Sentences with phrase «on big»

Everyone loves to talk about staying focused on the big picture, but in a small business short - term results matter most.

If you start to lose focus on the big picture, it might be necessary to take step back from the situation and reassess it, or even seek outside advice.

Some insiders say the ICIJ chose not to work with certain large U.S. media companies like the New York Times because they don't co-operate well on big stories.

Same with Google, which didn't intend to take on the big portals of the time.

Still, it's better to chip away on big projects if you can.

«Instead of focusing on a big resolution, focus on a small daily objective,» psychotherapist and author Amy Morin told INSIDER.

Once you've settled upon it, devote one hour every day to nothing but working on your big plan — maybe that means «forgetting» your BlackBerry in the other room and going offline.

That was simply the icing on the cake, creating a fear of missing out on a big opportunity to one of their rivals.

«As you walk around your office, you constantly see little things that are broken, but you often ignore them because you are urgently working on the big things,» writes Lopp.

Since then, he's taken on big names like Lil Wayne and Rick Ross.

It focuses instead on the big picture — on what it would take to change the situation altogether so that the result would be that we wouldn't have to deal with a pugnacious colleague at all.

So the safest thing to do was prop it up on my big leather couch,» he told CNBC.

Kessler, who took on Big Tobacco in his FDA tenure, directs his glare to big food companies.

Salesforce cofounder and CEO Marc Benioff draws inspiration for his company's constant innovation from everywhere, even the residual energy from the dormant volcano underneath his vacation home on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Let other people indulge their egos, but stay focused on the big picture of what you want to have happen and be willing to give all of the credit away in order to create the outcome you desire.

As Shahien Nasiripour and Tom Braithwaite recount in the Financial Times, this has created some bizarre political marriages, such as that between Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter and Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, who are pushing for a bill that imposes rules so stringent on the big banks it would likely force them to break themselves up.

It's true, people spend more time indoors, they tend to know their neighbors less, some of those traditional activities have been supplanted by talking to people on Facebook or email, playing video games and watching movies on our big screen TVs.

Known for building tanks and nuclear submarines, General Dynamics has been focusing its funds on investing in R&D, repurchasing stock, and kicking back steady dividends to shareholders rather than shelling out on big acquisitions.

But it was good — good enough to watch on a big - screen TV.

«Just a small number of stocks are kind of taking the group higher on the big up days, and on the down days they all kind of go down together.»

That said, pressure on Big Food is at an historic level, as seen by the rapid pace of industry deal making already this year.

Having founded eyeglass startup Warby Parker in 2010 with Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt and David Gilboa, the team took on big - name companies like LensCrafters and Pearle Vision in hopes of disrupting an industry that has seen little, if any, innovation in the recent past.

Weddings are both a joyous family affair and a tangle of moving parts — perhaps it's the stress of making sure one Trump - voting aunt won't be seated next to a Democratic in - law, or rerouting those flowers from the wrong location on the big day — that make the event notoriously stressful for both brides and grooms.

SecureWorks joins several firms looking to tap the capital markets as investor interest in them grows after a spate of cyber attacks on big companies including banks and retailers.

Instead, the store decided to lavish far more attention on the big spenders.

Saturday night hockey was always a huge event, and they wanted to do vignettes on the big players.

I've never seen a superhero who looks like me on the big screen.

In April of this year, Pai announced a proposal that would reverse the Title II classification of internet service providers, removing regulations on big companies like Comcast and Verizon.

The number of workers on big projects in Western Australia is likely to stabilise at just one quarter of the peak level recorded during the mining construction boom, and that's only if planned projects get approved, a new study has found.

When Skorman was launching his chain of video stores, called EmpireVideo, he planned on big success, but was strategic about who he would target.

On the big day, technical glitches at Nasdaq delayed the listing, creating mass confusion among traders.

However, analysts say the impact of stricter rules surrounding uninsured mortgages as of Jan. 1 and tumultuous NAFTA negotiations will weigh on the Big Five banks.

David has made his reputation reporting from the ground on every big story of recent times, and we know that when the big stories happen, wherever they happen, David will be there for us and our audience.

I don't want to say focus on the big stuff versus the small stuff, because sometimes the small things can make the biggest impact.

Put together a Gantt chart so that you can maintain focus on the big picture and see how what you do each day impacts it.

What was heard most clearly during the Squawk interview, though, was the answer to the question on every big corporate spender's mind when it comes to opening up the purse strings and hopping on the big data bandwagon.

Valeant has fallen 40 percent this week, and some traders appear to be betting on another big tumble in the next few months.

Two in five software engineers working on big data solutions say that government agencies are tracking the data they're collecting, creating, and analyzing.

I was doing kind of tax and tax litigation on the big corporate level.»

Almost 40 percent of software engineers working on big data solutions think the government is spying on them, and why wouldn't they?

The «students» tend to be scientists and academics who are working on big science challenges — hairy problems in biotech and pure technology — funded by the NSF.

«Bringing this differentiator to the LCBO on this historic project to consumers of legal age across Ontario, is a great example of a made - in - Canada innovation, which we are proud to be a part of,» said Loren Padelford, vice-president of Shopify Plus, the division that focuses on big clients.

Paul has pushed votes on big things, like the corrugator, and on little things, like the colors used when the office was redecorated.

The wedding will be livestreamed in the Plaza's Palm Court on big - screen TVs as it unfolds live midday in England at Windsor Castle.

The announcement raises the bar for the world's most valuable company — now a huge driver of the economy — to continue its dominance and growth in the wake of political pressure on big tech companies.

The West Australian Symphony Orchestra will put on two special performances to accompany Peter Jackson's movie Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on the big screen on June 21 and 22.

Whether we're surfing the Web, making a call on our mobile phones, or watching a DVD movie on our big - screen TV, we take our modern conveniences for granted.

He tried one more time, and this time staked everything on a big, fancy ad of the type he had admired.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Hotels are getting in on royal wedding mania, offering $ 50,000 packages fit for a queen, handing out condoms decorated with the Union Jack and hosting Champagne parties where the wedding will be shown on big - screen TVs.

(We went from a George W. Bush administration that was heavy on big business backgrounds — Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Bush himself — to one whose members had backgrounds in the public sector — Vice President Biden, Hillary Clinton, Obama, etc.).