Sentences with phrase «more focus on growth»

There would be less focus on performance and more focus on growth.

Will France's Francois Hollande win the presidential election and demand a treaty that has much more focus on growth and youth employment — perhaps negotiating with the Irish for an amended treaty?

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If I had known in our early growth stages what I know now, I would have focused more on the factors that investors look for during that early stage, rather than try to accomplish everything at once.

Household debt is high, but Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz is more focused on sluggish growth

«The market changed its sentiment in 2014, so when we filed there was really an appetite for growth, and by the time we were ready to go out, it had switched to more focused on profitability and so we decided to change our financial profile this year,» Steckelberg said.

The company tells investors to focus instead on the percentage growth of people who use it daily, which has increased more than 10 percent in each of the last three quarters.

Based on their core values, one is more concerned with growth, while the other focuses on retention.

Corporate venture - capital firms that benefit from high cash flows might be willing to spread out their investments over a few similar companies and take a back seat in terms of driving their growth, while a venture - capital firm is typically motivated to take a more focused and hands - on approach for its portfolio companies.

He argued that Etsy had strayed from its core values in pursuit of growth and that it needed to focus more on the success of its sellers, its customer service, and improvements to its website.

Early on, when the need for that money is still a couple decades away, the fund will adopt a more growth - focused strategy.

A tightening of the company's focus on home services like cleaning and handyman work and a somewhat more aggressive use of paid channels for user acquisition, with advertising now bringing in 35 percent of new business, helped fuel the growth.

Their focus is to further the growth of various applications that are built on blockchain, offering more standards and a process for facilitating compliance to gain wider adoption of this technology.

Money transfer start - up Transferwise is more focused on driving growth than making a profit, Matt Briers said.

Instead, Joly has preferred to keep Best Buy focused on new sources of growth, such as more space for partners such as Amazon and Apple in its stores, an emphasis on growth areas such as smart home products, better product presentation, and a heavy investment in e-commerce to fully integrate the physical with the digital.

Essentially, Cisco wants to focus more on higher - growth product lines involving software and less on its slowing legacy networking hardware business.

A niche equity website with a focus on high - growth consumer product and retail companies, CircleUp has partnered with Procter & Gamble and General Mills to offer more value beyond the funding, giving entrepreneurs access to these brands.

Executives in growth - phase companies need to be less focused on leading by themselves and more focused on empowering others to lead with them.

The first Female Founder event will help hone the pitches of entrepreneurs whose companies are at the seed stage, with two more events focusing on firms at the Series A and growth stages scheduled for February and March, respectively.

This could help Tidal focus more on growth and less on worrying about its bottom line, at least in the short term.

However, it appears many small business owners are instead focusing on slow and steady growth, and driving up productivity to increase margins with the use of technology, fewer workers, and more hours.

Learning how to let go of certain tasks is a key to growth and to allow you to focus on more important matters.

While fundamentally the consolidation of power could cut Turkey's structural growth potential, cyclically the destructive focus on short - term votes to win the referendum should give way to a more pragmatic focus on returning to growth,» the bank said.

«While much attention has focused on the role of China in slowing world trade growth, the trajectory of world trade growth from here depends more on the «old world» markets of the U.S. and Europe than standard trade data would suggest,» said Adam Slater, lead economist at Oxford Economics, in a report out last week.

More than 85 percent of attendees are director - level or higher, and the content of the conference — with a focus on founder - centric issues, growth strategy, execution, and management — reflects that.

But as more and more startups crowd the playing field, having complete focus on your current project is essential if you want to see the fastest growth.

The market will be laser - focused on whether the Fed is justified in its current hawkish stance, given the fact that we're nowhere near growth of 3 percent or more.

Mr. Costolo, a wealthy former entrepreneur who has led Twitter for the last five years, had grown tired of second - guessing by Wall Street, with its focus on the social network's sluggish user growth and its repeated failures to make its products more appealing.

With the acquisition of FDO, the company torpedoed its ROIC, took on an extra $ 11 billion in debt that will limit its ability to invest in new growth opportunities in the future, and made it more difficult to focus and execute on its core business.

We have more resources, more talent and more innovation in the pipeline than any time in our history, and we intend to keep it focused on our biggest growth opportunities.

Because nominal growth equals real growth plus inflation, both nominal wage and NGDP targets implicitly account for inflation while also focusing on indicators more likely to promote the goal of full employment.

As we grow, we are putting more focus on improving our products and our customer support experience to support the rapid growth we've seen.

If so, you may want to look into a more conservative strategy like dividend growth stocks or index funds where the focus is on the long - term and building wealth slowly.

We're focusing mostly on more advanced, high - tech industries, however, because that's where we see the greatest opportunities for growth.

Investors who are more focused on safety than growth often favor U.S. Treasury or other high - quality bonds, while reducing their exposure to stocks.

I've focused more on capital preservation and growth instead.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

Even investor concerns have started to migrate from the strength of global growth to more focus on regional geopolitical risks.

With more than 100 executive sales and marketing placements in our 11 - year history, we were compelled to build a specific team exclusively focused on connecting the very best business leaders with companies looking for intelligent and structured growth.

With the growth of organizations focused on best practice and spread of stewardship codes, more investors are choosing to disclose proxy voting activity even beyond regulatory mandate.

We also promote tax simplification; identify and fight the creep of specialized deductions; conduct, synthesize and curate research on the effect of globalization and technological trends on the US economy; and encourage growth advocates to focus more attention on cutting harmful regulations and increasing program efficiency than attempts to radically pare down social spending.

«He's gotten more angry and frustrated over the years at the 3G effect [named after cost - cutter 3G Capital, principal owner of Kraft Heinz and Burger King] and zero - based budgeting and procurement's effect and clients not focused on growth,» says a consultant close to several marketers, who asked not to be identified.

Right now, it is more important that Motorola focuses on this growth rather than looking at the competition.

Our experience is that young companies that focus on earning revenue from more than one of these categories experience growth challenges.

This keeps clients satisfied with a higher level of service while allowing CMIT technicians more flexibility to focus on valuable onsite projects and owners to worry about business growth.

But right now, investors are focusing on the positives — stimulating more growth.»

Basically, Mr. Flaherty is looking for suggestions on how to «strengthen our economy in the face of global economic threats»; with «cost - neutral or low cost measures», focusing on «more efficient and effective spending» that builds on the «government's belief of respecting taxpayers» dollars» and «encourages private sector growth and leadership».

Finance and investment professionals who preferred more economic growth would often find themselves at odds with Greenspan's keen focus on inflation.

This is true whether you're looking at overall growth or more focused on just the household part of the economy.

The speech concludes by reiterating the importance of keeping a strong focus on durably lifting growth prospects and noting that policies beyond central bank actions need to do more in this regard.

The past two decades of Chinese growth have disproportionately benefited a small elite that has become increasingly entrenched; the next stage must focus on liberal reforms to build social capital more broadly.