Sentences with phrase «in doing that very thing»

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Systems are very important, however, the first thing we would do when taking over a business would be to understand its Human Capital - we need to know what type of people we have in the organization.

It has become not just a company extremely admirable in its growth, but, well, the very model for how to do things when you're scaling a company.

And in order to execute against that, we've got to do many things in parallel and we've got to do them very well.

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Procrastinators of course love these examples of people from history who did great things very late in life.

One of the things that Mohammed bin Salman is very interested in doing is he's interested in setting up tech hubs, essentially, in Saudi Arabia.

«So [those that start with less] tend to be cost - efficient, they tend to be focused and they know that they have to do things with very few resources, and they have to perform in order to survive.»

«It's very dangerous to factor in things you don't know anything about.

«People are very attached to cash because you know where you stand with it, it's anonymous, you don't have to give your data to people and with things like data privacy and cyber-security this has really come to the fore in the last couple of months.»

As for costs, Pizza Hut spokesperson Doug Terfehr says, «While I can't share specifics of the investment, I can tell you this is biggest thing we've done in a very long time.»

In 2005, he became mayor of Solo — the very city whose slums he had grown up in — and did so good a job busting corruption and cleaning things up, that in 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacitIn 2005, he became mayor of Solo — the very city whose slums he had grown up in — and did so good a job busting corruption and cleaning things up, that in 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacitin — and did so good a job busting corruption and cleaning things up, that in 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacitin 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacity.

«If they don't have the product and some early market traction, they're not going to get very far in the funding anyway,» he says, «so the best thing they can do to work on their funding is work on the product.»

Kirby, the MP for Brighton Kemptown since 2010, told BI: «I've been very clear in the house that it's an important thing, we don't intend to lose it and I'm confident that we can retain it.

Getting in front of a customer and providing a quote or proposal means you are very close to the sale, but only if you do the right things from that critical time on.

In a Facebook Live session with Jerry Seinfeld, the Facebook cofounder and CEO tells the comedian that the very first thing he does in the morning, even before he gets out of bed to use the bathroom or puts in his contact lenses, is check his phonIn a Facebook Live session with Jerry Seinfeld, the Facebook cofounder and CEO tells the comedian that the very first thing he does in the morning, even before he gets out of bed to use the bathroom or puts in his contact lenses, is check his phonin the morning, even before he gets out of bed to use the bathroom or puts in his contact lenses, is check his phonin his contact lenses, is check his phone.

Overkill is a real issue and customers are very sensitive to changes in the ways you've always done things.

But — as Recode can now report, because we still do that quaint journalism thing — is a very heady group of less than a dozen, comprising most of the key players in the sector.

«Language Line had been doing the same thing for a very long time,» says Klein, who had held CEO and executive posts at several medium - sized companies before retiring, albeit briefly, in 2010.

The truth is, however, that even if you're starting with little, there are things you can do early in your life and career — in your 20s, mostly — that can make it far more likely you'll be very wealthy by the time you hit 30.

Barring that, the Star paywall will likely act like paywalls before it: as a significant but not transformational shift, the kind of thing that makes a lot of noise, but in the end doesn't change very much at all.

You just have to stick in there, keep getting out, keep meeting other actors, keep meeting people... the very worst thing you can do is stay home and hide away because that's a self - defeating spiral you might never pull out of.

The most important thing the international community can do is eliminate infected crops, and for this to be realistic, scientists need to invent a new diagnostic test that can very quickly detect the disease in plantations and at quarantine borders.

The one thing that is different now from when I started is the emergence of websites who will put you in touch with people who will do a lot of this work for you and for a very low price.

«What really matters is that companies that don't continue to experiment — companies that don't embrace failure — they eventually get in a desperate position, where the only thing they can do is make a «Hail Mary» bet at the very end.»

The line between vigilante and terrorist seems to be very thin indeed, especially in a game where the main character is supposed to be heroic yet at the same time can do some amazingly unheroic things.

Trump attorney John Dowd was jubilant in a statement of his own, saying, «The only thing I have to say is that I'm very happy for the country and Bob Mueller did a great job.»

A few days later, Sherry Cooper, the chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres and the former chief economist at the Bank of Montreal, told Business News Network she was «very worried» about skyrocketing home prices in Vancouver and Toronto because «these things generally don't end well.»

In 1915, he wrote the following happy advice to his 11 - year - old son, Hans Albert, who was attempting to master the piano: «I am very pleased that you find joy with the piano... play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those.

What does seem clear is that Uber probably has a very short amount of time in which to turn things around.

Luckily YPO Member Jennifer Povlitz specializes in helping successful people do those very things.

The result: Stanford tends to attract a very high percentage of prospective students who want to do their own thing and, once in Silicon Valley, the school serves up enough opportunities to push the odds in their favor.

The notion that nice, regular folks can, in the right circumstances, do very bad things is not exactly new.

«If you get caught up in all that needs to be done, things become overwhelming very quickly,» he says.

Entrepreneurial characteristics tend to be very independent, autocratic and wanting things to be done in a particular way.

But self - protection is a very important thing for nations and... But I just don't like to see it... I was not a big fan of going to war and in Iraq or Afghanistan for several reasons, several practical reasons.

It's easier to keep order in an environment where bullying can thrive (and vice versa), because the very things that permit a few to control the rest also permit bullies to do their work.

Canavari: We actually do whitelist sites and like I said, it's a manual process, we take this very seriously and we just want to make sure that our advertising and our content is in adjacent to things that we feel are where our customers are and what's important to them.

And so that's... that is one that... again, it's one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether.

«One of the things I learned back in my days at Netscape was that, in the face of very serious competition, you need to remain focused on your users and customers, and if you do that, chances are you will be able to build a pretty good business,» McCue said.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

«Pop thought organic was the same thing as health food, which in those days didn't necessarily taste very good,» said Nell, a biologist and environmentalist who now runs her own charitable foundation.

I'm very much a believer in doing things by the book, and the previous owner didn't fully embrace the process.

«Things are working pretty well, and I would be worried that if I raised rates significantly with negative interest rates in Europe, I would be very worried about what that would do to the flow of funds.»

«But you can do the thing in front of you that's very low risk, or you can do the thing that's potentially huge.»

«We are in very strange times where things that would normally be the reasonable thing to do can actually be disastrously wrong.

One thing that people don't understand is that they have no common sense and very little context about the world that we live in,» Gil said.

Where can you go in your dreaming, to impact the world, live out your purpose with passion and do things in a very unconvential way that inspires others to do the same?

But instead of being confined by the company's legacy, he has managed to use the position to very much do his own thing — since becoming CEO in 2001, he has transitioned Canada Goose from a line of outwear products worn exclusively by residents» of Canada's icy northern regions into a brand sported by celebrities, featured in magazines (including Kate Upton's infamous Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover) and worn by individuals the world over.

Its relatively clear, bass - boosted sound is solid for what it is, and while its over-ear hooks don't feel totally necessary, the whole thing fits very tightly in the ear without feeling like a nuisance.