Sentences with phrase «teams of people making»

In a big traditional house there are teams of people making decisions about your book and you get very little say — if any.

Not exact matches

Research out of Stanford has shown, for example, that adding newcomers to your team makes people uncomfortable (and more likely to complain) but actually improves productivity.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Team Penske, which made it the perfect time to talk to Roger about business, leadership, and what he believes has contributed the most to his long - term success: people.

«I believe the CEO of a small - to - medium business has three major duties: to make sure there is money in the bank; to get the right people in the right roles; and to guide the long - term vision for the company,» said Nick Gray, the founder and CEO of Museum Hack, a team - building company in New York City that counts major brands, including Facebook, among its customers.

Eleven entrepreneurs, all from founding teams including women or people of color, made their cases for innovations that would help bring more real - world experience into classrooms, help teachers track the progress of special - needs students, or help underserved people find jobs, among others.

And, because you can't always find or afford the perfect people when you're beginning, you take what you can get, and you try very hard to make the best of the situation and to do the best with the team and the resources you've assembled.

«We try to instill in people that we talk to that they're going to be important, they're going to be a part of a cohesive team, and the software that we helped create really does make a difference in the world.»

Some of the best companies pivot or excel because of great ideas from their people; why not allow your team members to make waves in your own company?

I get girls messaging me all the time saying how I inspire them and made them want to get into racing and drifting when they didn't think they would be accepted... What people don't realise, is that the girls have knowledge of the products and teams they are promotion — that's part of the job.

The team out of the University of Toronto that developed the quiz took a dead simple approach to the project — just ask a bunch of volunteers to describe exactly what makes a person charismatic, weed out duplicate answers, and then ask other volunteers to rate the suitability of these suggestions.

There's no shortage of advice about how to foster it, but really the shortest route to creativity lies in one simple ingredient: a diverse team made up of people who spring from widely varying backgrounds.

It truly is a wonderful group of people that make up the Pinot's Palette team!

Afterward, the teams, made up of seven to 10 people, lead their creations around the hotel ballroom to show off their handiwork.

Or as the research team puts it: «On the other hand, the bias may very well decrease the frequency of analytical reasoning by making it easy and commonplace for people to reach analytical response without engaging analytical processing.»

Well, to make a long story short while referencing a great episode from Seinfeld, we employed a special team of people to «retrieve» the reports for us, and «yadda yadda yadda,» we appeared at pretrial with these ultra-damaging reports in hand.

If you're a company aiming for true excellence, make sure you're clear about that with anyone thinking of joining the team, to make sure the person's expectations line up with yours and to avoid future conflict.

My company would not be what it is today without the people around it, and I find the most important element of my job is making sure my team has everything they need to do the best job they can — whether that's tech tools or just my support and trust.

I call myself «Chief Brand Anthropologist» of Turnstone, because I'm fascinated by the connections that can be made when taking the time to observe how people interact, their postures during tasks, the tone and volume of someone's voice when they enter a space and the level of mobility various teams require to be the most productive.

The team building activities will make people become more intuitively aware of others» capabilities.

I'm proud of the team environment and culture we've built: great people who make great decisions and make great things happen.

The Board and the Executive Leadership Team are confident that Dara is the best person to lead Uber into the future building world - class products, transforming cities, and adding value to the lives of drivers and riders around the world while continuously improving our culture and making Uber the best place to work.

Whether it's coaching a kids» sports team like the CEO of Insureon, playing a regular game of pickup soccer like celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, or extending a standing invitation to your friends for a Sunday evening supper like Huckabee, all the successful people profiled in the book plot out their weekends in advance (though not every minute; just a few «anchor events,» as Vanderkam dubs them) and make active use of the hours they have.

As a leader, it's no fun to say goodbye to someone that you once thought was the perfect fit, but sometimes, it is the only way to make sure that this person doesn't spread the negativity amongst the rest of the team.

By opening up the books and allowing others more transparency, more people on the team have a deeper understanding of how the company makes and spends money.

That gives people the opportunity to race at the highest level of the sport, and we don't want to lose that, but when you add new top teams... making sure that you have an equally attractive environment for pro-am independent teams is a challenge we're up to — but it's easier said than done.

Making a point of starting off a meeting with an impromptu dance party might seem ridiculous and awkward, but it's likely to get people laughing and feeling grateful to be part of your team.

I wanted to be a developer, make video games and websites.I always wanted to be a part of a team building things that people love.

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

The idea of a group of people pitching in to make something come to fruition is hardly novel, but the way the Kickstarter team leveraged the internet to pitch to millions of people simultaneously — as opposed to a coterie of traditional investors — certainly was.

I don't know anything about soccer, but it's very much a leadership book about how to build teams of people, how to play off personalities and understanding what makes people tick.

Instead of having managers and subordinates, Zappos will be made up of 400 «circles,» or teams of people who work together and take on various roles within those circles.

The company's six - person Board of Management is made up of entirely men, and of the 14 members of Audi USA's executive team, only two are women.

«Taking the extra step and making it public as well is extending that trust to a different set of people — to customers and blog readers and prospective team members.»

Zak's team measured the brain activity of people while they worked and discovered that trust is truly the secret sauce of what makes work exciting, productive, and innovative.

While an executive may have successfully led a team of self - motivated portfolio managers, the traits that made the person effective may not translate into a higher - level strategy - setting role.

We'll have to make sure, that the tube and overall system comply with regulations and won't impair people (visual and landscape issues if overground),» Luca Di Tizio, CEO of Swissloop, a team of students Switzerland, told CNBC via email.

One of Facebook's key business innovations is a «growth team» — today made up of hundreds of people — that designs tactics for various parts of the company, relying on a rigorous set of metrics to gauge success.

So that's where I spend a lot of my time — making sure we have the right people on the management team.

To avoid bad but vaguely plausible start - up ideas — what the Y Combinator team calls sitcom ideas, i.e., the kind of ideas TV writers would make up if a character on a show had a start - up — choose something that some people want a lot rather than something lots of people might sort of want a little.

Any person close to us will say we have had no shortage of miracles and most startups that really make it far have similar stories; years where founders did contract work, or full teams were let go.

There is no more foolish business leader than the person who looks at revenue and profit growth alone, at the expense of treating his team right and not making meaningful investments in his core products or services.

Our people are our greatest strength: the expertise, commitment, and integrity of our team members are what make Wells Fargo the great company that it is today.

If you notice these traits in a member of your team, you might make an extra effort to offer commendation, in an attempt to help build the person's confidence.

He anticipates that many employees will opt in to 2G Tuesdays — 2G Mondays just didn't sound nearly as catchy, he jokes — to get a better understanding of what the internet feels like for people in different parts of the world and to help report issues and make suggestions that his team might not have thought of.

«We offer a modern, tech - enabled approach to primary care that combines people - centered design, smart application of technology and a team of talented providers who have the time and tools necessary to make smarter decisions,» Lee told me.

This is because, even if you have a heated argument, as long as you keep in the back of your mind that the people you're arguing with do have the best in mind for the company and wider team, you'll always be able to make it to the end and remain friendly.

The best teams are made up of people who have faced obstacles and overcome them.

Quiznos» marketing team made the classic, fatal mistake of capturing people's attention without showing them any meaningful benefits.

Open - plan offices are supposed to make teams more productive, but «Plenty of research has shown that distractions cause people to take longer to complete a task,» according to the Association for Psychological Science.

If you have a team of five subject matter experts, you may need a team of two or three support people to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.