Sentences with phrase «honed many»

Mr. Butterman's wardrobe and personal life were as finely honed as his laser - like focus at work.

Take natural language processing, for example — hiring freelancers allows businesses access to sharply - honed skills that simply aren't available elsewhere.»

The Puget Sound Business Journal reviewed the flights of Jeff Bezos» private jet and found the craft was in Boston just before the HQ2 search was announced and in Washington, D.C. the day the search was honed to 20 finalists.

Here are a few best practices that I've honed over my years of entrepreneurship:

And in order to become a network star, Rose adds, entrepreneurs need not have a finely - honed onscreen presence.

I will say this: Zuckerberg and his team have honed their crisis - management skills well.

The military honed my focus, so that no matter where I am or what surrounds me, I know I can accomplish the task at hand.

AdWords campaigns can then be honed accordingly, with a geographic bent.

It was at Next that Jobs honed his single greatest strength as an entrepreneur: the sense of elegant design that pervaded everything his company did.

In the meantime, Target has been rolling out a sophisticated branding operation here honed by 50 years of slow, steady and massively successful expansion in the U.S.. From a family - owned Minneapolis department store, Target has grown into a discount retailing force rivalled (and still consistently dominated) only by Walmart, which posted US$ 264 billion in U.S. sales last year.

Selling is an acquired skill best honed with experience.

While even QVC execs marvel at the company's rapid ascent, Lima attributes her success to carefully - honed products and 20 - hour workdays — not to mention a healthy dash of superstition.

Taking it one step further, you could even say that this clip goes a long way to restoring what Sony and the Jackson estate surely believe ought to be Jackson's dominant brand attribute: his overall artistry, honed through hard work.

That's why we're sharing the best sales tactics from over a dozen inside sales professionals, which have been honed over countless years of experience.

They honed in on the value they bring to their customers to convey in the ad.

This sometimes gets me labeled as a «serial entrepreneur» which suggests that I spit out companies every few months by a finely - honed formula.

Gerstner cut costs, honed in on business services and restored the company to profitability.

To find out which states pay the lowest taxes, financial website GOBankingRates conducted a survey that honed in on four categories: income, property, sales and gas taxes.

However, the savviest of millionaires survived, safe with their nest eggs and already honed frugal habits.

While Harvard wasn't the right fit, it led him to Columbia where he honed his skills in investing.

Brothers Eric and Andrew Dayton «want their region to be recognized for its innovative, sturdy character, honed by long, cold winters.»

But after his Wednesday interview with Salesforce founder, Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff, the «Mad Money» host honed in on Salesforce's secret: building trust.

Fortunately, resilience is a skill that can be cultivated, practiced, and honed.

I've honed these lessons from the past and present into a simple acronym you can follow, called C.O.R.E. (see below).

Those who apply well - honed self - awareness and self - management skills tolerate change much more successfully than others.

Create a new compelling belief by believing your talents and skills can be honed by applying oneself.

So it's really important to be successful south of the border, and you really have to have that honed before you go out internationally.

Sara honed her skills while serving as a senior aide and White House Political Director for President George W. Bush.

Focus is as much a personality trait as it is a skill, but I list it as a skill because it can be initiated, developed and honed over time.

With New York Fashion Week underway, freshmen designers discuss how they've honed their business - savvy and their eye for design.

Not surprisingly, Packer honed his reporting in on Florida.

This is your chance to tell them about courses taken, credentials earned and personal skills honed since they first employed you.

Perfection can be honed over a period of time.»

With skills honed for conflict resolution (or outright avoidance), high empathy, a more realistic view of what it takes to succeed, and even a better grasp of how to listen and work in a team, middle children are a better match because they already «get» the flat structure of families.

Fueled by deep - pocketed mainland venture capitalists and success at home, the 40 - year - old and his peers are exporting a formula honed in China of pursuing rapid expansion over profitability.

That list is then honed, eliminating long - shot candidates, and goes through a double - elimination vote among physicians and venture capitalists.

Before co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer honed the concept of ride hailing at Lyft, which has 1,000 employees, operates in 200 cities, and has raised more than $ 2 billion in venture capital, they built its predecessor, a ridesharing upstart called Zimride.

Open A European Company.com founder Heather Landau has honed her skills in service advisory from the pragmatic to the practical.

I did that for a while, and it was only after I had done that for a little bit and felt like I'd honed my skills and I understood the kitchen, the professional kitchen, that I felt like I could then leave it to [go back and] pursue the writing part because I now had the knowledge and the expertise to do that.»

Today, Corcoran is happily married to her second husband, Bill Higgins, and has two children, Tom, a 22 - year - old graduate of Columbia University, whom Corcoran had after seven years of in vitro attempts; and Katie, 11, whom she adopted after an exhaustive search, using the skills she honed writing ad copy for dream homes.

It should be noted that Jackman honed his political philanthropy as the federal fundraiser for the Progressive Conservatives under Brian Mulroney.

Content must be laser focused on your audience's needs and honed to drive specific profit - generating actions.

«I do,» he replied, proceeding to read off advice honed in 10 years of counseling: Wrap yourself in a «bubble of protection,» he suggested.

Top performers have well - honed coping strategies that they employ under stressful circumstances.

Now, with its trust - and - safety team in place, its message about pseudonymity honed, and the election behind it — in which it got a minuscule fraction of the criticism Facebook did — Reddit is stepping up its competitive talk.

It feels as though you've been waiting your whole life for this: You've prepared your slide deck, rehearsed your pitch, and honed your talking points.

The business development expertise he honed during that time, not to mention his voluminous contact list, helped him get JQI off the ground quickly.

It will take some time to perfect the message, but when it's honed in just right, it will provide you with a much more effective marketing pitch.

It was during her work placements where Gershtein honed her coding skills and discovered how she could incorporate animation into programming.

Enter Cups, a startup that has honed in on this discovery aspect and built a business model around it.