Sentences with phrase «ideas were coming not»

It also raised concern that NCI's ideas were coming not from its scientific public advisers but from a group that met behind closed doors.

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At first, I didn't think a website was necessary, but as I came up with more ideas, I grew passionate about the business I created.

And with good reason; millions of entrepreneurs and businesspeople have embraced the idea that carving out a slice of an existing market can certainly be effective, but finding new opportunities — finding blue oceans — is even better, since those gains don't have to come at the expense of other businesses or other people.

Strange Success is about people who come up with crazy ideas to solve a problems you may not even realize exist.

Recognize that not all duties can be outsourced, and that choosing who to recruit or what to automate can be optimized as new technology and ideas come along.

People who aren't afraid to be different naturally stretch boundaries and challenge the status quo, and they often come up with the best ideas.

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.

VC Mahesh Vellanki recently took to his blog to offer would - be entrepreneurs the best business ideas he's come up with but won't personally be pursuing (he's got a pretty good gig already, after all).

But what matters most, says Roberts, who came to Venrock in 1997, just after earning a Ph.D. in chemistry and chemical - biology from Harvard, isn't that «brilliant idea» that launched the company — but rather the brilliant person who's leading it.

That comes with enormous responsibility — an idea that isn't lost on Archer.

That's not the way to find your passion in life, come up with breakthrough ideas, or experience life - changing events.

The difference between an A team and a B team doesn't come down to the quality of the idea it's pitching; it's whether the team can carry that idea to success.

Your best business ideas will come when you're not working.

Be courageous, challenge people to come up with the next idea - incremental or great, it doesn't matter.

If we can give customers the feeling of giving back, we can extend into Toms Hotels or Toms Banking or other ideas we haven't come up with yet, because the One for One model can be relevant to many things consumers do.

AW: I'm not sure exactly when I came up with the idea, but it started off with me saying, «OK, I want a story that takes place in the city on the moon.»

What's more, customers who spend a lot of time coming up with innovations are going to be mad if you reward their idea but don't implement it.

When the time comes to show up in your boss's office and say, «I'm interested in a promotion,» it's important that you have something specific in mind — if not a specific job title, then at least a clear idea of what the responsibilities might include and how this ties in to your career goals.

I'd come up with something vague and hopeful and self - improving, but I wasn't sure I necessarily bought the idea.

«You're coming up with ideas in your sleep and waking up with them,» Kramer says, «but sometimes you have to stand back and not think about it.

I couldn't understand, there's no way somebody hadn't come up with this idea,» said Och.

However, it seems like plenty of locations fall into that category, because people are — unsurprisingly — loving the idea and wondering why someone didn't come up with it sooner.

But it wasn't until he read a book by billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban that he came across the idea of balancing selling and sharpening.

Do not assume that «if you build it, they will come,» as the idea of co-working is new to many people, and a few will need to be sold on the benefits.

«Whether we agree with them or not is secondary to the objective, which is to send students into the world with the understanding that they're not going to find every idea that comes at them palatable or comfortable.»

Looking into a crystal ball isn't exactly a scientific thing to do, but if you ask the right kinds of smart people you can get a pretty good idea what's likely to come down the pike.

If I was a CEO of some big company, I would look into the future and see some pretty heavy waves coming at me, and start taking very seriously the idea that the future doesn't compute, that this $ 1 trillion sloshing around the global economy each day has turned it into a casino that needs to be dismantled.

In the not - so - distant past, if a person came up with a concept for a new product and wanted to try to monetize their idea, the only options available were to either start a company to produce and sell the product or to secure intellectual property rights and attempt to license the idea to an already - established company.

But he was already making a lot of money with his fund — you can get an idea of that from the size of his Glide bids — so money wasn't a reason for him to come.»

«We didn't want to come up... as something that said, «Oh, my agency is coming in to give me agency ideas.»»

The idea for her company, came because her needs didn't fit what was mainstream:

«The real success factor of my life is not how I manage planned situations that come along but how I've adapted my plans, ideas or certainties in new scenarios.

An employee who isn't afraid to stand out or stretch boundaries often comes up with the best ideas — and helps you think in different ways, too.

I'm no stylist and I'm not creative enough to come up with all these great ideas.

What you really need to do is to come to peace with the idea that the timeline is not for you anymore.

Remember the lesson of Spencer Silver, a 3M employee whose adhesive development wasn't seen as useful until Arthur Fry came up with the idea for the Post-It Note.

Repetitive uninspiring offerings aren't just less tasty, they're also less likely to spark the kind of informal talk that will bond your team and help them come up with innovative ideas about not just what to order but also how to improve you business.

If you want to come up with an original and innovative business idea, don't copy what someone else is already doing.

«He'll come in and say, «I had this great idea at three in the morning» — and it's not just an idea, it's a whole plan in excruciating detail.»

Branson is a huge proponent of writing down your ideas when they come to you so you don't forget.

Another added benefit of not being so busy and over-scheduled: You'll actually have time to implement the creative ideas that you come up with.

Griffiths committed to developing that idea over the next two years, but it wasn't until she immersed herself in online chat forums with potential customers that her business idea really came together.

When that idea comes up in the private sector, it's likely that someone is trying to justify some profitable behaviour that is unethical but not - yet illegal.

When you are coaching, don't forget you are coaching a human being, and they come to the table with insecurities, ideas, feelings and history.

The good news is that clever startups are coming to market with big new ideas intended not only to change the way small businesses handle money, but in some cases to also cut out big, bad, TARP - grabbing traditional banks altogether.

«Importantly, these ideas do not necessarily come from the network members who are culturally different from you.»

Contrary to their portrayal in pop culture, entrepreneurs aren't purely «idea people,» dreaming up revolutionary new concepts and introspectively coming to profound conclusions about their industry — though they are that, at times.

You might be finding it difficult to come up with the right idea at given point of time, but there might be an idea sitting in the heads of a person who isn't a marketer, but still has immense knowledge about the business, its target audience and the operational niche.

Coming up with great content ideas is not easy, but it's not impossible either.

My best ideas come when I'm not in the office, so I often spend the day wandering around Vancouver.