Sentences with phrase «of running a big»

At some point yes, the cost of running a big operation gets too great when customer participation falls below critical mass.

Sutter hired co-writer and co-executive producer Elgin James to handle the job of running the big show.

Not many people in my network have time to write just on Linkedin, since most of them run big companies, but there are always the content SEO spammers.

Hardworking retail management professional versed in all aspects of running a big box retail store, including... asset protection and recruiting.

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Of the five additional My Big Fat Greek Gyro locations they opened, each were run by a different family.

The only good news about the big guys is that there is another group of them (think AOL and Yahoo for starters) who are so lost, so behind the curve, and so desperate to deliver something for their shareholders that they are constantly running around and throwing money at the shiniest new things in a panic.

Jonathan Crandall, who runs J.C. Landscaping in Danvers, Mass., is a big believer in holding out for financing deals that pop up at the end of a model year.

But a big part of the movement is that they ran out of space.

Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

I would take a couple of big things I want to get done like run a marathon, lose 30 pounds, and put it at the bottom of the page.

Whether you're running your company out of your dorm room or Skyping your partners in four different time zones, here are a few tricks to help the little guys compete against the big fish.

He also wants to hire an enterprise sales force that hits the ground running to keep BlackBerry on the radar of its biggest business customers.

Both phones excite me a little more than the standard run of the mill, mainly because they represent a big departure for Samsung.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Napster co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to sell first - run movies to home viewers at $ 50 a pop has stirred up various corners of Hollywood, with big movie studios and theater chains up in arms over the Screening Room idea while multiple major filmmakers have landed on opposing sides of the argument.

The latest attempt came on Saturday, when an article ran in The Wall Street Journal to promote a new book, Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business, by Robert D. Atkinson and Michael Lind.

But just how big of a problem is front - running today?

In 1936, a magazine called The Literary Digest ran one of the biggest opinion polls of all time.

Spend your time on things that matter — focus on the big picture and the long run instead of giving in to instant gratification.

Harriet Jackson, an economist at the Bank of Canada, determined that money markets — the biggest worry of doubters — were running smoothly.

Despite all the challenges of running a business, the biggest constant in my life is those mentors, and their advice.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

In fact, I keep a running list of customer feedback so I can speak to the tech team about how technology can solve these problems, big or small.

This new stream may well run dry, but it's the kind of risk that shows your leadership isn't afraid to make those shifts that can lead to big growth.

This rise is the biggest change in how meetings are run since the introduction of PowerPoint.

The run - up to Christmas is, of course, their blockbuster season, so the event is where they start to build buzz for the biggest games of the year.

«Even if Uber can get 10 percent of that market, in the long run that still gives them a revenue of $ 200 billion [a year], which will make them one of the biggest companies in the world,» says Sundararajan, who didn't divine when he thought this might happen.

What a lot of people don't know is that in 1892 it made that big shift that turned it from also - ran to a household name.

And the big umbrella goal: «I want to be in position to start, run or manage my own business or organization within 10 years of graduation.»

But time is running out, according to some big name entrepreneurs, like Steve Case, founder and former chief executive officer of AOL, who spoke to Inc. in late May about immigration reform.

Besides just being a valuable compendium of wisdom on achieving success, the massive run down of characteristics of the super accomplished could serve as a self - diagnostic checklist, allowing you to uncover areas to improve in order to increase your chances of making it big.

It's a big part of Berkshire that stands to get only bigger, Buffett said in May at the company's annual shareholder meeting, adding that it's «hard to imagine a better - run operation.»

Eventually, the MDA presented Lewis with the idea of staging a bigger show, and in 1966 the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon debuted, launching a legendary 45 - year run that has raised billions of dollars for MD services and research.

«At most places, the owners are a big part of running the day - to - day business.»

Regardless of how much you spend dining out, going homemade can save you big in the long run.

Comey added that the flaw, which is now believed to have been found by hackers who worked with the FBI, would only work on an iPhone 5c running iOS 9 — a relatively small slice of Apple's total iPhone users who have largely moved on to the bigger iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s lines.

And finally, anything that keeps growing and getting bigger always runs the risk of distancing your best people from your customers.

When Target acquired the leases of 124 old Zellers locations, it inherited a higher - cost store structure that it can do little about: outdated floor plans that run over multiple levels are no match for sleek, single - entrance big - box stores designed for ultra-efficiency.

The success of the Switch, which is projected to outsell the four - year run of the Wii U in just one year, along with the nostalgia - driven NES and SNES Classic craze will result in a big payoff for Nintendo.

There's nothing unusual about affiliate marketing, but Left alleges Shopify's financial relationships to its affiliates are not disclosed, running afoul of the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S., which has made a big push for transparency in advertising.

The big automakers are also running leaner operations — they closed a number of underperforming plants during the crisis — and their balance sheets are the cleanest they've been in years.

The other two members of the big three in January settled long - running lawsuits with the State of West Virginia over alleged violations, though neither admitted wrongdoing.

Conventional wisdom is that a 4 % annual drawdown rate is the way to go — a withdrawal big enough to keep your retirement years comfortable, but not so big that you risk running out of money prematurely.

One of the biggest problems with issuing software updates to Windows machines is having to account for the fact that they have to run on systems with wildly different components.

At a sprawling plant run by New Zealand's biggest meat processor, rows of lamb carcasses hang from meathooks on their way to a cutting room to be chopped, trimmed and shipped out in increasing quantities to China.

«The sky's the limit, but you have to get in the air to see how far you can reach the stars» and «My biggest fear is that we will run out of cash before we achieve traction and meaningful growth, and everyone's work will be for naught.»

As Yuval Bashar, LinkedIn principal engineer and president of Open19 told Fortune, the Open Compute Foundation may be great for the biggest of the big web companies like Google but is less applicable for the many smaller businesses that still run their own data centers.

It does includes a wide circle of wealthy Russians though that run some of the country's biggest companies, including the heads of Russia's two biggest banks Sberbank and VTB, metals magnates and the boss of state gas monopoly Gazprom.

Inside the story of Molly Bloom, the 26 - year - old who ran a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood's biggest players.

These tricks can have good intentions: A fitness app might encourage you to run an extra mile, while a calendar alert might remind you of a big meeting.