Sentences with phrase «of the best teams at»

Six sacks in a game is a lot, but the Panthers and Broncos are two of the best teams at bringing down opposing passers.

We are one of the best teams at picking up points from losing positions, which is a positive.

The best teams are families — and we definitely have one of the best teams at Blackbird Caye Resort!

Not exact matches

They knew we would take care of their needs, they knew we would be careful to not reveal trade secrets, that we would have the best interest of the team at heart... and we made sure to make them a part of the process.

Here, we've put together a dream team of tips, advice, recommendations and best practices from small - business owners who were honored at National Small Business Week, an annual celebration of all small businesses across the U.S.

I shot my team down on all of these with a polite, but adamant no and an explanation that our time was best spent at doing what we're good at: selling online.

Marino's draft stock had fallen after a disappointing senior season at Pitt, as well as rumors of recreational drug use, rumors which even led Marino's hometown team the Pittsburgh Steelers to pass on selecting him.

The core focus of the president's domestic policy agenda has been to expand opportunity for all Americans because America is at its best when we are fielding a full team.

With a tiny handful of teams scrambling to sign the world's best players, there is a growing gap between the few, like Barça, with enough money to compete at the highest level, and the masses below them.

Are you leading the next great startup, or are you a part of an executive team at a well - established corporation?

Our goal is to have sophisticated owners of teams that can operate at a high level, know how to build businesses, know how to build sports, and who aren't going to be working against each other, but are going to be collaborating in the best interests of fans around the world.

«He's such a big part of everything you do because the honest truth is he's so good at everything a team needs a player to do,» Jones said.

Then, at the beginning of each month, hold meetings with team leaders, to bring detailed monthly and weekly plans, as well as some additional milestones within those plans.

Sometimes that means making judgments about what the current team is capable of — and what it's not so good at.

According to First Round Capital's analysis of its own portfolio, companies with at least one female founder provided them with 63 % better returns on investment than companies with all - male teams.

If you've read Patrick Lencioni's masterpiece The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, you know the foundation for any good relationship is trust — it's the foundation for his pyramid model — and that foundation simply can not happen without transparency at work.

At venture capital firm First Round Capital's recent CEO Summit, Scott talked about how to make sure you're providing the right type of guidance to your team and being a good boss.

Our record was not very good as a team (4 - 12) but we still managed to have 12,000 at our final game of the season last year.

It's a good idea to schedule a lunch or other informal get - together with your new hire and at least one or two members of the team he or she will be joining prior to the first official day at work, says Raz.

«You could see how people would say this one checks all the boxes — amazing team, a market set up for them and a good product,» said Travis Scher, vice president of investments at Digital Currency Group in New York.

In 2008, the institution's leadership team learned through the results of the first Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (HCAHPS) that patients» perception of their experience at the clinic was well below average in virtually every individual measure.

Again, it would be really easy to say, «Well, of course elite athletes have athletic bodies,» but seeing them here is enough to set aside the snark for a second and just marvel at the prowess and accomplishments of the women on America's gymnastics team.

Well, to make a long story short while referencing a great episode from Seinfeld, we employed a special team of people to «retrieve» the reports for us, and «yadda yadda yadda,» we appeared at pretrial with these ultra-damaging reports in hand.

In the interview, Raisman — who served as team captain at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympic games — said that she won't rest until there is an independent investigation of both USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic Committee, as well as Michigan State University, where Nassar worked as a sports physician from 1997 to 2016.

«Some of the best decisions our team at Virgin has made involved exiting markets early, when we could see that our product, service or brand was not making a big enough impression on customers,» Branson later wrote.

Tesla filed a lawsuit in January against Sterling Anderson, its former director of Autopilot, as well as Chris Urmson, the previous director of the Google self - driving project, and their startup Aurora Innovation — a new venture the men launched with Drew Bagnell, the former head of the autonomy and perception team at Uber's Advanced Technology Center in Pittsburgh.

The 11 footballers on stage all made the cut in FIFA's Team of the Year, an award unveiled at the Best FIFA Football Awards show in London on Monday.

To select its judges, Next 15 management didn't simply go with the most senior people in the organization; instead, they put up a diverse team selected on the basis of actually being good at judging such a competition: a panel defined not by job title, but by skill and expertise.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

The best kind of advisor is the type of advisor who is interested in becoming part of your dedicated team at some point.

Jim Ferguson, who was part of the creative team at Leo Burnett that came up with the ad, said it was Bird that issued the shooting challenge because Jordan had well - publicized gambling problems at the time.

«If you have more diversity you have better financial performance,» says Theresia Gouw, one - half of the founding team of Aspect Ventures, the norm - breaking VC firm at hand (the other founder is Jennifer Fonstad).

It will focus its initial clinical sequencing efforts on cancer, teaming up with the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego to sequence the genomes of every patient who is treated there, as well as perform a full genome sequence on their tumors.

At the end of each business day, I take some time to regroup and think about the most important items that need to be accomplished the next day, as well as what actions the team needs to take to accomplish those tasks.

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

Shortly after the ruling, Google posted a raft of help - wanted ads seeking «bright, well - organized and spirited individuals to work with a stellar team on cutting edge technology issues» at its offices in Berlin, Rome, London and Brussels.

«At Kimpton I am part of a culture that challenges me to be my best self, challenges me to be a leader in the industry and also surrounds my team and I with some of the best leaders in the industry.»

Researcher Andrew Hafenbrack and his team at INSEAD in Singapore, as well as the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, have concluded that 15 minutes of mindfulness meditation daily can reduce people's tendency to persist with lost causes because of past investment.

In picking their team, Thiel and Levchin brought in only people whom at least one of them knew very well.

«I was given this book at the beginning of my manager journey, and the main point is that you're only as good as the team you surround yourself with.

UCLA Anderson B - school students bested other MBA teams at this year's North American preliminaries for the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup, one of the biggest amateur wine tasting competitions.

It's one of the best books that provides concrete examples of team building at the highest level in the organization.

Focusing on one task at a time ensures teams are putting only the best resources into making a final product any organization can be proud of.

Louis Gray, Google's advocacy team lead, recommends defining the right metrics and goals at the outset of your campaign, as well as creating visually engaging dashboards, in order to get stakeholders to take action.

We train our entire team on how to engage with customers because we believe it makes them better at every aspect of their job.»

For example, John Hall, CEO of Influence & Co., asks his team this question: Is our service competitively priced, and are we so good at what we do that it's a no - brainer for companies to hire us instead of taking it in - house?

There's a very good team here that I'm very proud of, and the business does not rely on me at this point.

Here's how Conaway and team make the most of their time and money at SaaStr Annual 2017 — though these are good tips for any other marketing conference in general:

The people running some of the major teams at Amazon are the best of the best.

He and the Copyblogger team are just so good at explaining the concepts of writing well.