Not exact matches
There may
be embellishment of the facts
in the getting - to - know you stage and both parties may
want to know what the past has
been like but they
are ultimately more
focused on what the future holds.
But she said that the number of hats she
was wearing
in each situation
was draining, and she
wanted to take a more
focused approach to entrepreneurship.
I'd rather
be more
focused in what I really
want to do, which
is entrepreneurship.»
From
being a better communicator, checking the phone less, to celebrating success, here
's what these leaders
want to
focus on
in 2014.
So
in the case of CVS, Meyer and his team first made sure that the company's decision to rebrand
was warranted: Leaders
wanted to push its image as a more health -
focused alternative to other drug stores.
«When companies do this, they
're saying «We
want to
focus on our core competencies, but we still need HR talent within our organization,
in close proximity to where our people
are.»»
He realized it
was time to bring a business person
in to
focus on growing the company and let him return to testing the product: «We
want to make sure the Nymi wristband
is very user - friendly so people would enjoy using it once it launches.»
A Business Owners Policy (or BOP) can roll all of these together
in a cost - effective manner, but if you
want to get customize your policy, here
is what you need to
focus on.
Whatever you choose, try to think less of what
's «cool»
in the media at present, and
focus on what the employee
wants out of their work day.
When I think back to when I
was doing bars and restaurants, rather than chasing some other idea of cool, I
focused on creating the kinds of places I
wanted to hang out
in.
The materials that explain the purpose of the Quiet Place talk about an expectation for quiet, an understanding that, if you
are in the space, you
want to
focus.
If it
's any consolation, it
's similar to the mistake that so many salespeople make, and that entrepreneurs looking for investment make:
focusing on what they
want, and how much effort they've put
in so far — versus what they can offer somebody else.
«We
want to shift away from that fear - based marketing and
focus on the fact that approximately 90 percent of cancers
are curable if caught
in stage I.»
For those who don't
want to do all the due diligence required to invest
in the space, there
is a handful of water -
focused exchange - traded funds to buy.
«If you
want to build a big Instagram following your number one
focus needs to
be getting as many big Instagram accounts to share your content, and tag your account
in the caption of the image as possible,» Chan says.
You can
focus on things that
are happening right here and now or on what you
want to create
in the future.
If you
want to cut out excuses and
focus on getting real results
in business and
in life, this
is a great podcast.
«We
are eliminating product sales goals because we
want to make certain our customers have full confidence that our retail bankers
are always
focused on the best interests of customers,» CEO John Stumpf said
in a statement about the change.
The company
wants you to
be able to
focus on your job to do it well, and does everything it can to accommodate all other aspects of your life
in order to make it easier on you to do that.
Maybe he or she
is ready to retire or perhaps just
wants to scale back on activities or take on a different role
in the business (say
focusing on engineering or sales) instead of running the entire company.
It
's a contrast
in focus: Microsoft
wants you to keep using the software you bought from it; Google just
wants you
in the cloud.
«If you
want to build something great, you should
focus on what the change
is that you
want to make
in the world.»
That coping mechanism could
be food, alcohol, binge - watching TV or any other thing that takes your
focus away from what you
want to accomplish
in your business.
But you will find ways to waste less time,
be more productive, and
focus more on what truly drives the results you
want in your business and personal life.
If you
want to make the sale, don't just
focus on your product or service — chances
are, your customers
are more interested
in you.
Shen's advice
focuses more on the fact that he expects managers (which, he assume will
be male)
are so incompetent that they can not see the potential
in female employees, or worse, they can see it but
are so sexist that they don't
want to promote an employee.
Start
being more
focused: If you
want to succeed, you have to stop
being distracted by everything around you and
be more
focused in what you
want to achieve, your distractions
are wasting your time, and keeping from
being focused.
In this space, you'll
want to
focus on the skills that
are most impressive to the employer you
're hoping to land a job with.
Lixin Cheng, CEO of ZTE Mobile Devices, told CNBC that the brand
is focused on innovation and
in hearing and delivering what consumers
want.
JAB will almost certainly
want to invest more
in the digital experience at a time when restaurant chains
are increasingly
focusing on this trend to book more orders from time - strapped shoppers.
Or that, if you
want to succeed
in today's ultra-competitive environment, your company needs to
be obsessively
focused on customer satisfaction.
«We know that one
in four people
in the U.S. have searched for or found a job using Facebook, so we
're focused on helping those who
want to work for the local businesses they love,» Facebook's Himel tells Inc..
She urges companies to create environments where employees
are «free to circulate
in a shifting kaleidoscope of interactions, and to disappear to their private workspaces when they
want to
focus or simply
be alone.»
«If we
were smart, not only would we
be focusing on encouraging the best technologists
in school to go down this path — with programs designed and incentivized — we would
be fighting to become the place where the brainpower of the world
wants to come to live.
Is there an employee that has a hard time
focusing in an open workspace and
wants a day to work
in solitude?
Michel Theriault
is an author, speaker, and consultant
focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers
in businesses of all sizes who
want to get results, get attention, and get ahead.
In bringing on a partner, I
wanted to find someone who would do the following: find the deals I
was too busy to pursue, close deals better than I could, keep me
focused on the core business and help me make better business decisions.
«This
is partly a consequence of Under Armour
wanting to «own» many different segments of the sports performance category, but
in a softer demand environment where consumers
are more selective about what they buy, such a lack of
focus is harmful,» Riva wrote Tuesday.
Once we identified that Mann Deshi — which
focuses on female entrepreneurship
in India —
was the foundation we
wanted partner with, we reached out to the founder, Chetna Sinha, but she
was, understandably, wary of us.
Legere continued to tweak his rivals on Twitter, but if there
's a lesson
in the CEO
's hijinks, it may
be a simple one:
Focusing on what customers
want tends to attract more customers.
Let other people indulge their egos, but stay
focused on the big picture of what you
want to have happen and
be willing to give all of the credit away
in order to create the outcome you desire.
Focus on who you
want to
be in response to these challenges.
«We
're always looking to scale, but the bootstrapped founder
in me still pauses and says: «at a reasonable pace,» because you
want to
focus on your culture,» he says.
Kim
is the general partner of Forerunner Ventures, a venture capital firm
focused on early - stage investments
in companies that
want to take the world of retail and ecommerce by storm.
And with the overall PC industry shrinking, and Apple
's mobile -
focused iOS rising
in importance, it
's not surprising that software developers
want to prioritize the iPhone and iPad.
Focus on what
's «new» and exciting about your product — while trying to remind your existing customers of why they
wanted to buy from you
in the first place.
«When I
'm in a client meeting or giving a speech, I
want the client or audience to
be able to
focus on what I
'm saying, not what I
'm wearing.
That
's why, even
in business - and investment -
focused decisions, you'll
want to use a bit of intuition to guide your final call.
This
is not the place to go into detail, but I do
want you to know that the IMF — even more than
in the past —
is focused on providing an effective forum for global economic and financial cooperation.
I read all the related articles months ago deciding whether it
was something that could work for me, and wasn't convinced — possibly because it seemed more US
focused particularly on healthcare benefits (which
is not covered by employers here
in Oz), but also just couldn't envisage any scenario where my firm would
want to let me go (perhaps I think I
'm more valuable than I really
am??)