Sentences with phrase «ourselves the job of»

But when it comes to fast - growth entrepreneurship of the exalted and peculiar variety that produces breakthrough entrepreneurs, the U.S. has done a great job of unlocking only about half of our human capital.

Like most cable companies, Comcast also seems to be doing not a bad job of shifting customers to lower - priced «skinny bundles» so that it doesn't lose them completely.

The U.S. Federal sentencing guidelines reward companies for even attempting to do a competent job of implementing an ethics and compliance program.

«People don't walk around with anti-résumés telling you what they have not studied or experienced (it's the job of their competitors to do that), but it would be nice if they did,» Taleb claims.

The best tools for the job of warding off threats to financial stability appear to be regulation, supervision and macro-prudential policy.

You can say you have not done a good job of communicating what you've been investing in.

But the main job of the booster is to accelerate the spaceship to around 8,500 kilometers an hour.

«We believe we're doing an excellent job of bringing new young developers into Nintendo,» he says.

Even though it is practically impossible to create the desktop experience on mobile apps, still Canva does a decent job of ensuring that the major features are easily available for you.

All too often, organizational cuts go too deep, taking out linchpin individuals and keepers of institutional memory, as well as unsung individual contributors who do the job of multiple people.

This video does a pretty good job of outlining the main points, however:

According to multiple reports, the president is said to be upset that Spicer and other members of his press team often don't do a good job of communicating his message, or become confused about what the message is, and that makes his government look weak or unsure of what it is doing.

The job of your IT support is to handle all the networks inside the business.

Doctors generally do a great job of diagnosing patients.

While it's true that Uber has done a pitiful job of engaging the governments in charge of regulating local taxi regimes — by and large, that's been a key part of the company's strategy — it's time Uber learned to play nice with the cities it hopes to conquer.

This book does a great job of being therapist and consultant — from someone who's been there and done that — to those of us who have asked ourselves this very question.

But even if they had done a better job of adapting, they would probably still be fighting to remain relevant and profitable, because the media world has changed around them.

Yet that didn't make the job of picking the 2015 Company of the Year any easier for Inc. editors.

Heather Payne, founder of Ladies Learning Code and Hacker You, talks with Rhiannon Traill of the Economic Club of Canada about how to help young workers build their technical skills for the jobs of the future.

(The company was preparing for an all - hands meeting later in the day, and was trying to do a better job of linking in their satellite offices in Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Rochester, N.Y.)

«Revised guidance implies sales «fell off the cliff» in January,» he said in a note to clients, adding that while many investors credit former CEO Christine Day with Lululemon's success, she has done a poor job of setting up her successor.

Or is it because Comcast is doing a better job of adapting, or benefiting from the difficulties of other players in the TV distribution marketplace?

Management does an amazing job of keeping everyone involved.

Manufacturers do a pretty good job of addressing this issue as is the case with each of the blankets we chose as our top picks.

Gillian Thomas, senior staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, says that in order to create safer spaces for women, individuals in leadership positions must do a better job of setting a good example.

«If we get complaints about a manager, that manager has to go to each member of his team and say, «Listen, I can't stay here unless I do a better job of being your manager, so what am I doing wrong?»»

When Stryker was offered the job of starting and managing a photographic unit for Jersey Standard, he refused.

So really that's the job of the boosters.

Patagonia has done a good job of imbuing its people with a sense of purpose and mission.

If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.

Our vice president Tim Katsch also does a great job of keeping me informed about industry trends and best practices.

SPECIAL REPORT: With the number of apprentices and trainees continuing to decline, Tafes and RTOs are refining their strategies to prepare people for jobs of the future.

This isn't always a bad thing and it's part of the psychology — or pathology if you prefer — that also makes it possible for entrepreneurs to quickly get over their past hiccups and get on with their main job of making history and changing the world.

(See This isn't always a bad thing and it's part of the psychology — or pathology if you prefer — that also makes it possible for entrepreneurs to quickly get over their past hiccups and get on with their main job of making history and changing the world.

Shell does a better job of describing what will be needed to achieve holding temperature rise to no more than two degrees Celsius, including setting itself ambitious carbon reduction targets.

Retail, not mining, has borne the brunt of the slowdown in Western Australia during the past 12 months, with a study of the state's economy by the investment bank Goldman Sachs revealing a startling decline in retail jobs of more than 20 per cent.

Toronto's CEO - turned mayor on how tech is transforming cities: «Why should the job of people in public life... be to try and stop change?»

We just haven't done a good enough job of extending the opportunity.»

It's the job of Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi to know what's going on with his constituents, which means a lot of conversations — and a lot of listening.

First, all available evidence (see here, here, here, and here) suggests that our current public pensions do an adequate job of providing retirement income to lower - income Canadians.

But certainly Elon Musk has done an extraordinary job of going to zero to where he is.

That's the job of a corporation.

«Parliament has today backed the government in its determination to get on with the job of leaving the E.U.,» said British Brexit secretary David Davis.

When a customer has a negative experience with a company or product and you do a good job of resolving it, they are more loyal than if nothing had gone wrong in the first place.

Since the fall, we've seen a calculated effort by the US and its allies to vilify and isolate Iran — as if that country's mullahs didn't do a good enough job of that on their own.

NPR's senior vice president for news, Michael Oreskes, said the job of journalists is «to report, to find facts, and establish their authenticity and share them with everybody.

Here's a list of 10 jobs of the future you should start training for now to get ahead of the employment curve:

Lane did a nice job of reminding his audience why trade is good.

Here are the top 10 most and least stressful jobs of 2014.

«A fool with a tool, is still a fool — but in simply doing a better job of applying existing data insights to critical business questions.