Not exact matches
If this were an old Disney movie made while Walt was
at the controls, this would be the moment in the story when a
little bit
of magic would appear — perhaps in the form
of a fairy godmother or some pixie dust — to make things right.
If these sound like big philosophical quandaries
at the heart
of not just being an entrepreneur but also being a human then maybe that's why most solutions to work - life balance issues seem a
little inadequate.
But even in the case
of 23andMe's home DNA kits, some question the morality
of telling a customer he is
at high risk for Alzheimer's when there's
little the person can currently do about it.
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.
This chart's a
little difficult to interpret
at first, but I kind
of decided to put it there for people who wanted to watch the video afterwards and sort
of take a closer look, analyze some
of the numbers.
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.
Read enough
of these stories — as well as the avalanche
of posts and articles out there urging you to up your productivity by getting up early — and you're bound to feel a
little guilty if you're not naturally up and
at»em
at dawn.
«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.
Even though most interviews include
at least a few
of the most common interview questions, and even if the candidate is asked to answer one or two unusual interview questions (like these), the answers can seem a
little too rehearsed and a lot insincere.
They found themselves standing shoulder to shoulder with predators in a small room
of a posh hotel basement looking
at little girls through a pane
of glass.
Very
little, says Andrew Crane, professor
of business ethics
at York University's Schulich School
of Business.
A core tenet
of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a
little bit chuffed when the person
at the top
of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.
«Actually shopping
at Amazon Go feels a
little weird,» writes Rachel Metz
of MIT Technology Review.
Nearly one year after Jack Dorsey retook his position as CEO
of Twitter, very
little has changed
at the tech company.
Still, the fact that the
little guys can now have access to technology similar to even the biggest corporations
at least gives them more
of a fighting chance.
The near - term growth potential
of a brand's business is almost entirely circumscribed by the number
of people out there in the world who are already somewhat familiar with it and
at least a
little intrigued.
If the notion
of journaling sounds a
little too Oprah-esque, send a quick email to someone — even yourself — citing something you're grateful for
at work.
While you are eligible to receive 75 percent
of your retirement benefits
at age 62, that could be reduced to as
little as 50 percent depending on your tax bracket, Myers said.
If you get the strategy and the values
of the business right, the execution, while no less challenging, is
at least a
little easier to pull off.
But the process
of truly deleting an account is
at least a
little tricky — and along the way, you might find out you were more dependent on Facebook than you thought.
Right now, you can get one
of Nest's Thermostat for as
little as $ 139.99
at Best Buy; all you need to do is sign into your MyBestBuy account (the free account you've made if you have ever shopped on Best Buy's website before) to save.
Ours may need some tweaking, but for now
at least, my colleagues and I have found plenty
of positive things to comment on: work we're proud
of, jokes about office nicknames and even a
little cheerfulness about the weather («Not wearing a sweater for the first time in... I can't even remember,» one colleague posted).
Only 45 percent
of those surveyed said they trusted their leadership, while a
little more than half said they were not happy
at work, and one in every two employees did not expect to be with their organization for more than a year more.
«I remember in the very early days
of Alpha, when we were struggling a
little bit, we looked
at how we could involve more high - frequency traders because they were very good
at igniting liquidity,» he says.
A
little more than two years later,
at the encouragement
of activist investor Bill Ackman, Harrison came out
of retirement to become president and CEO
of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP).
In fact, employees can take results to heart and begin acting to type or defining themselves by a self - limiting label, warns Brian
Little, a professor emeritus
of psychology
at Carleton University and current research fellow
at Cambridge University.
Koho is aimed primarily
at generation Y, a demographic with
little patience for the delays and high fees
of traditional financial institutions.
The first part
of the suggestion comprises
of obliging the financial sector to write off a certain (not huge) amount
of their bad debt, while also driving down the costs
of doing business a
little more
at the same time.
While part
of his plans involve taking on a larger role
at Initialized Capital, the VC firm he co-founded with Garry Tan, he also says that the decision involved the «promise he made to this
little poppy seed.»
I also allow myself to zone out on social media a
little bit
at the end
of the night.
China has some options with regard to its purchases from Boeing if the trade spat widens with the U.S., but
little slack remains on the supply side in the near term with manufacturers «running
at full capacity,» says Ken Herbert
of Canaccord Genuity.
Sun's advice to aspiring entrepreneurs: «Just believe in your power and start by making
little steps, because you never know what will come out
at the end
of the tunnel.»
«It's a place for staff to go and release a
little bit
of stress, continue the work conversation and build camaraderie,» says CEO Sanjay Malaviya, taking a sip
of his first beer
of the day
at 4:30 on a recent afternoon.
«I had this
little moment where I thought, «We have a chance here,»» recalls Smith, now a fellow
at the Queen's University School
of Public Policy.
Thus, it might have
at least a
little hope
of a broad - based, albeit hardly ideal, appeal to some
of the various groups vying for influence over the directions which policy makers choose to take.
Morneau has
little choice
at this stage but to rubber - stamp the Bank
of Canada's recommendations on a new mandate.
It's fairly typical that your customers, competitors and industry will take note
of your final «instant success» and marvel
at how easy you made it look, and give
little consideration for the bumps, bruises and cold nights on a mountain ledge you may have suffered along the way.
It's hard to discuss the big ideas
of 2017 without getting
at least a
little political.
Musk, proponent
of hurtling people
at 1,000 kilometres per hour through tubes powered by air pressure, has
little time for common sense.
In other cases, Silver argues, media organizations chose to not focus on the polls
at all, but turned their attention to secondary or even tertiary events that had
little impact on the outcome
of the election.
These «
little» leaders who are drinking their own Kool - Aid and who think you can fool all
of the people
at least some
of the time (while you're trying to figure things out) are on their way to a rude awakening and an abrupt collision.
«You must know very
little about what the president
of the Republic actually has to do all day,» he fired back
at a French reporter who brought the topic up.
In fact, if you see someone taking a big whiff
of a newly popped cork, you might feel a
little embarrassed for them - as was the case recently when a waiter
at a fancy restaurant made a big show
of sniffing my cork for me like it was a newly found truffle!
Almost a
little too obsessed — they spend a lot
of time on details that
at first glance wouldn't seem to be really important.
Research from the Department
of Kinesiology
at Southern Illinois University showed that as
little as three 11 - minute intense strength - training sessions a week resulted in an increase in fat burn
at rest, and a chronic increase in energy expenditure throughout the day.
The term can sound a
little woo - woo
at first, but as Li, a doctor and chairman
of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine, explains, the idea is anything but New Age nonsense.
It's hard not to scoff
at some
of the products you see pitched in infomercials — but the format deserves a
little respect.
The central bank kept its inflation forecast for this year
at 2.7 percent but said that some
of its monetary policy committee members «moved a
little closer» to their limits for tolerating an overshoot in the bank's inflation target.
When the timid Peggy Olson is hired as Don Draper's secretary
at the start
of season one, there's
little evidence her skills extend beyond taking shorthand.
Comprehensive new research from scientists
at Harvard, Yale, Northeastern, and the University
of Maryland shows we have a clear tendency to assign certain characteristics to others based on how much (or how
little) they leave to the imagination (via Wired).