Sentences with phrase «hand at doing»

So in case you read this, tell her I have immense respect for her and that, should the day I try my hand at doing so for the first ever comes, I will probably be lucky if the outcome is even just half as good.

I THINK someone tried their hand at doing the «salted caramel» trend, had NO idea what they were doing and completely ruined it.

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I get my flash briefing from Alexa, which gets me a hands - free summary of what's on fire in the real world, and I do a quick check of Slack on my phone, which gets me a quick summary of what's on fire at work.

Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at Intellyx, recently reported that business leaders «can be even more successful with their digital transformations if they do away with hand - coding altogether, adopting Low - Code / No - Code across their organizations instead.»

«Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel,» said Georgiadis in a statement «As a parent, I have seen this first hand and am honored to be joining the Company at this exciting time of renewed focus.»

I take a few calming breaths and focus on the task at hand and not everything that needs to be done.

«On the other hand, if we both think it makes sense to have us do our deep discovery process with that Custom Design Audit so that we hand to you a Custom Development Blueprint, then we'll let each other know that right here at the end of our conversation today.

The agreements — don't gossip, don't take things personally, don't make assumptions, and do your best — help me start from a rational position of trying to understand the issue at hand, without bringing any negative mental baggage that may come along naturally if I weren't aware of them.

Plus, every VC is working with more than a handful of startups at any given time, so we simply don't have the bandwidth to hold a founder's hand on a day - to - day basis.

If the back - up you are looking for doesn't need to be physically close at hand, you have a whole lot more options to choose from.

He cringes, on the other hand, at vague descriptors like «boutique» and «outsource,» which Borzou Azabdaftari initially uses to explain what his company does.

If you speak English well and don't mind chatting with strangers, you have all the qualifications you need to try your hand at online language teaching — but you can do even better if you're multi-lingual.

On the other hand, critics have blamed the Aussie rules for contributing to a boom in unsightly condo towers aimed at foreign investors while doing little to bring sky - high house prices in cities like Sydney and Melbourne back down to Earth.

For people constantly in the public eye, the royals are unsurprisingly great at shaking the right hands, smiling at the right moments, and generally keeping it all together to make sure they get things done.

Then, maybe next Independence Day, when they're at their hometown fireworks display, some good soul might come over to hand them a cold beer — which is what big - hearted Americans do on the Fourth of July.

In general, founders don't seem to worry about failure at the hands of their competition — only 5 percent cited this as a concern.

Now that we know where our corks come from, we can get back to the question of what the heck are we supposed to do with it when someone hands us one at dinner?

Sure, I didn't finish that book proposal I ambitiously thought I would, but I did get pretty good at typing with one hand.

Contingent motivators (such as «if you do this, then that») narrow thinking and block creativity unless the tasks at hand are simple and rote, Daniel Pink said in a TED Talk «The Puzzle of Motivation.»

By contrast, stocks in the S&P 500 Apparel Retail Index are changing hands at the fastest clip since 2012 — an average of 700,000 times more a week than they did last year.

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«People are at their best when they're up against a deadline... Having too much time on your hands or doing things at a leisurely pace can be a mistake.

He doesn't check his phone, e-mail or Twitter feed first; he stays focused on the task at hand.

«So, on the one hand, we know from research that people are much better at work when they feel empowered, which consists of having meaning on the job, a sense of autonomy, a sense of confidence, and also an impact on what you do and the people you're trying to help.

A Walkman with a recording feature did eventually hit the market in 1982, but the decline of the Walkman personal stereo was close at hand — Sony's compact disc player, the Discman, was introduced in 1984.

It does show that for Pao, as for many of the women in Snyder's study, simply being excellent at the job at hand isn't going to get you very far.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

It's also not good business when you constantly try to gain the upper hand at all costs because, over time, no one will want to do business with you again.

That's the process: Let's think about what we can do today, the task at hand.

Students with a growth mindset, on the other hand, didn't care if their mistakes were revealed to their peers; they saw this as inevitable and nothing to be ashamed of, because their goal was to «learn at all times and at all costs.»

Controllers are great, but at some point we will get to where I can just put a headset on and have my hands do things.

Concentrating on improving your own performance instead of beating someone else's will help you focus more on the task at hand and ultimately motivate you to continue doing better.

I've found that entrepreneurs, unlike smart people, get focused on working with whatever they have at hand and doing one important thing at a time.

At one point during the interview, Musk did not have his hands on the wheel and the car beeped at him to retake the wheeAt one point during the interview, Musk did not have his hands on the wheel and the car beeped at him to retake the wheeat him to retake the wheel.

Luckily, this did not get out of hand or cost me relationships, opportunities or my job because, of course, if I wanted to succeed at Waze, I had to shape up real quick.

If you're struggling to make a decision about what you should and should not be doing, breakdown the steps you need to take and weigh the pros and cons of focusing on the specific task at hand.

«On the one hand, you may want to dress up, but I do think that even at the holiday party you want to be somewhat mindful and ask yourself, «Would I be comfortable showing up in this outfit if I was going to meet my best prospective client,»» says Fischer.

If that sounds like you and you don't have a detail - driven assistant at hand, creating a simple, to - do list can help you keep your focus.

They want to look at things and say «Listen, maybe there's a better way to do it» and really get their hands dirty,» she says.

Even if you don't have kids, getting older and having the desire for a little more convenience go hand in hand, which means that eventually at least some millennials are going to see the appeal of living in the suburbs.

Indeed, sometimes it helps to sit down and focus on the task at hand rather than doing too many things at once.

While certain factors are out of our hands, such as an economic downturn, we do have the opportunity to make sure that we're at least investing in the right startup.

When you do, it allows you to hyper focus on the tasks at hand and bring to bear all of your talents and skills to do amazing work.

Yahoo is expected to leave Tumblr safely in the hands of founder David Karp, the new poster boy for dropping out of high school at 15 and still managing to do all right.

Still, it does have a few things going for it: The «fast delete» button lets you quickly scrap whole words at a time; there's a one - handed mode that lets you crunch the keys over to one side of the screen; and, when your phone is in landscape mode, it splits apart like an ergonomic keyboard, making it feel a little more natural for your thumbs.

If your jacket can't help you properly perform the tasks at hand, it doesn't serve you well even if it looks great.

It pairs young workers who are more adept at using technology with more experienced hands who know how to do things the old - fashioned way.

So that's what they did: handing out fliers at the bus station that offered individual lessons for $ 5 or $ 10 a pop.

When you set out to do something, and you don't fully believe in your ability to do it, you gravitate toward distraction and not the task at hand.

Agrawal: I think it does need to relate to their business at hand, because if it doesn't, the lines could become a little bit blurred.