It doesn't take more than a second between
the time you look up a product on one site and find it as an ad on your social feeds.
A McKinsey study found that employees spend nearly 20 percent of
their time looking for information or tracking down colleagues to help with specific tasks.
If you are in the market looking for a new piece of property, you'd have to look for the best place for real estate deals, spend
time looking for the property, finalize the deeds, engage yourself into a litany of legalese, dig your head into paperwork, and all of this is just the beginning.
That doesn't mean keep looking forever, but we should spend
some time looking to see if there is a simpler solution available.
Workers are trained not to spend too much
time looking down at their tablet during these interactions.
In me, because he expected me to get over it but I saw the betrayal
every time I looked at him.
«They obviously have a good internal search feature,» says co-founder Jay Srinivasan, «but we still spent so much
time looking for information, so much
time looking for services.
Wasting
your time looking for ways to improve yourself will only accomplish one thing: keeping you occupied with silly details while real opportunities pass you by.
Cans went from white to silver to blue,
each time looking less distinctive.
According to a longitudinal study, those with a brain unaffected by Alzheimer's spend more
time looking at pictures they haven't seen before whereas all of those who spent an equal amount of
time looking at both images developed the disease.
Last
time I looked, that wasn't called «work»; it was called «volunteering» (or, for college students, «interning»).
Ron Lieber of the New York
Times looks at books advising upwardly mobile parents.
David Mandell, CEO of Boulder, Colo. - based PivotDesk, says he sees too many people spend too much
time looking for space and haggling with landlords.
My company receives inquiries from startups all
the time looking for advice.
Already, companies that use Slack have employees that spend about 20 percent of
their time looking for information or looking for someone who has the information they need.
I still get nervous, I still feel uncomfortable and there are
times I look at the door and think about making a run for it.
Spend
time looking at each of these trends and identify potential future problems related to wearable technology and alternate payment systems.
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Any time you look at any kind of real life piece of text or utterance that one human wrote or said to another human, it's filled with analogies, modal logic, belief, expectation, fear, nested modals, lots of variables and quantifiers,» Lenat said.
«In a business that's moving so quickly,» he explained, «if you spend
your time looking backwards, you're just going to kill yourself.»
But as you grow older, and spend more ever - more
time looking backwards rather than forwards, having a music collection you can treasure and revisit will be more important than ever.
«I've been spending a lot of
time looking at health care, and it's extremely dangerous.
«Boards spend an extraordinary amount of
time looking in the rear - view mirror,» says Mark Wiseman, CEO of the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and a vocal critic of director myopia.
«Boards need to spend a bigger proportion of
time looking forward to where global forces are moving their markets,» says Wiseman.
Ambitious individuals in particular spend
time looking for every possible competitive advantage, often only to find out that the secrets to productivity are simpler than they thought.
My writing and personal brand online is how I have been asked to speak at events, asked to hold advisory positions for companies, asked to consult, asked to do all the things I would love to do — and would otherwise have to spend
time looking for.
Chesky, who recently talked to Fortune about his leadership strategy, agrees, saying «It's very important that I spend
my time looking over the horizon... A lot of the things I've been doing, maybe Belinda is a lot better at them than I am.»
A recent story in The New York
Times looks into a more recent study by Hall, which appears to confirm his preliminary findings.
Although certain sites favor recency over permanence, the relative distribution of potential viewers of your content over
time looks essentially similar.
The bottom line on Angels, spend
your time looking for solid Relationship Investors or Idea Investors, they are the ones that will get you over the hump.
Instead of spending so much
time looking at «the numbers,» retrain your brain to question what the data is telling you.
Don't waste
time looking for them.
Spend a good deal of
time looking back at your history and personal values in determining why you're even in the business you're in.
Don't waste
your time looking for money in all the wrong places.
Unfortunately, too many people spend their precious
time looking for the secret formula out there that will help them achieve their deepest desires and biggest dreams that will take minimal effort on their behalf.
It's an easy way to not waste
time looking for what you love and get straight to ordering it.
But, if you're the one doing the hiring, stop and realize your own biases and maybe vow to spend a bit more
time looking at résumés.
But
every time it looked as if Justice was cruising, Glickman found a way to put the company in danger again.
Every time we look, the prices are higher than the last time we looked.
The most famous female media mogul of
our time looked to anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela as a role model.
We don't have to spend as much
time looking for candidates now, so the cost for recruiters doesn't seem justified.»
To put it bluntly, «Call of Duty» multiplayer now has so many useless upgrade systems that you spend way too much
time looking at menus rather than playing the game.
Every time I look at a stock after it reports earnings, I'm mesmerized about how horrendously it invariably acts.
So, you might ask why I would be writing on a blog for the first
time looking for funding.
The Times looked at two sorts of historical data — the closing prices of the S. & P. 500 - stock index as well as the highest and lowest points the index reached during each trading day.
Once I determine the traffic channel (s) they are doing well in, I will then take a deeper dive into those channels (using other tools on this list), so I won't waste
my time looking at every part of every competitor.
Despite a 33 pct premium, the price is best described as bland, and
the timing looks a bit opportunistic.
With each offer, we found ourselves spending
time looking at how we could justify spending a huge amount of money rather than what would work best for our business.
The second
time we looked at this, we saw the Findus twist bring new energy to the story and as the chart shows, Tesco's Buzz score — which tracks whether consumers have heard something positive or negative about a brand — went further down and is only showing the very first signs of recovery in the last week.
It's important to spend
some time looking at what a lender will offer you versus what you already have.
I generally don't spend much
time looking for new single stock investments.