Sentences with phrase «has of talking»

I am sure if I had of talked to the wrong people about this, I would have heard how I was «making» him too dependent, but I chose my confidants carefully and went forward with what felt right to me.

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The most effective salespeople, for instance, have been shown to only talk about 30 percent of the time — the rest is spent listening.

«It does feel like all of my videos have been an expression of things I want to relay to my sister, or things I wish I could talk to my sister about.

«We hope that when we're talking to this disembodied assistant that we have the same amount of privacy as we would if we were hiring our own personal assistant,» says Christopher Parsons, research associate at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.

Without experiencing it, Slack admittedly sounds like garden - variety instant messaging; the difficulty of quickly summarizing what it's good at means that converts often have a wooly, evangelical way of talking about it.

So it helps when it is the decision makers that we are talking to, and we don't have to go through three or four layers of people to get a decision made.

Woodside Petroleum has deferred a final decision on expansion of its Pluto gas project, but the company's chief executive Don Voelte has still talked up its development record, saying it was five years ahead of industry rival Chevron.

«We're talking about highly centralized platforms who, in theory, have the most to lose from the advent of decentralized technologies and platforms,» Pakman said.

I think your assertions around the key variables that impact workforce productivity are spot on.One of the other variables I would like to contribute is in relation to the employees themselves, as you also talk about employee engagement when referring to staff morale.

«Foxconn has a history of talking big and not necessarily delivering on their commitments,» Alliance president Scott Paul said.

Verizon has reportedly been in talks to acquire startup carrier Mobilicity, and there are reports it has made an initial $ 700 - million offer for Wind Mobile, another of Canada's small telecoms.

If she were to write the Democrats» autopsy for 2016 - and she'll have a hand in it as one of the newly elected co-chairs of the House Democrats» policy and messaging arm - she says her message would be to «not only talk about jobs and the economy, but do something about it.»

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has bought his way in to talks with China's President Xi Jinping, South Korea's President Moon Jae - in, and US President Donald Trump with a commitment to denuclearize his country — but doing so could open up the world to the tremendous risk of loose nukes and loose nuclear scientists.

Because obviously the more success people have on it, the more they're going out and meeting new people as a result of using Hinge, the more they talk about it, and the more it spreads.

Talking with SCORE mentors who've been in your business, scouring the state department of transportation website, and talking with officials at the city / town and state level should provide you with everything you need tTalking with SCORE mentors who've been in your business, scouring the state department of transportation website, and talking with officials at the city / town and state level should provide you with everything you need ttalking with officials at the city / town and state level should provide you with everything you need to know.

I have enjoyed talking to some of the Valley entrepreneurs about this, and I am impressed [at] how early they are thinking about giving back — much earlier than I did.

Facebook (FB), of course, also makes a point of talking about the «interest graph» that it has developed around all of its billion or so users.

Choice 1: Be a part of the «yard society,» playing cards all day, shucking and jiving with the fellas, talking about past and future crimes I had committed or planned to commit... or

«An applicant then moves step - by - step through our interview process, talking with another person they'd work with at every stage of interviewing.»

«A lot of the people I talk to will say, «I had a busy day but I don't know what I got done.»

Plus, partners like Sonos and Ecobee have released their own products with Alexa built in, so you can talk to (and shop from) Amazon from an ever - increasing number of places.

«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

Terrapower has a design (on paper) that addresses all of these issues so now we are talking to countries about building it.

In the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did it.

Chris Anderson, the founder of the conference, has explained that 18 minutes is about the right length for the talks, and I tend to agree.

With a sturdy, adjustable - height tabletop and a range of 0.6 to 6.5 kilometres per hour, I would soon be typing and talking without worrying about the «sitting disease» epidemic that's killing North Americans.

After you've gone through all of your stories from your past, and after you've talked about everything that you've dealt with, now you have to go live life and accumulate more things to talk about.

«There has always been talk of how to carve out «good» pass - through income from «bad» pass - through income.

«I believe — and I think the president believes — that we must be proactive, the years of talking about these problems has not worked, and that we must use all instruments we have to make it expensive to engage in non-economic behaviour, and to convince our trading partners to treat our workers, farmers, and ranchers fairly.

«As a matter of fact, for those of you who are still using email, one of the things that I've done in my business is I've said, «If you talk about somebody in the company on email to me, then copy them on it,»» she says.

I've also given hundreds of talks, and seven minutes is about right.

Continue on to share your key observations about the prospect's industry today, and you'll have your prospect's full attention for the rest of the talk.

And Savage says he and other officials within Alberta Environment have been asked to prepare more research in anticipation of talks to consider changes to the province's climate strategy.

After the talk of foreign assignments, pension plans and leadership roles had died off, I mentioned that I was looking to start my own company.

But the next time rumors emerge that Apple is talking with one of the remaining media giants be it Walt Disney (dis) or CBS (cbs) or something else, investors had better take notice.

«We've had so much trouble with all the talk about the dangers of personal contact.

You have plenty of options to choose from, including talks, discussions, fireside chats, and workshops.

«One of the last times I spoke with the president, he said Melania had seen me on «Fox & Friends,» and she told him there was this really handsome guy on television talking about him,» he said.

Every one of Marsh & McLennan's 60,000 employees has heard Glaser talk about this many times.

Once at a table, the women wait until their sons or husbands — all of whom have been imprisoned for more than a decade and have over a decade to go — come out to spend a morning in the gloomy room to talk and eat food from the vending machines.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Team Penske, which made it the perfect time to talk to Roger about business, leadership, and what he believes has contributed the most to his long - term success: people.

It's great to be customer - centric, and frankly, there have been a number of companies that have been chomping at the bit to talk about how customer - centric they are.

On this episode, Entrepreneur Network partner Business Rockstars spotlights designer Shaun Neff, who talks about the power of branding, what he has learned from starting his own business and the most rewarding aspects of becoming an entrepreneur.

«We have been talking with a number of large - scale battery providers about potential storage solutions, including in South Australia.

However, I realized that all of the startup meetups fall into one of three categories: 1 - So early in the morning that no one is awake enough to have a stimulating conversation 2 - At a dark bar with a loud DJ making it impossible to actually talk 3 - Being given junk to eat and drink at someone's office.

John Babcook, Kairos» founder — now senior vice-president of discovery research at Zymeworks — says he and Tehrani had been talking for years about some sort of partnership.

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

Even though we're working with early - stage founders, there's a clear indication very early on of what they've been able to build, not what they're able to talk about.

Speaking as part of a panel discussion on the future of VR in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Pao talked about how much work HTC and the other high - end VR purveyors have ahead of them in selling consumers on the technology.

The underlying software has to sift through and make sense of a lot of information — your relationship to your contacts, what their interests are, what you've talked about in the past and what's happening in the world — so it can recommend what to talk about and when.