Sentences with phrase «own ambitions»

Still, over the years, Kinect's importance in Microsoft's broader gaming ambitions has declined, leading to the rather decision to kill it.

WeWork's ambitions in the enterprise space are still loosely defined, (the company does not advertise pre-selected packages for enterprise companies on its website, but rather works with companies on a case - by - case basis).

Fear of losing what you've earned can squelch the drivers of your dream such as risk - taking, innovation and ambition.

It was a perfect expression of Google's ambitions: users who are constantly connected, grinning to each other the whole time at just how awesome it all is.

And the competitive set has changed, with regional players in places like Alberta and Quebec expanding across provincial borders and some larger credit unions harbouring national ambitions.

They accept their success is based on ambition, persistence, and execution... but they also recognize that key mentors, remarkable employees, and a huge dose of luck also played a part.

«We have the ambition to keep at least 50 percent of the ownership of all the coming drugs on our own hands and maybe we can take it to the finish line,» said chief executive officer Jan van de Winkel, speaking to reporters before the group's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday.

Chances are, though, that you've got too much energy, and too many «what if» ambitions, to commit to leisure full time.

The falter comes as mixed messaging from the White House has led to uncertainty over whether the Trump administration has a coherent plan to contain Kim Jong - un's regime and nuclear ambitions.

But today, Chinese tech companies have become innovation leaders in some key areas in technology, with truly global ambitions — and Silicon Valley is either too internally focused or complacent to realize it.

Managing a staff of employees — with their diverse personalities, responsibilities, ambitions and pet peeves — can sometimes feel a bit like nailing Jell - O to the wall.

While some investors opposed the move, Xiaomi's decision, four years after Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (baba) chose New York, signals a new phase for the city in its ambitions to rival the U.S. market.

Not cries out of pity but out of joy, pride and sadness at the lost lives, broken families and a broken system but also at the hope, ambition and remorse that I witnessed.

«Canada's improved grade is largely due to an increase in venture capital investment and a strong showing on a new measure — entrepreneurial ambition.

Macron's honeymoon may be over, but after his fledgling party's big parliamentary win in June, his grand ambitions might just be in reach.

SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell has used such creative problem solving to turn the Mars - eyed ambitions of her boss, Elon Musk, into actual Earth - departing rocket ships.

Individuals need to locate themselves on a spectrum of ambition and become fully aware that moving in one direction or the other involves real and sometimes painful losses.

Ambition is commendable, but becoming the owner of a lucrative business requires actionable planning.

No matter what your ambitions are, your role as an entrepreneur is to lead and grow one.

Having a couple inspirational books on hand that can motivate ambition and reaffirm priorities is nice to have, even if they don't pick them up for the first month or so that they're out of school.

Recently, I discovered a gamification tool I'm thrilled with: It's called Ambition.

They will hope and implore that the conversation turns to holiday plans and travel, to new babies and weddings in the extended family, school musicals, college and career ambitions, and that «cooked to perfection» turkey, for heaven's sake — not the tax bill or tweet du jour.

Starbucks outgoing CEO Howard Schultz answers questions on his political ambitions once he has stepped down as CEO of the coffee company.

To understand their ambition, just look at their pop - culture heroes: overachievers like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.

«If you're a winner in China, that means you can be a winner in the world,» he said, alluding to his global ambitions.

A new study, forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Psychology, sheds some light on the connection between ambition and the good life.

Judge and Kammeyer - Mueller found that ambition is only weakly connected with well - being and negatively associated with longevity.

Even the custom license plate on his yellow Lamborghini, which reads «No Degre,» is a testament to his can - do ambition.

China announced its official Arctic policy to the world late last month, promoting Beijing's ambitions for the region and raising fears about a Chinese takeover of the polar zone.

But it should not — and can not — be a disqualification for ambition.»

While ending world hunger is a laudable ambition for agri - tech, another driver is the simpler goal of making the business more profitable for farmers, many of whom are struggling to manage larger farms with fewer hands.

FOURTEEN years ago, Karratha locals Sean and Lisa Clarke had ambitions to establish a vehicle hire business with a fleet of about 50 vehicles.

«I'm not accusing Thiel of any ambitions he hasn't more or less copped to.

Which brings me to the release today of Fortune's annual celebrated «Change the World» list, where we highlight companies that are tackling key societal problems with the same ambition — and, importantly, sustaining profit motive — that they're pursuing their core business operations.

Canada earns its only «A» on the new indicator, entrepreneurial ambition — a measure of the share of the working - age population reporting early - stage entrepreneurial activity, such as attempts to establish or own a new business.

«That doesn't mean keeping ambition in check,» he clarifies.

The owner of a biodiesel demonstration facility in Airdrie who had ambitions to build as many as 12 plants in Western Canada has dropped those plans and converted the existing facility to make canola oil — for cooking purposes.

«There really wasn't a big impact from ambition to how satisfied people were with their lives,» Kammeyer - Mueller, a business school professor, told me.

At first this idea may make your brain hurt, but Prince insists that epic ambitions are actually easier to accomplish that middling ones.

The longest and most in - depth of these is a recent Atlantic piece by Emily Esfahani Smith that looks at the tradeoffs we all face between ambition and community.

Tantalizingly close to achieving his career ambition of seizing control of the Senate, the Kentucky Republican is also as close as he's been during five terms in the chamber to being sent packing.

It also comes as little surprise that the latest hint that the Saudis are likely targeting $ 80 oil is not universally shared among all OPEC members, according to Bloomberg sources who relayed the Saudi ambition for said target.

EU Parliament head Guy Verhofstadt told Business Insider that Brexit was an opportunity for the EU to become a tighter, more unified family of nations, but this ambition is under threat from populist, anti-EU movements in numerous member states.

«The company has a 20 - year ambition,» points out Mickaël Scherrer, «to become the responsible energy major.

Which seems like a good reason to put some serious effort into arming the next generation with the necessary skills and ambition to bring revolutionary ideas to fruition.

You might think that most successful CEOs are super ambitious, and in many ways you'd be right, according to Bryant's interviews, but the high - achieving leaders he spoke with had a very special type of ambition.

«Our ambition is if we're successful, other companies will copy what we're doing.»

And we're not talking Mr. Burns or Dr. Evil levels of maniacal ambition here — even the sort of day - to - day striving driven entrepreneurs engage in can come at a cost, research shows:

Electrolux's Chief Operations Officer Jan Brockmann said the company's ambition was to «develop even more innovative, sustainable home appliances that we might see on the market in the future.»

Its users are becoming evangelists, because Ambition is changing the way they do their jobs.