Sentences with phrase «point of making the changes»

But it wasn't just a matter of size of staff — it was changing the thinking that got the staff to the point of making the changes.

Not exact matches

In other words, you value friendliness and empathy, even when you're just getting your oil changed... Above all else, always be nice, and make an effort to understand and empathize with your buyers» and sellers» points of view.»

Shum and Colaco point out that any reclassification of risk would be heavily scrutinized by Canadian regulators, in order to make sure that changes aren't self - serving on the part of policy providers and in fact benefit consumers.

You can start off small by making just a few changes to an integral part of your business — one you probably don't give much thought to anyway — your Point of Sale (POS) system.

His question to them: «If I'm completely stupid in a world that is changing beyond recognition, in ways that we can not imagine at this point in time, and we do not take account of it in our decision - making, what is the likelihood that I will end up with value at risk?»

Because Slack hasn't yet reached the point where it has tens of thousands of workers on its books, «[i] t is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» CEO Stewart Butterfield and HR chief Anne Toth write in a blog post disclosing the numbers.

We've completely transitioned our business model to the point now where 97 % of our sales are direct online, and we've been seeing tremendous growth of the company since we made that change.

The point is that when you encounter a crisis, it primes your organization to go through major changes it might not otherwise be capable of making.

«Here's some big, dumb industry that hasn't changed for 30 years and could be made a hell of a lot better,» he points out.

Capital raise after capital raise obviously signals an intense cash burn rate, but if Tesla is going to change the world and push electric cars to a point where they constitute more than 1 % of global auto sales, chilling out on the spending and letting the balance sheet take a breather doesn't make much sense.

Thankfully, Dr. Brinke's research points to objective, well - documented physiological and behavioral changes — or «tells» — that we can use to make accurate assessments of other people's truthfulness.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

Yet at some point something changes: the founder gets bored, the company starts making money in a pivot that wasn't part of the original vision or even funds run low but not low enough to justify shutting the doors - especially when there's revenue involved.

A Forbes piece recently highlighted the next five years of user experience trends, and made key points about how users are being changed by the internet of things, voice and bots.

The point is to make small, everyday changes that you can sustain over a long period of time.

This has always been true in business, but the point is even more relevant now in the fast - paced world of digital marketing, where new technologies and algorithm changes can make or break your success one quarter to the next.

«One of the keys to selling tax reform is the president making the point that tax reform will unrig this economy by stripping out the special - interest deductions and carve - outs that riddle this code,» said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers that is spending heavily to push changes to the tax code.

Which all goes back to my point — since companies change in a lot of unpredictable ways, it makes more sense for passive income to just ride the market by investing in a Total Domestic Stock Market, Total Bond Market, and Total International index funds, with allocations that depend on your goals and time horizon.

Loeb recently told Third Point fund investors that shares of the oil and gas company could be 60 percent higher, and he outlined changes it could make to add value, such as spinning off its retail business or selling its Canadian natural gas assets.

In a nutshell, Check Point has been making substantial changes to its sales organization and strategy in the U.S. «The changes we have implemented in the field didn't bear fruits yet and as noted before it will take a few quarters to ramp up the level of productivity and results as we expect,» Payne said in the conference call this week.

And you know, look, I had read a ton of books at that point but they were so... you read «Market Wizards» by Schwager, and then you read Peter Lynch, and then you read Jack Bogle, you've got three completely different... So I read Nick Murray, was the book that made... probably changed more about my investment philosophy than anything else.

But let's separate that for a second from the point I'm making, which is this hopefully not temporary, but maybe temporary, move to high deductible plans is driving change in the marketplace that is resulting in better care for consumers, from my point of view.

Older versions of the plane, the A through D models, have problems with cabin pressure whereas the newer Super Hornet and Growler issues «would appear to point to the onboard oxygen generating» system to which the Navy» has already made changes.

As a former Third Point employee told journalist Nicholas Stein in 2007, Loeb «believes that if you embarrass a CEO in front of his friends at the club, make him feel like people are talking about him, you can exert change on his company.»

Point - of - Sale (POS) processing technology is changing so fast that systems and hardware often can not keep pace with the latest software developments or compliance requirements, making it absolutely critical that merchants keep their POS terminals, processing equipment and corresponding software up - to - date.

Changes of tenths of a percentage point — as well as revisions to historical data — make a big difference.

This is obviously a large simplification, but we are merely trying to make the point that changes in fears over the PIIGS and the subsequent «Eurozone debt crisis premium» is more like changing the intercept of the gold bull market trend than the gradient.

This is the mistake that 99 % of new investors make, and if you reach a point in your life where you think solely in terms of business performance (and not stock price changes), the world is yours.

Whenever you change the web address of a page, apply a 301 redirect to make the old address point to the new one.

Protest is good way of making a point, but making a change will require both sides finding common ground

A judge still has to determine whether to accept the terms of the settlement, but an Uber spokesperson pointed out that the company has made a number of changes to the way it handles pay, and emphasized diversity efforts made by the company that address many of the stipulations in the settlement.

While I correctly anticipated the credit crisis (see Critical Point for a reminder), the unwise response of policymakers — defend the bondholders, avoid debt restructuring, change accounting rules, extend, and pretend — virtually ensured years of economic headwinds, and led me to insist on making our approach robust to even Depression - era outcomes.

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«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

You however don't see your own hypocrisy in greater depth when you say that the bible was deliberately written to be sacred and holy, without ANY sourcing and you take the word of people who lived a really long time ago who also can not provide you with anything more than «eye - witness accounts» which have undoubtedly been changed, tweaked or even just falsly made up in order to cement their point.

Not to make too fine a point of it, but morality did not change.

Mitt Romney Flip Flops because he makes a decision that usually makes sense... Then he gets a call from the «Prophets» of the LDS church and changes it with no question... is that who you want in office... look at the issues he flipped on... every one of them was changed to an LDS point of view.

If you make good points, I may even comment, or notify my blog readers that I am changing my views because of your compelling Scriptural and theological arguments.

For instance, when in the course of discussion it is clear that the one receiving such admonishment actually disagrees with the point being made, then continued dogging attempts to force the other party to change does indeed become «manipulative coercion».

I agree with Gary's point: «when in the course of discussion it is clear that the one receiving such admonishment actually disagrees with the point being made, then continued dogging attempts to force the other party to change does indeed become «manipulative coercion.»»

The general doctrine of God developed in Process and Reality was implicit in Religion in the Making, but at two points substantive changes have occurred.

He argues that this theory allows one to make all the points that can be made about theological changes through history by using Robinson s notion of «trajectories,» but without its postulation of some «essence» of meaning that perdures through the change.

One of the points I am trying to make is that the Genesis audience perspective is probably one of constant change and violence and God, behind all of that, is both responsible for the suffering and trying to develop a people that can manage to survive it.

Actually global heating (climate change) will make the point of whether these fantasy gods are whatever stupid people believe them to be a moot point in a few years as humans and all living things do a slow roast as temperatures climb higher and remain there for hundreds of years....

But when it's making a point that seems to change the point of the biblical imagery, yeah, then it becomes a problem.

A very sad story with a tremendous amount of pain and anguish turned positive... doesn't change the fact that this is simply adults playing make believe to the point that wishes become full on beliefs

None of the laws of matter or physics or gravity or decay or thermodynamics or electro - magnetism can explain what made that point change from a stable condition.

Ch 2 is a retelling of the story to make a specific point about man's dominance over women, but it has to change the order of things from Ch 1 in order to do that.

The difference is Mr. I will never win Pulitzer... is that Islamic TERRORISTS come teams of 4 on 4 different planes sent from mosques and other places of Islam to kill jews... He is but one man... Who made his point... It was people like you that he was trying to change..