Sentences with phrase «minutes talking of»

The man who normally spends several minutes talking of textures and waxing eloquent about colours, made ceramic sound like a product rather than a result of tech alchemy.

This fight over ownership and control pits entrepreneur against investor the minute talk of a company's valuation begins.

Not exact matches

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.

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

It means planning out what you will say during each minute of the talk right down to the first minute, the last minute, and everything in between.

If you are giving a talk at a bread - making club or a nuclear symposium, know that this rule of presentations still works because we tend to tune out from anything after seven minutes.

One of the things I love about live television interviews is the intensity of it — two people are literally staring at each other for five minutes straight talking, sometimes tensely.

But according to a clever and useful recent post on Business Insider there's a quicker and easier for fix for most garden variety cases of burnout: just fire up the internet and spend 20 minutes or so watching a TED talk.

I talked with Renee and asked her to pretend she ran into a business owner at an airport and had five minutes to share some of the top takeaways from the book.

Perhaps company policies could include 45 - minute lunch breaks, since American researchers found that this length of time spent in substantive conversation — not small talk — fosters a sense of closeness between mere acquaintances.

When talking about doing favors, Natalie Zfat set a great example for parameters in her article «How To Master Networking» by saying that if something takes less than five minutes and doesn't jeopardize any of your client relationships, do it.

A host of nutritionists, fitness experts, health coaches and yoga teachers in your area would probably love to be invited to provide a 60 - minute talk or demonstration for your employees.

Take this four - and - a-half minute stretch of the opening, where Landa stops interrogating and instead talks about why he enjoys being called «The Jew Hunter»:

I called and got to talk to her - we had a great 10 minute conversation; I learned a hell of a lot more than I would have from any email; and, we are now scheduled to meet with «her people» and «my people» to discuss how to work together going forward.

Not only will they know to pay attention when you state their name (therefore evading the possibility of having to repeat the question), but Bob won't start talking the same time as Anna and spend the next 2 minutes saying, «No really, you go ahead.

The two - minute «documentary,» created by ad agency 72andSunny (which is owned by MDC) features controversial military vet Ollie North and author P.W. Singer talking about the cornucopia of ways advanced technology could be used to hasten our grisly demise.

But when he had to talk about something like the lack of diversity on campus, he would ramble on for 20 minutes while looking at his feet.

(In the CEO's 60 - minute interview with Fortune, he never talked about improving the quality of the chain's food.)

Talk of rate hikes are in the air Wednesday after minutes from the Bank of England's last meeting showed two out of nine board members voted for a rate hike as early as this month, the first time in three years that policymakers have done so.

Phinney could be seen on the TV screen near the finish, sitting up, satisfied he'd given 100 % and knowing within minutes he'd be the owner of the polka dots and the talk of the Tour.

You might be scheduled for only a 30 - minute talk or panel, but you have an opportunity to squeeze way more of a return on the investment of yourtime onstage.

This year's winners incorporated the advent of the information age and developed models of how markets can also respond to day - to - day and minute - by - minute information, such as the minutiae involved in the current budget battle and debt - ceiling talks in Congress.

Each interview should go something like this: Part one: Introduction Set the candidate at ease with a couple minutes of small talk.

The centerpiece of Musk's roughly 42 - minute talk was the «Big F — ing Rocket,» or BFR.

Written by Philip Auerswald, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy is due out in April, but you can get a taste of Auerswald's most optimistic take on the entrepreneurship and global economy with this video of an animated, 10 - minute talk he gave recently to lawmakers.

But anyway, so we talked a lot about whales and we said, «When you go whale watching and a whale breaches, a whale jumps up above the water, everybody oohs and aahs and takes pictures of it and talks about «Oh, look at the whale,» and then the whale goes back under water for like 45 minutes, and it's the most boring thing in the world.

The companies came close to a merger deal in November before SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son pulled out of the talks at the last minute over valuation disagreements.

I'd rather spend 20 minutes talking to one of my kids about a bike trip or a dating relationship than accomplish something great in the workplace these days.

The first five minutes of a conversation at a networking event usually involve introductions and polite small talk.

Men can talk about sport, politics, sport, the economy, sport, the weather, sport and then in the last five minutes of a meeting try to hammer out a deal.

That plan offers 5 GB of 4G data, unlimited text, and 100 minutes of talk time for $ 30 a month.

A month later, Jackson delivered a 12 - minute mini movie to Jannard that was the talk of NAB 2007, with block - long lines forming to get into Red's tent to see it.

When talking to potential funders, smart small business owners ask for more than they need and, in a pinch, they have a plan of attack for securing last - minute loans.

Providers need ways to measure and bill for power being consumed, just as other utilities track kilowatts of electricity or minutes of telephone talk time.

Developing and protecting the culture is one of the most sacred parts of the SEAL experience, but if you listen to a lot of conversation in the business world, «culture» isn't much more than a soft buzzword that gets put up on a PowerPoint slide once or twice a year ten minutes after you talk about the corporate mission statement or annual strategic initiatives.

But talk to him for a few minutes, and it's apparent he is a roll - up - your - sleeves, down to earth, hard - working kind of guy.

We talked for a few minutes about William's childhood (he dropped out of high school in Amsterdam at 15 to become a DJ), his past work experience (he was a party planner for years), and how he had heard about us (he attended Hustle Con last year).

In the past few days an ad run by the reelection campaign of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 has been popular online — and it's just one shot of one guy, talking for more than four minutes.

The July FOMC minutes didn't mention the risk of another debt - limit standoff, but it's reasonable to assume the Fed might decide to hold off tapering if the markets start getting anxious about new crazy talk from Washington.

Despite its talking - head format, this 52 - minute film is full of revelations about the ways financial reports can be used — or misused.

Use your minutes in a meeting well by preparing talking points and questions that you'd like to explore ahead of time.

You may then find that you like talking about your own experiences and slip out of your introversion for a minute.

The quick course consists of nine videos of around two to three minutes each that delve into topics including how to talk to others who have experienced a loss, how to raise resilient kids, how to take back joy after a setback, and the importance of gratitude, even in the face of hardship.

«Everyone here talks a mile a minute,» he says, inserting a quick, rhythmic «da - da - da» imitation of conversation flow.

He showed us some short video examples of great (and not so great) TED talks and then shared some specific suggestions as to what goes into crafting a memorable presentation — especially an 18 - minute masterpiece — to be delivered before one of the toughest and most accomplished audiences in the world.

Clients spend an hour and a half on the phone with an editor talking about their goals for the book, another 90 minutes creating a table of contents and an outline, another 30 to 60 minutes approving it and six to eight hours being interviewed by the editor.

Speaking of relevancy, I created a set of 13 downloadable templates that will help you execute the process I talk about in this post to create a lead magnet in under 10 minutes.

It may take a few tries, but most people will probably be willing to give you thirty minutes of time to talk about an issue they care about.

Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don't die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don't know what you're talking about, there's no military solution here, they got us.

Sometimes, business owners are not as forthcoming with the sage advice I'm looking for, but the 30 minutes I spent listening to Levi King talk about his path starting and selling multiple successful businesses was not one of those times.