Sentences with phrase «own obsession with»

There is good reason to think the Bank of Canada governor had reservations about former prime minister Stephen Harper's obsession with balancing the budget.

Breaking with Ottawa's decades - long obsession with balanced budgets became a key point of differentiation

Separately, Zuckerberg admitted his own obsession with his iPhone: He wrote his Founder's Letter in the company's S - 1 using his mobile.

China's obsession with SUVs is 10 years old and going strong.

Petite & Sweet staff set about creating a higher - end version of the Twinkie, incorporating their recent obsession with salted caramel, a rising trend in dessert offerings, as well as their penchant for ganache, into two Twinkie prototypes.

Chris converted his obsession with racing fast cars into a lucrative business model that, sixteen years later, is pulling in $ 6 million - a-year.

Blame the full - size sedan's slow demise on the national obsession with SUVs and Ford Motor Co.» s need to slash costs and remake itself for a new era of self - driving cars and shuttles.

For example, if one partner has an obsession with detail and the other neglects this, or one is naturally assertive and the other is more passive, it could lead to frustrations.

«There are real shortcomings in how American politics are covered, including pervasive groupthink among media elites, an unhealthy obsession with the insider's view of politics, a lack of analytical rigor, a failure to appreciate uncertainty, a sluggishness to self - correct when new evidence contradicts pre-existing beliefs, and a narrow viewpoint that lacks perspective.»

My colleague Aaron Pressman, who has done hands down the best coverage on this topic, has written here about how the Trump administration's obsession with China is driving Legere's latest urge to merge.

And when we collectively move on, the people who create a lot of the content touting this technology never take a moment to reflect on our collective obsession with technology and whether any of it is actually making human beings happier, healthier, smarter, or better off.

Known for his work on Fitbit trackers and the Lytro camera, Amit believes that an obsession with empathy in the design world can waste time.

Chris converted his obsession with racing fast cars into a lucrative business model that 16 years later, is pulling in $ 6 million - a-year

Consider our culture's crazy obsession with personal development.

Luly knew the Alaska brand and once we went to her studio and got to know her and her obsession with the quality, the design and the fit, we fell in love.»

The authors said Trudeau's fiscal stimulus would add 0.5 % to economic growth this year and next, allowing the economy to reach its non-inflationary level of potential output faster than if former prime minister Stephen Harper's obsession with a balanced budget had remained Ottawa's priority.

If you are anything like me, then you've had a healthy obsession with body language for some time.

Despite a tech guy's obvious affinity for data and the information - centric nature of his company's product, Zambonini thinks most startups take their obsession with numbers too far.

He's a klutz, he has no friends, and he has an unhealthy obsession with the web - slinging hero.

Stemming from the nation's current obsession with kale are some important lessons for business owners about how to latch onto trends.

Poloz said little about Harper's obsession with a balanced budget, which in retrospect speaks volumes.

We spoke with nutritionists and eating disorder experts about the close correlation between restrictive diets that sometimes cut out entire food groups and orthorexia: a new classification of eating disorder that combines the fear of gaining weight with an unrelenting obsession with eating healthy foods.

Nara says your email is the only personal information it collects about its users (unless of course you consider your unhealthy obsession with, say, kale to be personal information).

To this day Waugh is disturbed by the cultish obsession with CEOs.

America's fascination with entrepreneurial productivity is endless — just look at the waves of books published each year to the ongoing obsession with finding ways to wake up earlier each day.

I've known dozens of software and hardware developers who've said that writing programs or designing chips is like an obsession with them.

Read the list, and Trump's obsession with Amazon makes sense — because it dovetails with his populist, protectionist and nostalgic view of the broader economy.

«There are exceptions to this obsession with and focus on the prize at all costs,» Spooner says.

The fever reached a particular pitch this year, driven by an overall obsession with all things squash.

Sony's obsession with making popular devices smaller helped perpetuate Japan's reputation for producing technology in miniature.

Its obsession with making its devices secure now shows extended vision, given recent high - profile security gaffes from industry leader Amazon, Apple and Sony.

However, David Burkus, associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University and author of the forthcoming book Under New Management, questions whether that obsession with secrecy might do a company culture more harm than good.

Just how bad has our collective obsession with our gadgets gotten?

Obama didn't have to bend much to tee up Hagel's confirmation, so why is he willing to feed the GOP obsession with Benghazi for the much-less controversial Brennan vote?

This obsession with metrics has led to initiatives like affirmative action hiring programs set up by some of the biggest names in tech, which, unfortunately, have failed to perform as hoped.

Jim Cramer may have an unhealthy obsession with this stock, but at this price, maybe you should too.

In 2016, the rise of technology and the world's obsession with the sharing economy have significantly changed the game for savvy marketers worldwide, and one of the side effects is the crucial need for marketers to embrace FinTech and use it to complete the overall customer experience.

Obsession with your product.

But, ironically, so too does our obsession with happiness.

But there is one industry — perhaps the one with the best chance of helping us fit into our skinny jeans — that has remained stubbornly out of step when it comes to our obsession with shaping up: restaurants.

There's little doubt that our own obsession with social media, blogging, personal branding, and user - generated content has done more to propagate the insidious myth that others have it better than you than anything else.

Then there was McDonald's obsession with process and efficiency, a cure that occasionally seemed worse than the disease.

People let a brand into their lives on the basis that there is some common ground between them, even if that common ground is simply an obsession with whiter gym socks.

Zenger says open salaries create an obsession with pay and cultivate «inflated self - perception» among employees, in addition to becoming a costly agent for change for employers.

Lowe's stock will pop nearly 20 percent as America's obsession with homes swells under Republican tax cuts, according to Bernstein.

What's you response to the cultural obsession with positivity — is it inspirational or just plain annoying?

Lowe's stock is set to pop 20 percent in the next year as America's obsession with homes swells under Republican tax cuts, according to one Wall Street bank.

Eastwood (no relation to Clint) had worked previously with Cruise on «Edge of Tomorrow,» so he was aware of Cruise's obsession with authenticity when it comes to stunt work.

The culprit behind this enormous shift is our increasingly selfish, self - centered, self - absorbed «Me» culture, courtesy of our growing obsession with personal branding, blogging, and social media.

From Martha Stewart's American Made event to Entrepreneur magazine's recent spread on the theme, the obsession with the Made in America label has reached a fever pitch.