Sentences with phrase «had some good runs at»

Carvalho again may take time and the Ramsey / Xhaka partnership deserves to have a good run at the start...

Ozil will only stay if we really show we are ambitious of winning the premier league and have a good run at the champions league

Coach [Glen] Mason had some good runs at Minnesota.

Joe Tiller had some good runs at Purdue.

I hope we advance to UCL and then have a good run at home.

It had a good run at SparkFun and its distributors for awhile, but alas, it is retired.

Not exact matches

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

And you don't have to roam very far at the International CES before you run into some, well, interesting products.

«In start - up companies, it's all about «who do I trust» and sometimes nepotism will come in,» Fraedrich says, and family - run businesses have to be especially vigilant against an ethical lapse that could lead at best to employee dissatisfaction and at worst to a discrimination suit.

It has to satiate your muscles, which crave protein, your digestive system, which runs at its best with fiber, and your tissues and bones, which work optimally when they're getting vitamins from food.

We caught up with Hawk at Activision Studios in Santa Monica, Calif., and in between Shred test runs, he told us about what's next, and how social media has made his business bigger, better and, somehow, even cooler.

If someone were searching for leather journals at 1 AM and you know your best conversion rate happens during business hours when you are available to answer phone calls and participate in a «live chat,» the wee hours of the morning would not be the best time to run your advertisements.

If history is our guide, he'll likely kick off his talk with how well Apple has done at getting its customers to run the latest versions of iOS and OS X, how many apps are available in the company's App Store, uptick in Apple TV usage, and perhaps most importantly to developers, how much the iPhone maker has doled out to the software makers as part of their revenue - sharing agreement.

The very best have coaches that have run businesses at a scale similar or larger than yours and if you are public, they have that special experience as well.

As I've argued before, self - awareness is also the meta - skill of the 21st century: Among other benefits, self - aware people are happier with their careers and relationships, are better students, perform better at work and run more profitable companies.

«Mark would speak about «connecting the world through games» and «making users happy,» but the stated values and our desire to create a good user experience was at complete odds with how the company was actually run, which was extremely short - term - focused,» the source says.

Some people will say, «Well, I almost won here, we led a few laps there, I qualified on the pole there...» I'd rather take a kid who wins every single weekend at his local track than someone who always runs 15th in a higher series.

Under AMD CEO Lisa Su, the also - ran PC chip player has focused on developing dramatically better performing chips instead of aiming for incremental improvements at low prices.

«You have to run a company so that everybody has a dream, so not just my dream but their dream and the better you become at that, the more fun it is to come to work and the easier it becomes to run a lot of people,» said Jeff.

Like the Italians who used to declare, «At least Mussolini made the trains run on time,» this CEO's half - hearted attempts at paying someone a compliment were so feeble that it would have been better if she'd said nothing at alAt least Mussolini made the trains run on time,» this CEO's half - hearted attempts at paying someone a compliment were so feeble that it would have been better if she'd said nothing at alat paying someone a compliment were so feeble that it would have been better if she'd said nothing at alat all.

Bryce Harper is already known as one of the best players in baseball, but his home run on Monday night proved just how much strength the Nationals» right fielder has at his disposal.

You have to run a company so that everybody has a dream, so not just my dream but their dream and the better you become at that, the more fun it is to come to work and the easier it becomes to run a lot of people.

«I've got a good track record, and I'm trying to apply those learnings and hopefully make another big run at it.»

If you can offer the lowest price and the best customer service, you have a good shot at running the competition out of business.

When you engage in mission - driven marketing, you have a much better shot at building a great team to help you run your business at a higher level.

If the Rams could land Beckham (who surely would come at a high price), they could have one of the best receiver - running back tandems in the NFL by pairing him with Todd Gurley.

Go to your local Children's Hospital or any local nonprofit group that's well - respected and say you'd like to sponsor a fundraiser - a 10K run, a fashion show, a bingo party at the local church or a «souper supper» to feed the homeless.

«And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.

Asian markets have had a good run this year, shrugging off jitters faced at the end of last year over the potential trade and foreign policy implications the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump would have on the region.

«The thesis that shorting the FAANG stocks would act like a turbo - charged portfolio hedge because of their out - sized run - up in the bull market was a good call,» Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3, told Business Insider.

In fact, having a telecom company like Verizon (VZ) running a publisher like the Huffington Post doesn't just seem unlikely — it seems like a terrible fit for a number of reasons, and there are probably many journalists at both HuffPo and TechCrunch who are fervently hoping that Verizon sees it that way as well.

But while the RNC's new recommendations may not be directly aimed at quashing another Paul's White House run, conservative activists argue that the changes to the primary process would inevitably benefit candidates who are well - funded and have high - name recognition, to the detriment of those who draw their support from the GOP's activist base.

«For Nike, the Roshe run has performed really well over the years,» the team at Flight Club says.

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- The two men running WPP following the shock exit of Martin Sorrell said they would look at restructuring the group and may sell parts of it as better than expected results provided a positive start to life without the company founder.

One theory (alluded to in the Clarkson report) has to do with managing for the long run: a company rooted in a family's history, tradition and reputation may well be less susceptible to the short - termism that is so notoriously a factor at most corporations today.

«You would think that common sense would dictate that we choose someone who is well versed in business and has experience running a company for president,» said Barbara Kellerman, a James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

With stocks in general still trading so high, investors are best off ignoring the short - term hype around buyback announcements and instead taking a closer look at companies on repurchasing binges to see if their share prices have more room to run.

They might well have run into incoming PSC personnel at the airport.

Describing how I plan to run a marathon, and how I bought running shoes and joined a gym and created a training plan, certainly makes me feel good... but it also makes me feel like I'm already part of the way there even though I haven't trained at all.

Another well - known company that offers «self service» tools for running online surveys and collecting consumer feedback is SurveyMonkey, a private company last valued at $ 2 billion that has realigned its strategy dramatically in the 18 months after the death of CEO David Goldberg in May 2015.

«In many instances, the investors involved at the venture level and, of course, the people running the business think they actually have a good company,» notes Tom Stephens, director of Institutional Equity Sales at Tucker Anthony Inc.'s office in Washington, D.C. «But the truth is, in bull markets people believe in bullshit.»

Over the last five years, the organization has worked with some of the most well - known international relief efforts, such as Medic Mobile and Save the Children, helping them to add Bitcoin to their donation streams and running fundraising campaigns aimed at people in the Bitcoin community.

Having been given a run - through of the new e-reader at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle earlier this week, and having had the chance to put it through its paces since, this is good news for book lHaving been given a run - through of the new e-reader at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle earlier this week, and having had the chance to put it through its paces since, this is good news for book lhaving had the chance to put it through its paces since, this is good news for book lovers.

Consequently at the first company you had CFOs who had run businesses or went on to run businesses, at the latter you had the proverbial ink stained wretch capable of turning out the best damned budget package in the world and still chained to a 10 key.

«This is just a bit of a pullback because we've had a good run over the last few days, and there has been some nervousness that the Greece situation may not get resolved soon,» said Bill Schultz, who oversees $ 1.2 billion as chief investment officer at McQueen, Ball & Associates Inc. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

With U.S. stocks trading at a premium to other markets, as well as their historical norm, investors are reasonably wondering: Has the U.S. bull market run its course?

For example, investor Jack Bogle predicted at the outset of the Trump administration that the president's proposed infrastructure spending would be good for the economy in the short term but would be detrimental to the economy, stock market and society over the long run.

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This blogs runs now for more than 1 year, and during that year I have learned a lot about investing e.g. I would never do the investment I did at the beginning as I was just looking for good companies and did not look at their valuation.