But when there's a bowl full of white wine sauce, you can't let any of it go to waste.
«There would be all sorts of conversations in the dressing room, with a few mardy bums going, «The gaffer has gone mad here, he can't let both of them go».
I still love my hats and haven't let any of them go so I'll see how they do this year.
Not exact matches
The best piece
of management advice I received was from someone who
let go of his entire staff because they were good but
not great.
In this beautiful citation, wrongly attributed to Buddha, it is said: «In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you
let go of things
not meant for you.»
Most small - business owners recognize that they can't grow without delegating but still have a tremendous amount
of difficulty
letting go of control.
Siemens constantly innovates and I have to be confident the candidate will contribute to this goal to create something tomorrow that we didn't believe was possible today... Authentic candidates will
let go of the responses they think we want to hear and give the responses that demonstrate who they are.»
What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location
of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved
of his duties as head
of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is
going to lead China for the next 10 years,
let alone what their policy leanings may be.
Let go of what you can
not control by prioritizing the aspects
of your business you can push, promote and monetize.
Letting go of a grudge
not only makes you feel better now but can also improve your health.
One founder really didn't want my feedback; she was too in love with her idea and couldn't
let go of it, even though I told her it was
not going to happen.
Now
let me give you three things that say that's
not true: If you ate a lot
of vegetables and fruit, you probably aren't
going to gain weight; No. 2, if you work out like crazy, you're probably
not going to gain weight; and No. 3, people who I've learned to really hate, people who have very fortunate, fast metabolism, aren't
going to gain weight.
Yet I couldn't
let go of the steering wheel.
While,
of course, to some extent this has to be true, especially in life - threatening situations - your employee can lead an evacuation down a fire escape but can't necessarily design standards for what is an acceptable or unacceptable level
of smoke inhalation - it's important to simultaneously push against it, to
let your employees know what they need to get done but
not necessarily how they should
go about designing their day and carrying out their duties.
But entrepreneurs don't
let a little thing like
going against the odds get in the way
of following their dreams.
For a smaller staff, the act
of properly
letting go of an employee isn't limited to a single, private conversation with the person leaving, but must also include a discussion with the remaining team members.
«
Letting go of the craving for tidiness isn't only useful in a digital context, though: it applies to physical possessions, too,» he writes.
Companies often begin by pouncing on these sorts
of transgressions «and that immediately creates a hostile atmosphere because people don't want to
let go of that.
«
Let's say there is some sort
of harassment issue or sexual misconduct; it doesn't matter if they were great friends in the beginning, at the end it's
going to be a nightmare.»
Last week, at an on - stage event in Lisbon, Ohanian shrugged off a comparison
of Reddit's upvoting mechanism to Twitter's hearts, which
let a user denote a tweet is a «favorite,» saying: «We're
not going to take too many lessons from Twitter,» he dismissed.
When David Geffen, an assistant manager at a direct - marketing firm north
of Toronto, decided he wanted to date a subordinate, he wasn't
going to
let his company's HR policies stop him.
The thought in the back
of my mind is always «Please don't
let this elephant decide to
go mad and stampede the crowd.»
Let's assume this isn't the last round
of funding the company is
going to need, which is almost always the case.
«
Let's hope that this one is a unique sort
of set
of circumstances that revolve around the politics and
not some sort
of policy departure that is
going to be ushered in by the Trump administration,» he said.
Learning to
let go of a grudge will
not only make you feel better now but can also improve your health.
Do you have what it takes to
let go of people who aren't working out?
New Year's resolutions simply don't work until you
let go of the old ways
of thinking that prevent you from bringing in the new.
«My number one tip is to
let go of the all - or - nothing mentality and accept that your journey will
not be perfect.
In fact she's afraid
not to: «Never love something so much that you can't
let go of it,» she said at Fortune «s Most Powerful Woman Summit last year.
That being said,
letting go of perfection isn't about doing everything half - heartedly and hoping it works anyway.
Let's be real: the Cuban market isn't
going to blossom overnight,
not with 90 percent
of their economy controlled by the state, and foreign investment laws that only offer a glimmer
of openness.
And then we didn't make a lot
of money with air beds, so we thought well, we're Air Bed and Breakfast,
let's
go into the breakfast business.
Take a look at Tom Foster's fascinating profile
of a founder who is most definitely
not cool with another one
of those entrepreneurial paradoxes — namely, to grow your company, you sometimes have to
let go.
Masih might have been ready to start over, but the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District
of West Virginia hadn't quite
let go of his case.
I knew that most
of the people we
let go that day would
not get another job for a long time.
With the gentle bedside manner
of a great producer he said to me, «
Let us try it and if it doesn't work we won't use it and we'll
go with your solo version.»
The salient takeaway for readers in business settings is to stay mindful
of the way Martin persuaded McCartney to leave his comfort zone, like a parent urging a child to try a new food: «
Let us try it and if it doesn't work we won't use it and we'll
go with your solo version.»
We don't like
letting go because that act
of letting go is considered a sign
of poor character.
Let's all thank BuzzSumo and Moz for this study, as it
goes a long way in showing what it takes to
not only create killer content, but to increasing the number
of social shares and referring domain links!
Letting go of control in some areas frees you to focus on other items that can't, and shouldn't, be delegated.
Her pep talks are filled with counterintuitive advice such as, «slow down time» and «gain your power by
letting go,» but these directives don't seem idealistic when coming from Harder, founder
of the Bliss Project; they seem downright fun.
Goldberg uses an analogy from the world
of retail to illustrate the point: «
Going into Home Depot doesn't
let you build a house all by yourself if you haven't done it before.»
And a fork to eat them with after,
of course — can't
let that
go to waste.
But as she worked her way through the self - assessment and began tweaking how she ran the business — putting together an incentive structure for employees,
letting go of clients that didn't align with LimeRed's values — revenue rose.
When I proposed the idea
of turning off for discrete periods
of time — with the full support
of his manager — Tad explained to me: «It's
going to be really hard to
let go... even on weekends, I can
not let go... I'm always thinking about work.»
Angry customers want to be heard and likely won't
let go of their anger until you listen.
Never
let a day
go by that you don't grow in some area
of your life.
Diminishers are micro-managers who can
not let go of control.
«The hardest thing for every CEO, especially a founder, is the ability to
let go [and] trust your team; to empower and delegate and
not micromanage; to
not be in the weeds
of every single detail.»
Chances are you'll be adding team members to keep pace and certainly won't
let go of a productive employee who's a cultural fit.