Sentences with phrase «of the smaller teams in»

The Swiss finished qualification level on points with Portugal, but well behind on goal difference, as they didn't always manage to break down the massed defences of the smaller teams in the group.

Although amazing moments stick in football fans minds forever, the Giant Killings above are just one way to look at the success of small teams in the FA Cup.

Experience of working with minimal supervision or as part of a small team in analyzing mechanical failures.

Not exact matches

Crammed into a small, fourth - floor office in Toronto's trendy Queen Street West area, he and his team of seven — collectively known as Blot Interactive — are crunching to get their first video game done.

On the night of June 25, 1974, a team from the National Cash Register installed new scanners and computers at the Marsh Supermarket in the small town of Troy, Ohio.

The founding team was comprised of a serial entrepreneur, a CTO who had scaled a small business to hundreds of millions in revenue and a talented business development person with relevant industry experience.

«I believe the CEO of a small - to - medium business has three major duties: to make sure there is money in the bank; to get the right people in the right roles; and to guide the long - term vision for the company,» said Nick Gray, the founder and CEO of Museum Hack, a team - building company in New York City that counts major brands, including Facebook, among its customers.

«I have a small team, but if I allow Ouya to be open in every sense of the word, some amazing things can happen,» Uhrman says.

Idea you can steal: Empower a dedicated team (or, in the case of smaller companies, a key person) that's responsible and accountable for the success of your content marketing program.

Green helped Weiss raise $ 2 million in seed funding, which she used to assemble a small team, including creative director Helen Steed, a beauty industry vet who'd helped build Bumble & Bumble, and COO Henry Davis, who came from the London office of venture capital firm Index Ventures.

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.

But in today's business environment, small companies have embraced sponsorship of everything from local softball and volleyball teams to festivals, fairs, and park cleanups as an effective means of increasing their visibility in their home community.

Yet small - business owners often tend to replicate the corporate work environment they're familiar with in order to encourage productivity and a sense of job security in team members.

Beedie places a strong emphasis on teamwork, with students getting to know each other, along with their professors, at a weekend retreat in Whistler at the beginning of the program and undertaking projects in small teams.

«When Wolfgang Schroeter started the business, he was working with five people in a small space, and he thought of all of them as members of his team — his associates, not his employees,» McArthur says.

In a bigger environment with more individual flexibility, the selfish worker may be able to thrive, but in the confines and team - intensive environment of a small business, there's no benefiIn a bigger environment with more individual flexibility, the selfish worker may be able to thrive, but in the confines and team - intensive environment of a small business, there's no benefiin the confines and team - intensive environment of a small business, there's no benefit.

Today, the small executive team in charge of the company remains convinced they can save the chain again.

It rolled out two new plans in January that provide users access to a small team of human advisers.

Brendan Howe, President and CEO of Techify (and a sleep - deprived dad of two small children), explains his strategies for leading a team when he's in a rotten mood:

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.

Before Steinbrenner made a name for himself when he acquired ownership of the New York Yankees, he owned a small basketball team called the Cleveland Pipers back in 1960.

He groups employees into small, self - managing teams that choose their own managers, compete for internal talent, and can earn big bonuses — unusual in the West and unheard - of in China.

The government teamed up in April with the EIF to launch Equifund, the 400 million euro fund - of - funds aimed at startups and other small companies.

I was managing a small team of writers and designers, and my leadership skills were — in full disclosure — still a little underdeveloped.

In his revised edition of Growth Hacker Marketing, Ryan Holiday explored how traditional big - budget marketing is being replaced by more effective small teams (and sometimes individuals) who are using trackable and scalable tools to grow companies.

«Mehl and his team found that the happiest person in the study had twice as many substantive conversations, and only one - third the amount of small talk, as the unhappiest person,» reports author Jenn Granneman on Psychology Today.

In eight years, the teams scored victories in a series of small - time swindles, and secured multiple convictions connected to Norbourg Financial Group, a manifestly fraudulent mutual fund companIn eight years, the teams scored victories in a series of small - time swindles, and secured multiple convictions connected to Norbourg Financial Group, a manifestly fraudulent mutual fund companin a series of small - time swindles, and secured multiple convictions connected to Norbourg Financial Group, a manifestly fraudulent mutual fund company.

Questrade also puts a strong focus on agile management, a common practice in technology companies that brings together people from different areas of the company to work in small teams to quickly roll out new features while constantly iterating.

The team's goal should be to deliver a small number of high - quality designs, not to produce a large number of designs in the hope that one will «stick.»

The team reports that the volcano has been stirring for 67 years, with two - year periods of unrest in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s giving rise to small earthquakes — a pattern that was also seen in the lead - up to the 1538 eruption.

We found more companies coming to us, as well as more people in - house with suggestions for opportunities, so instead of just a small team thinking about acquisitions, there were 28,000 employees thinking about the possibilities.

In most instances, a small business's marketing teams should be able to handle online reputation management, since much of the task involves basic social networking and Website upkeep, along with reaching out to the clientele.

One of the most recognized names in small business accounting, QuickBooks offers both desktop and online versions (depending on the needs of your company and the experience of your team members), you may prefer one over the other.

A small team of Facebook engineers in the U.K. spent 14 months building the plane.

Nevertheless, Williams did manage to finish a number of projects at Twitter: He migrated Twitter to a new data center and revamped its technology; moved headquarters as the company grew, landing in offices in downtown San Francisco; made six small acquisitions; and hired another 280 employees, including most of the current management team.

But entrepreneurs could also learn a few lessons by examining the hiring practices of Major League Baseball teams, most of whom — the ones in small and medium markets — adhere to strict budgets for their payrolls.

His small team, which is working on a game called The Long Dark (due next year), is comprised of industry veterans who have collectively worked at a number of the big studios in Canada, including Ubisoft Montreal, BioWare and Relic Entertainment.

The aim is to build a team of about nine, including themselves by the end of the year, with a small office in Hong Kong also expected to open before the year - end.

Lithuania only got to the games thanks to funding from small time donors and one big contributor: THE Grateful Dead (pictured), who commissioned the t - shirts in support of the team / country's recent independence from the Soviet Union.

A lot of the company's business was in hooking together PCs at small businesses so teams could share information.

In addition to this public challenge, the company hosts inter-office competitions, breaking their staff of 16 into small groups and tracking the number of employees who cycle to work, offering lunch, a beer or latte to the winning team at the end of the week.

Deep in the bowels of Houston's 72,000 - seat NRG Stadium, in a curtained - off makeshift room near the court where the Villanova Wildcats and the University of North Carolina Tarheels are playing for the NCAA basketball championship, a small team of engineers and data scientists from a company called Lightwave huddles over laptops watching a stream of real - time data.

To determine the effect of small acts of rule breaking on perceptions of power, the research team conducted a series of experiments that asked volunteers to evaluate the personal power of people in imagined or videotaped situations (a visitor to an office who helps himself to coffee or a cafe patron who puts a foot up on a chair, for example) and in role plays.

Did you know that out of the current crop of «Unicorn» companies, less than 10 have a woman on the founding team, and only a small percentage include any women in their advisory boards?

In the past, his team has relied on organic measures like referrals (the company amassed 200,000 - plus Facebook fans mostly by word of mouth), but it has tried more targeted efforts recently, including a small campaign using Yahoo's native ads platform.

The athletic wear brand experienced a small public relations snafu this week when FIFA banned Luis Suarez, the star of Uruguay World Cup team, from the rest of the World Cup for biting a rival player in a match against Italy.

Now at the helm of multiple businesses with a small team around her, Moreno believes strongly in hiring by trusted referral.

Keller points out that one of the reasons to own a franchise in the first place is because owners almost always make money when they sell; but in the U.S. most teams aren't making profits from attendance and TV revenues are small compared to other leagues, all of which dampens buyer interest.

In this week's column, viewer Angle Bush from our June 12 Google Hangout asks Team Digital: What has been the most unique and successful example of online marketing from a small business that you have seen?

We're a small team, and instead of having to make sure that our information is inputted correctly in multiple locations, we just input it once and it syncs seamlessly.»