Sentences with phrase «of letting them go at»

«I think the adults were having a more difficult time of letting them go at the end of the lunch hour because they knew they wouldn't be seeing [the kids] again for three months,» Ortega said.

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That alone sounds like a pretty good case for letting fly with more humor at work, but the study goes on to identify further reasons to let more humor into the sometimes straight - faced world of business.

There was only one area that we were allowed to rent: a strip of land at the edge of my grandfather's house that he let go wild each year as the lemonade stand season approached.Before opening we were required to rent the mower, buy the gas, and mow the lawn.

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

My email to let me know how I can support you in letting go of negative self - talk: lewis at lewishowes.com

But at the end of the day, you're still letting go of a friend.

If a smartphone is left on, let calls go to voicemail and return calls at the end of the day.

His book, «Let My People Go Surfing,» is a kind of living will and testament to his wishes for the running of his company when he is no longer at full capacity.

To get a sense of long - term stagnation, let's look at the data going back 38 years, to 1977.

«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.»

Meanwhile, some myths (I'm looking at you multitasking) are just so attractive (I really do wish I could do three things at once) that they're hard to let go of.

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.

Last September, the company let more than 1,500 factory workers go after a federal investigation found hundreds of undocumented employees at its facilities.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

Part of what allowed him to turbocharge growth, he says, was to step back, look at what he was doing, let go of his desire to control and listen to the experts he had hired.

Bloomberg had read a draft blog post in which SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung explained that the company was letting go of 173 staff, and shutting down its offices in London and San Francisco (leaving only offices in New York City and Berlin) as part of an effort to reduce costs at the company whose losses have been spiralling out of control.

Think about how it feels, relaxing and letting go of the tension in that spot for 15 seconds; repeat on at least two other muscle groups.

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.

Mathile realized at that moment he had been unable to let go of control over his company, and it was actually turning into a detriment to the company's success.

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.

If you just keep those people instead of eliminating the logical positions, you'll find the people you let go are far angrier at you than they would be if you'd been fair.

The smartest thing currently going on at RIM is the development of BlackBerry Fusion, or the toolkit that lets businesses manage all the different phones being brought in by employees.

That deal seems to have fallen largely by the wayside, as the heating and air conditioning maker already let go of nearly 340 employees at the Indianapolis plant in July.

Usually, she writes, «the reason for letting go of a goal is that we've evolved away from the goal, or we thought it sounded good at the time and it no longer does.»

But even after you have corrected for such mismatches and the employee continues to be unsuccessful, it's time to let them go - and, at the risk of sounding harsh it's, the best gift you could ever give them.

Instead of letting your fears get the best of you or letting self - diminishing thoughts convince you that you are not capable, really work at what goes into your mind and what you think about.

He declined to comment on the scope of the layoffs, though sources said at least 10 traders globally had been let go at Koch.

Still, it does have a few things going for it: The «fast delete» button lets you quickly scrap whole words at a time; there's a one - handed mode that lets you crunch the keys over to one side of the screen; and, when your phone is in landscape mode, it splits apart like an ergonomic keyboard, making it feel a little more natural for your thumbs.

«At some point they are going to say there is a smaller set of countries where we will let our data go, and the United States won't be one of them.»

Schultz says he went out of his way to let Obama know that his decision to cut off political cash was not directed at the President specifically, even though Democrats had received almost all his donations in the past.

The ASUS Chromebook C202SA is tough, good - looking and comes at a price that isn't going to make you cry when you drop it, slosh your coffee onto the keyboard or manage to let a bag of tools falls onto it.

He thought to himself, let's look at the facts: there is a film crew, I made an appointment, I am 15 minutes late, and I did decide to go to the gym instead of being responsible.

When should doing what is right; putting oneself at risk; having proper succession planning; mentoring, coaching and developing the next generation of directors; and letting go gracefully and honorably, matter?

«Jimmy was very, very good at letting go of the things that might have made him a success up to that point, but he was willing to shed them and go for something completely different... Jimmy's career is based on a tremendous lack of fear of moving forward.»

There's a couple reasons for this: after massive sleep deprivation and zero separation between work and personal life, taking a step back often reminds a founder of the things that they want in their personal life and gives motivation to the work life and while in a lull this can upset investors or look like avoidance, its in almost every case helped the company and lets be honest, if a company is going to die it isn't going to die in one week but be surprised at how much sleep a founder might need and you probably wouldn't want many friends around.

Let's say you're at a sporting event — are you going to put hundreds or thousands of facial - tracking inputs around the stadium?»

A 1970 New Yorker article quotes him observing crowds of housewives seeking autographs saying: «Umm, that gal's let herself go... Look at the size of that one... I don't know when I've seen so many fat ones... Lord, look at»em waddle.»

Looking back at some of the people I've let go in my company, I now know I put them in the wrong seats on the bus.

«The interest in and consumption of sparkling wines is going to grow,» says Greg Lambrecht, founder and chairman at Coravin, the magical device that lets you pour a glass of wine without uncorking the bottle.

One of our investors actually told me that if there's something that someone can do even 80 percent better than you can, let them do that thing, and you go focus on the thing that only you can do at 100 percent.

That being said, he says he has been getting a lot of tenant interest on the phone, but it seems there has been an epidemic of «flat tires» that leads to a text message from the potential tenant letting him know they are not going to make the appointment — the last one today was outside at the curb when she sent the text:O.

The very real threat of debt collectors knocking at your door, wage garnishment, offset taxes — or worse, legal action — are consequences that can pose major personal and financial damage if you've let your loans go unpaid.

While some Uber investors said that they would agree to sell their shares, several others have privately expressed their unwillingness to let go of Uber shares at such a price.

In his best - selling first book, Scott Eblin calls out the behaviors that leaders need to pick up and let go of to succeed at the next level.

So, for you, what changed from the 2014 post where you «absolutely plan to have PC manage at least $ 100,000 to start this year and go from there» to the 2017 reply of not letting them invest your money?

Insider Tip: If you decide to go for an ongoing social media package at a monthly rate, do not let the agency charge you extra for an audit of your current social activity.

Now let's look at the percentage of profits that may need to go to servicing debt and how much debt service could equal in terms of jobs.

«In fact,» Mr. Black told Mr. Muggeridge at the time, the bridges lift «just to let the masts of the yachts go past,» as they sail and dock up and down the famous Intracoastal Waterway, the 4,800 - kilometre canal that runs from Boston to Texas.

There are 13 of us here today, including myself, so I will try to keep my comments to a minimum and let you go at the governor.