Insider, «The better we get [at artificial intelligence], the less time you spend talking to customer service.

Starbucks might be ubiquitous across the United States, but Dunkin' Donuts, which got its start in 1950 at a store at 543 Southern Artery in Quincy, Massachusetts (which has some pretty good reviews on Yelp, by the way), is the regional winner.

Many startup founders come to believe that the best way to get a big boost at the beginning is by becoming part of a startup accelerator.

But ditching solid state in the first model would give Dyson a better chance of hitting its target of getting the vehicle to market by 2021, says Mr Houchois at Jefferies.

Getting Disputes Resolved, by William L. Ury, Jeanne M. Brett, and Stephen S. Goldberg (Jossey - Bass, San Francisco, 1988), has a more academic tone but provides a good introduction to alternative dispute resolution, says Mary Rowe, an ombudsman at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For example you could say, «Our competitor with similar metrics recently got financed at a $ 20 million pre-money valuation, here is why I think we're better...» Setting terms to the investor by saying something like, «I won't take less than this valuation» is the surest way to turn off a potential investor.

That doesn't mean there won't be new developments, Boeing's Ferguson said, but that it's possible to get a pretty good look at the future of human space transportation — even space transportation to places far beyond what technology is currently capable of — by looking at the various technologies already under development today and imagining how they'll complement each other in the future.

«The best profile is someone who has a really deep discipline — they're excellent at sales or engineering — but they're OK doing a tour of duty for a couple of years where they do all this other crazy stuff and they don't get insulted by it,» Vernon concludes.

Learn from the best as he uses the most popular apps to teach you development concepts — by making your own clones of current apps such as Instagram and Snapchat, you'll get a behind - the - scenes view at what makes these apps incredible.

By the time you're at the terminal it should be getting close to flight, and I've been able to get better prices because the attendants have a better idea of how much availability there is.

«Salesforce is upending that whole obnoxious paradigm by teaching these companies they've got to be better at what they do,» he continued.

There lies a major difference between those who dabble, and get by with «good enough,» versus others who consistently perform at a high - level.

Originally called «Hannan's Best Chocolate» and run by John Hannon in Dorchester, Mass., the chocolate shop first changed hands when Hannan took a trip to the West Indies and never returned (it was easier than getting a divorce at the time, apparently).

We are a country that excels at producing small businesses, but those companies will inevitably get swallowed up by bigger concerns and our best and brightest will depart for greener pastures down south.

As with any skill, you won't get any better at writing simply by reading books or watching videos about it.

Wixen, an exclusive licensee of songs such as «Free Fallin» by Tom Petty, «Light My Fire» by the Doors, (Girl We Got a) Good Thing by Weezer and works of singers such as Stevie Nicks, is seeking damages worth at least $ 1.6 billion along with injunctive relief.

Still, there's an expectation that the crop of movies dubbed the «best» each year by critics will at least get a reasonable amount of love at the box office.

«If he can position himself and get recognized as the man behind Alibaba, which he did by getting into the paper and onto TV — at that point he knew that was the best time to make a move and do something.»

«Based on the number on how the economy is, what we've got here is a well - done steak,» Kelly said at a meeting attended by Business Insider.

«We can get a glimpse of what may be in store for the United States by looking at Japan, where in a somewhat frightening parallel, economic growth has averaged 0.9 % annually over the past two decades, and just 0.7 % in the 2001 to 2010 period,» BlackRock's paper says, though Koesterich adds that U.S. demographics are considerably better than Japan's.

It achieved these goals by guaranteeing a better pension to the many workers outside the formal labor market, while at the same time giving these workers incentives to get and keep formal sector jobs.

«The only way we are going to get a good solution is by working together,» Carter told the audience at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.

He rules against a pair of Rag & Bone boots («not me»), a pair of leopard print Jimmy Choo slippers («definitely not me»), and a pair of suede driving shoes by Tod's («they've got a better selection of these at Harry Rosen») before finally settling on an artfully distressed, lace - free pair of black brogues by John Varvatos.

Our Instagram accounts that are above 10,000 followers work better and get better conversions than the pages just starting out by at least 50 percent,» Ferwerda says.

We're investors at heart, and the best way to get started investing more is by cutting out high - interest debt.

Gannett waited until Tribune released its annual financial filings in March, in order to get the best - possible public view of its deteriorating financials (a look that may have been clouded by the serial misadventures of Tribune financial irregularities, disclosed here (POLITICO: «Fixing the financials at Tribune Publishing»), and which resulted in the firing of the TribPub chief financial officer).

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