Sentences with phrase «spend years at a time»

Like i Said Having the Opportunity to Spend Years at a time in Different Markets.

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Finally, visitors to Digital London will vote on the winner who will receive a collection of business - boosting goodies including, of course, exposure, as well as an exhibition stand at next year's Digital London event, access to Wazoku's idea - management software, production time in a video suite to record a promotional video and # 200 to spend at Moo.

Every hour you spend getting better at delegation will pay back 100 fold after two years when your time becomes incredibly scarce and precious.»

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

This is happening at a time when the Ontario government has committed to spending $ 160 billion over 12 years to improve Ontario infrastructure.

What we've spent a lot of time focusing on in the last year is making sure that we're able to deliver that technology in a way that is super-customer-friendly and that is supported at a level they feel like they need, and that's from both a sales and account coverage standpoint.

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

«I was spending all my time at the Crimson, like 70 hours a week and I didn't go to class for like a year,» he said.

Nearly everyone has been dealt a tough blow over the last couple years, and raising taxes at this time would kick consumer spending and the entrepreneurial spirit while they're already down.

«It is an indication of the changing dynamic in the world that a skill set, maybe we didn't spend a lot of time on in the last 15 years, is coming back,» Capt. Jim McCall, commander of the air wing on the USS Bush, told The Wall Street Journal at the time.

Trump's plan seeks to revamp how projects are approved and funded by reducing permitting time to two years and allocating $ 200 billion over 10 years — mostly as incentives to spur states, localities and the private sector to spend at least $ 1.3 trillion.

SnowEx — a NASA - led research campaign — will be spending the next five years studying how much snow is on the ground worldwide at any given time.

Amazon is spending $ 4.5 billion on video content this year, a staggering figure that puts it behind Netflix at $ 6 billion and ahead of Time Warner's at $ 2.5 billion.

While spending time with family, I'd stare into a small screen on my lap instead of engaging at a level I would have a mere few years back.

At Google, perks such as free lunches and the 20 % rule (where workers spend 20 % of their time on personal passion projects) have helped it recruit and retain enough top talent for the company to become a global force in just 10 years.

«We spent a lot of the time over the last couple of years learning from our retail operations out west,» said Mark Childs, chief marketing officer at Samsung Canada, in an interview with Marketing.

It's also worth considering one - time expenses, like the installation of a security system, that may inflate a given year's spending, says Aaron Boyd, director of governance research at Equilar.

Some 11 % of Wharton's graduating full - time MBA class of 2013 spent the summer between their first and second year either at an early - stage venture or working on their own.

By taking time to work out, spend time with your family and making sure you do not burn out, you will start to notice that sometimes you solve your toughest problems on that morning run, or while lying in bed with your 2 - year - old as she falls asleep at night.

With Halloween - related expenditures at an eye - popping $ 2.96 billion, according to the National Retail Federation, customers are definitely not afraid of spending at this time of year.

It can be easier for small businesses to track and report spending throughout the year, but at the end of the year, it's time to collect everything and look at the big picture.

By automating our inventory, the time we spend tracking assets has been cut in half, saving us $ 50,000 a year and at least $ 3,000 a month in lost revenue.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

On what has and hasn't changed at Yelp over the years: I still spend a ton of time with product and engineering, we do seem to get a lot more press attention these days, but perhaps most fortunately I haven't had to invest a lot of time with Wall Street (if you pardon the pun)... our CFO Rob Krolik handles most of that.

During his four - year stint at Donovan, Leisure, he represented the film industry in a tax dispute with the IRS and spent his time shuttling between Los Angeles and New York.

«Thus, if obese individuals were to replace time spent sitting at the computer with walking computer time by two to three hours / day, and if other components of energy balance were constant, a weight loss of 20 kg to 30 kg / year could occur.»

He spent some time working at a private foundation as former Vice-Presidential candidate Jack Kemp's speechwriter, and spent a «resume padding» year as a marketing consultant for his family's construction firm in Wisconsin before running for Congress himself.

In fact, last year 43 percent of working Americans said they spent at least some time working remotely.

Now as a midmarket account executive at Lever, a leading recruiting software company based in San Francisco, Megan Dunn has worked in inside sales for years — including time spent at both Oracle and Okta.

This is helpful for my team and me, as we, like most companies, spend time at the end of the year analyzing performance and looking ahead to changes in social media and content marketing trends to plan and budget for the new year.

He added: «I'm excited at the prospect of spending more time on TalkTalk, beginning with delivering another successful performance this year.»

The most memorable perk, though, was the time four years ago he spent a weekend at Camp David with President Barack Obama and some of the president's closest friends.

Yet the calendar creep continues: «The percentage of time an organization collectively spends in meetings has increased every year since 2008,» says Michael Mankins, a partner at Bain and co-author of Time, Talent, Enetime an organization collectively spends in meetings has increased every year since 2008,» says Michael Mankins, a partner at Bain and co-author of Time, Talent, EneTime, Talent, Energy.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

In the years before World War II, British economist John Maynard Keynes boldly predicted that by the time his grandchildren were grown, the average person would spend just 15 hours a week at work, thanks to technological innovations.

Looking further at those trends, the study reveals that men spent less time on social media than women (5 vs. 7 hours per week), decreasing their hours by 1 from the previous year.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

One - quarter of millennials FOMO spend several times each year, while 21 % of respondents admit to making these purchases at least once a month.

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In another push last year, Mr. Zuckerberg spent time at a conference in Beijing that is a standard on the China government relations tour.

Based on a Gallup survey of 15,000 American employees, 43 percent say they spent at least some time working remotely in the past year.

During the Internet bubble years, I spent some time as chief technology officer at a company called Electron Economy, which was basically a cloud - based order and warehouse management system.

As part of the changes to the budgetary process in 1994, four private sector forecasting organizations [2] develop detailed fiscal projections on a National Accounts basis, based on the average of the private sector economic forecasts and the tax and spending policies in place at the time of the last budget for the next five years.

As a result, as I got a little older, it was probably no surprise to anyone that I would spend the first 10 years or so of my professional career in field sales — we called it outside sales at the time.

If you've saved $ 500,000 at the time you retire, cutting your investment expenses by just half a percentage point could mean an extra $ 1,500 to spend every year in retirement.

They both work 10 - 11 months including post and pre school - year time spent at the school doing admin and organization work.

Mr. Bonforte's team, for example, has spent much of the last two years rebuilding Yahoo's email and instant - messaging services from the ground up, focusing on features such as better searches in email and the ability to unsend or delete an instant message at any time.

Previously, Mr. Welsh spent 8 years with Citicorp in its Venture Capital group and was President at the time of his departure.