Sentences with phrase «of being great at»

We had a few months of being GREAT at it.

But most of us are great at solving problems.

Traditional chiropractors focus on goals like reducing pain and alleviating symptoms — and most of them are great at what they do.

Not exact matches

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At the same time, online job markets like Elance and oDesk have removed one of the greatest fears of many would - be entrepreneurs — making sales.

«Deep down at heart, we are like kids at Christmas and want to be surprised with something cool,» says Ruhlin «The element of surprise can elevate a gift from good to great.»

A lot of them dropped what they were doing at great personal sacrifice.

«At the end of the day, when everything is working the way that it should, there is nothing greater than the sense of accomplishment in watching your family succeed,» says Hillenmeyer.

At every point in my career that I've had a chance to co-opt a little bit of someone else's creative process, it's always been great for me.

While a great attitude and being nice goes a long way, it doesn't help you establish any more of a connection with a client than a drive - through attendant at a fast food joint would.

That's partly a sign of greater financial strains on baby boomers who feel they can't afford to retire, as Alicia Munnell of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wrote this week for MarketWatch.

The slower hiring isn't a sign of trouble at small businesses, but instead a change in strategy from before the Great Recession.

It's obviously geared towards having the chance of a romantic connection, but if it's not, then there's a great chance that it'll at least be a friend or someone that might be a good business connection or something, and so I think being geared towards just social discovery generally both makes it a more effective product and also there's still I feel like a little bit of a stigma associated with online dating, and this makes it just a much more accessible product.

On the flip side, women who find themselves at the helm of surging companies may repeatedly put off starting families because their obligations are too great.

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

«In terms of output, it's great to be in a groove and good at what you do, but I feel I'm doing my best work when I'm a little outside my comfort zone.

Of course we want to be great at both but, again, we're really pretty different from the pure tech companies.»

It's great to be customer - centric, and frankly, there have been a number of companies that have been chomping at the bit to talk about how customer - centric they are.

Canadian Business spoke to Pink, who will speak at the upcoming 2017 GREAT CEOs Speaker Series in Mississauga, ON about why he's ultimately optimistic that adoption of AI will be positive for society and the future of work.

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

The industry alliance that managed the upgrade of the Great Eastern Highway has been recognised for excellence in construction and environmental management at this year's Earth Awards for civil infrastructure.

Many new food delivery services are targeting corporate clients instead of individual consumers, understanding that the value proposition might be greater at the corporate level.

«While we do not believe that either of these new sweeteners / flavoring agents will be the natural, great - tasting and calorie - free «silver bullet» that the industry has been waiting for, we believe it is possible that they will be able to drive interest, engagement and potentially sales growth because of the massive consumer / societal need to reduce sugar and enhance healthiness,» Ali Dibadj, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, said in a note last December that previewed sweetener innovations expected this year from Coke and Pepsi.

Sir George Sydenham Clarke, a British officer and colonial administrator at the time, wrote that «the battle of Tsu - shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar.»

The act of simplification is great for leaders because it encourages new ways of looking at old problems, and sets a standard of continuous improvement that can (and will) become infectious in your business or organization.

It's the great intangible, that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for a business owner: How do you get your employees to care about their work as much as you do?

«The first thing to keep in mind is that, in some long run equilibrium, wage inflation should be equal to what the growth rate of productivity is — so how much workers can produce — and the increase in prices for the goods they produce,» he said at the UBS Greater China conference in Shanghai.

«The spread between the 2 - year and 10 - year Treasury is now the tightest it's been since 2007,» said Rob Morgan, chief investment officer at Sethi: «The flattening yield curve in 2007 was a harbinger of the Great Recession of 2008.

Due to the number of seasonal workers in Canada, there is naturally a great deal of seasonality in the data, so it is helpful to look at year - over-year numbers.

It's a tiny fraction of them that have been able to get public at a price greater than $ 1 billion.

(Read Dan's post; it's a great look at why so few people follow a routine of daily, intensive practice... and why, for those that do, it's transformative.)

Customer service is at the core of every great company.

And because of that, it is of great importance for them to at least outsource some tasks that could let them get off their core business.

It's a great story to read along to at any age, but I particularly loved seeing a group of friends in a vulnerable time in life (and a hyper - vulnerable station in life) come together and show each other the loyalty they couldn't get anywhere else.

«The U.S. has very mature investors for the sector, but the Asian investors are quite new to it,» said Li Hang, head of Greater China equity capital markets at investment bank CLSA.

Yet consumers aren't especially good at putting the greater good of the economy ahead of their own circumstances.

«At first, we thought AMT repeal would be great for our clients,» said Leon LaBrecque, JD, CFP, managing partner and CEO of LJPR Financial Advisors.

Just because you're a leader doesn't mean you're a great one (we witnessed a shocking implosion of a CEO at a major drugmaker just this past week).

But that series was very successful, and it was a great shift for me, creatively, because I was at kind of a stale point.

He made a similar suggestion in 2003 during a speech at Georgetown University, pointing to a Bible scripture that spoke of a «day of great slaughter, when the towers fall,» adding «there are consequences when we turn away from our source of our strength.»

Patagonia is another great example of a company that puts its mission at the heart of its existence.

And Kutcher says the competition is designed to improve Sound Ventures» chances of finding a winner: «The more companies you look at, the higher probability that you are going to find something that's great and I think we found something great today.»

The storyline is about an orphan girl in the early years of Great Britain, Mary «Jacky» Faber, who has to disguise herself as a boy to sneak onto a Navy ship just to have a chance at life.

«What we found is that those with the lowest vitamin D levels experienced the greatest benefit from supplementation,» Dr. Adrian Martineau, study author and a professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London, told NPR.

The resulting data will help shape the details of the program, and «allow us to focus resources on where the greatest impact will be,» says Bob Annibale, Global Director of Community Development at Citigroup.

I think HSAs are a great innovation, and not simply because they provide employers with a way of buying cheaper coverage for their workers at a time when health care costs continue to rise.

Facebook, where Thiel sits on the board, has been at the center of calls for greater regulation in recent months.

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

There's a great line [from writer Robert Benchley]: «Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment.»

The FY 2019 request is an even greater disparity: Commerce's request increased to $ 9.9 billion while SBA received the third largest cut of all agencies, at $ 0.6 billion — now just 6 percent of Commerce's proposed budget.