Sentences with phrase «knew people over»

We had lawyers who knew people over there, and we heard that they were thinking about a move.

It's getting to know people over a pint in the Jesus Arms beer tent and realising that no one is talking about Jeremy Corbyn anymore.

Travelling Europe from June to August and am keen to know some people over there.

The site emphasizes getting to know people over browsing quickly through profile pics.

You can also get to know the person over the phone or online without having to first meet face to face.

It's best to get to know the person over time and build trust slowly; giving people too much personal information can be dangerous in today's digital world, so avoid sharing details like your address, date of birth and workplace.

Hugh — Do you know the people over at Crushpad?

Not exact matches

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.

I know some people have anxiety over Snapchat.

«Young people with this condition have a huge advantage over me — now they know [about it].

Poloz has a free hand, but he's human; if you were facing a decision that could go either way, and you knew the person who is ultimately your boss favours one direction over the other, what would you do?

If your time and energy is being sapped by saying «yes» to requests — that includes engaging with people over social media, which is a modern form of «people pleasing» — then you need to do a hard pivot and literally rehearse saying «no.»

Who knew that one trip could put you that far over one person's allotment to keep within what we want our leaders to hold our nations to?

By merely including those items as rewards in game play, customers walked away saying «I didn't know they also made Sabra» and over 90 % of the people who engaged tweeted photos of themselves playing the game with the brand extension.

In over his head but unwilling to tap out and risk people knowing he was floundering, he says he made a series of «dumb moves» at Moz that involved everything from a failed hiring incentive to a bungled software release.

By letting employees know how he and the leadership team plan on growing over the next year, «people feel bought into the strategy around your organizational design and development.»

Blog Farnam Street quotes Munger as saying: «In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject - matter area) who didn't read all the time — none.

People queuing up for Mega Millions tickets aren't the only ones salivating over the record $ 540 million jackpot that could be won Friday — some state governments struggling through lean times know a hometown winner would bring a tax bonanza.

That claim and myriad variations are all over the internet, from business articles written by people who should know better to puffery put out by franchise brokers and consultants.

One major point of contention is the fact that SoundCloud hired a number of people into roles over the last few months knowing full well that they were going to have to make large redundancies, according to TechCrunch.

There's no doubt Twitter is a modern - day, real - time water cooler around which people from all over the world can gather to chat.

If you know one of those people, tide them over with labeled tees and matchsticks.

Now that she follows an intermittent fasting eating regimen, she almost never eats until at least 11 a.m. And she suffers no ill effects: she's one of the smartest, most productive people I know, she's trim and fit and... well, let's just say I married way over my head.

That's when I took what I knew from becoming a world - class athlete and started over — my quest to learn about business, marketing and adding value to influential people (even when I thought I had no value to give) began.

Everybody knows his or her title and job description, but if somebody calls in sick, the circus continues, so you take over that person's job.

«From the minute we opened on day one,» Jerry says, «we bent over backwards to win people over, know people personally and treat them like family and friends.»

Meanwhile, an entire generation of people under 30 have moved over to Instagram and tend to avoid Twitter, which is widely known as a bastion of trolls.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

Being just over an hour from Napa, we knew a lot of very successful people in the business.

As I recently wrote in «The IRS Wants to Know If Your Freelancer Should Be Getting a W2,» before working with a freelancer you want to make sure to look at a number of factors including: one) whether the person you hire is truly a freelancer, two) whether you have financial control over the person doing work, three) the extent of control you have over the freelancer's day and four) how the person's work gets performed.

The company has detected cancer in 5 percent of people over the age of 50 who didn't know they had it.

If there's a deadline, and everyone knows that three weeks from now at 4 p.m., this negotiation is over, that incentivizes people.

Once a disaster is over — no matter what its impact — people need to return to a sense of normalcy.

Sinek, best known for his book, Start With Why, said that current consumer - minded business models that prioritize the needs of customers over people within the organization are outdated, having first been adapted in the 80s and 90s.

However, savvy people have pattern recognition that lets them know when things are over and under valued — thus letting themselves make a well timed move (which allows them to take above average shots).

Dig Deeper: Joel Spolsky's A Little Less Conversation How to Run an Effective Meeting: Time Management No matter how detailed of an agenda you e-mail to your entire team, people will go over the time limits.

«I had reactions that ranged all over the map from people who said, «You know, I'm glad you dared to say that,» to people who asked me later, «Are you serious?»»

«People who go to the right schools at the right time, get to know the right people and get the right interview, that's their path, and they glide over it,» says People who go to the right schools at the right time, get to know the right people and get the right interview, that's their path, and they glide over it,» says people and get the right interview, that's their path, and they glide over it,» says Baker.

While Reese says he doesn't know the exact reason, people have labored over the intricacies of language for millennia and usually consider themselves experts in their native tongue.

On the other hand, Apple has tens of millions of proprietary devices in people's hands, and they've shown over time that they know how to do these types of complex consumer offerings in very elegant and easy - to - use ways.»

Many people naturally cross their arms or hunch over a bit just because they don't know what to do with their hands.

And for some reason, I don't know why or how, I wanted to climb over that fence and achieve something beyond what people were saying was possible.

I've read over 550 personal development books and knew I was a natural adviser to the people in my life - especially when it came to connecting to your purpose, becoming more confident, negotiating, and networking.

Whatever qualities you're looking for as you build your team — entrepreneurial spirit, a solution - driven attitude, passion over polish — you'll recognize those qualities in people you know well and have worked with before.

«And the consequence of that is that the director [of the film], the person responsible, was not coming into the room in a defensive posture knowing that this group could screw him over,» Catmull said.

It hired like crazy, bloating its payroll to over 1,600 people, and chaos ensued, with no one knowing what other workers were doing.

Brainy, bashful people did make themselves known over time, however.

Productive people are always reviewing what's coming up over the next few weeks, because they know it's not a sprint, it's a marathon.

People with grit believe in themselves no matter what and they stay the course until they win people over to their way of thiPeople with grit believe in themselves no matter what and they stay the course until they win people over to their way of thipeople over to their way of thinking.

Many people agonize over the idea of having to say «no.»