Sentences with phrase «people do things on»

I don't think some of the new people do things on purpose necessarily it just takes experience like anything else.

Even in the most routine jobs, you can let people do things on their own terms.

Not exact matches

«But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me.

Rather than dwell on the problems, however, the magazine launched a special «Economy of the Future» series that aims to spotlight case studies of people and companies who were doing things right, and how they could act as examples to others.

Some people actually try to do deliberative things whilst sleeping, like turning on the lights in a room.

All I was doing was other people's work all day long, and I never actually got to the things that I wanted to accomplish on that given day.»

The author of «Getting Things Done» says people focus on the wrong parts of his productivity system

Then you can focus on thinking about how to do things better, how to treat people better, how to make your business better.

And the best thing you can do for the people who love and depend on you is to do your best to make sure you can always be here for them.

File this one under simple but powerful ideas most people never think of: «Draw all the things you need to do on a big piece of paper, and find out which things depend on other things.

One of the easiest ways to increase your interaction on Twitter is to thank the people who do kind things for you.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

«Moving people up on the ladder of life satisfaction is not an easy thing to do,» Dunn said.

That doesn't mean there haven't been things on Facebook that we don't want to have happen on Facebook — and we're taking strong steps to correct that — but as an organizing tool for people who are trying to reach communities, it's huge.

People with humble backgrounds going on to do amazing things makes for a very compelling read any day.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

The San Francisco - based men's clothing and home goods seller initially launched in 2010 as an app to help people find things to do on the weekend.

It's so easy to get bogged down in email and other people's to - do lists that when you look up at the end of the day you realize you didn't make any progress on the things that are most important.

A lot of people come together to enjoy Guinness as they do on St. Patrick's Day and they do the same thing around the holidays.

Rather than relying solely on user - generated content, it's betting that slickly produced videos of pros using its cameras to do amazing things will inspire regular people to get out there even more.

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

The discovery of the network leads to some intriguing theories about why people often fail to come up with creative solutions when they're focusing on a problem but succeed later, when they're doing other things, like taking a shower or watching a movie.

That said, isn't a company that has expanded the ways and means in which people access all that information and data on the internet just as valuable as the company that organized it and did nifty things with it?

Also estimate how many people will try to do the same thing on your site at the same time and prepare accordingly, Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics, recently told the Washington Post.

«One of the first things he said to me when he came on campus at LinkedIn was, «Why do you need so many people to run a website?»

When faced with a problem personality, most of us do one of two things: We either confront the person head - on, leading to escalating hostility, or else avoid dealing with him or her and leave the problem to worsen.

«Lots of people set high goals, and, if things don't work out, they may be disappointed for a few hours or a day, but they move on,» Antony says.

I just don't buy the popular notion that a person's network on LinkedIn is some kind of sacred thing that needs to be protected.

«People are at their best when they're up against a deadline... Having too much time on your hands or doing things at a leisurely pace can be a mistake.

One of the paradoxical things about the online media business is that it's never been easier to measure what people are doing online — what they are clicking on, how long they spend, where they come from, and so on.

The smartest people I know care passionately about the few things in their life and in their business that really matter - the right things - and don't waste a minute on the rest.

Mills may be an original, but he's certainly not the only one to have developed a «particular set of skills» over the course of a career — lots of people on LinkedIn claim to have done the exact same thing.

One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

«That's the thing that people don't realize is today, as an entrepreneur, you can build a company that can impact a billion lives,» Diamandis said in the webcast that will be later featured on the Robbins» podcast.

This will keep you moving toward your financial goals and stop you from spending money on things you don't need, to impress people you don't like.

«Because he's already familiar with the politics, people and products [of CIBC] he doesn't need a long time to get up to speed on those things,» he says.

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The team behind that study quizzed thousands of people aged 10 - 90 on their ability to do things like remember lists of words, recognize faces, learn names, and do math.

«We have a vacation email tool, because the worst thing that people do is to go on vacation and try to stay busy, connected to work,» Huffington said.

Even if you don't find yourself in one of these positions, when you focus on doing things right and pursuing excellence — people will naturally be drawn to you and your example.

Self - awareness allows people to recognize what things they do best so they can then go hard on those aspects of their life.

«That's not necessarily a bad thing — it can signal trust, for example, and we rely on other people to remember things for us all the time, or don't bother to memorize them because we know our spouses (or iPhones) are really good at remembering.»

An exemplary team player is honored, respected and loved by all coworkers because they know they can rely on this person for support and to do the right thing in challenging times.

«I did the research on it and found a study saying that actually, there's some science behind this: People bond over the things they hate more strongly than over the things they love,» Alper said.

Do research on what keywords people are using to find things in your niche.

Great business relationships are created when people work together toward a common goal — and are able to count on one another to do their part, meet commitments, and get things done.

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

For many people, collaboration can feel like just one more thing on their growing to - do list.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»