Sentences with phrase «work at the turn»

In his book, The Rise of Creative Class, Richard Florida says that fewer than 10 percent of Americans were doing creative work at the turn of the 20th century.

The Oneidas, the region's single - largest employer with 4,500 people working at its Turning Stone Resort Casino and related properties, had unusually harsh words for Tenney after she renewed an old feud Thursday with the nation.

Rather than applaud Eva Moskowitz's plans to expand to 100 schools citywide, they work at every turn to slow her down.

By working at every turn to improve the process and make it more efficient, we've made it possible to get coverage in just minutes, while still asking the important questions and getting you the right policy.

While Bruguera's most recent work often uses the strategies of social movements and education platforms to address topical matters, this exhibition looks back to Untitled (Havana, 2000) as a crucial work at the turn of the millennium that symbolizes an important shift in Bruguera's oeuvre, as she moved from working primarily with her own body to considering active audience engagement.

He's been described as a «losers» loser» who undercuts his own work at every turn, and the collection of paintings on view at INVISIBLE - EXPORTS's booth are typical of his recent output: monochrome works with scrawled text that reads like the jottings of a depressed, self - aware, and deviously funny teenager (sample text: «shit or / get off the pot / me loves me / me loves me / not»).

After a brief return to work at the turn of the century, he took his own life in 2003, ending a decades - long battle with depression and substance abuse.

Samuel Langley, working at the turn of the twentieth century, did not do as well.

By working at every turn to improve the process and make it more efficient, we've made it possible to get coverage in just minutes, while still asking the important questions and getting you the right policy.

Not exact matches

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

Having worked for a major search engine and pioneering pay for performance advertising networks, she is an expert at turning her clients» websites into consistent revenue streams, using a variety of digital channels.

Blood work, a resting EKG and a respiration test were negative, but a stress test and an angiogram turned up a big problem: four blocked arteries, one of them at 100 percent — not what Curin expected at his age.

And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

Turns out nobody wants to be around a guy that takes himself too seriously — at work or at home.

It's inequitable and it's a concern,» says Elise Torres, staff attorney at TURN, The Utility Reform Network, an advocacy group that works to protect low - income homeowners from high electricity bills.»

Those who become accustomed to spending hours at the office may find it difficult to turn off their work - mode switch and get used to a more laid - back or relaxing lifestyle.

My GetMeATeam is hard at work on the 4 o'clock assignment, which means it's time to turn to the remaining area of my life that I haven't managed yet today: dating.

While some may learn to turn the job they have into one they love, the stark reality is that many won't have any work at all.

Turn off your phone, check email at designated times each day, and when you get those requests from people who don't seem to get that you're really working (especially relevant if you work from home), let them know that your boss is benevolent but not a pushover.

After getting to know Ehret's work, Jobs became something of a nutritional extremist, subsisting on carrots for weeks at a time — to the point that his skin reportedly started turning orange.

Individuals may turn to lawsuit loans after, say, an accident at a store or an injury at work.

Those suffering from this subtype «agreed with statements like, «When things at work don't turn out as well as they should, I stop trying.»

Once you establish what the higher purpose is, it's easy to enjoy working at the business — so much so that it turns into a success.

In the intervening 17 hours, a compounding series of misfortunes — a broken de-icing machine, frozen engines and brakes, a lack of gates at the terminal, a plane that idled so long it had to refuel, a crew that worked so long it needed to be replaced — turned the flight into an almanac of the indignities of modern air travel.

«If it was just turned on for 5,000 people all at once with no instruction, it just wouldn't work,» he says.

Johnston, welcoming MPs back to work after a month - long delay, opened the speech by noting that «the eyes and ears of Canadians turn toward this Parliament, in trust that those who stand here in their place will relentlessly advance and uphold the ideals that are inclusive, honourable, selfless, smart and caring at every turn without fail.»

Your friends will be leaving the office, turning work mode off at 5 pm and heading to happy hour, while you are grinding away doing whatever it takes to make it.

A group of former wrestlers - turned financial gurus who have worked at some of America's top financial firms have pooled their own money with charitable donors» to grant larger cash prizes to wrestlers who win Olympic medals, The New York Times reports.

Phases are one thing, but justifying workaholism with whatever project you're working on at the time can turn into a major problem.

It's best to keep anything emotional out of work emails, says Ginger Robitaille, PHR, HR Generalist at Turning the Corner.

«From the welcome tot at the door when you arrive to the cuddly hottie placed in your bed during turn - down service, from remembering your favourite drink to knowing how you like your eggs cooked in the morning, the staff at Skibo work to make every stay feel as special as it was your first visit,» Carnegie says.

Try any or all of these ideas the next time you find yourself bored at work, and turn your boredom into a higher salary.

Besides what experts call good «sleep hygiene» -; not drinking caffeine at night, turning off the TV before bed, sticking to a sleep schedule -; the key may be rethinking your schedule to work shorter, smarter hours and actually leave the office closer to on time (after all, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg manages it).

One - third will be at their desks, but they'll be streaming the game or competition instead of working, so don't be surprised if they take some extra time replying to your email or turn up late for a meeting.

Assuming that you are smart and willing to work hard but aren't at the top of the world's richest, you may have a great idea, but you don't know how to turn that into a business that keeps growing at over 100 % a year.

The bottom line: «What Gibson and Shrader found was that sleep has a definite effect on productivity, which in turn might affect worker wages (the more productive you are at work, the more likely you either score a raise or get compensated with tips).»

But a review of past deals suggests Stephenson has his work cut out for himself, and there could be parallels to the disastrous failed AOL acquisition of Time Warner at the turn of the century.

A self - described «corporate refugee turned entrepreneur,» Bryan Janeczko worked at Morgan Stanley before founding his own venture, an online prepared food vendor called NuKitchen.

E-mails dug up by investigators in the Barclays scandal, he argued, showed a «cowboy mentality at work,» one «driven by short - term profits on trades that were in turn likely influenced by the bonus and compensation schemes in place.»

«It's very possible to form genuine friendships with people at work which in turn can increase productivity within teams.

He not only turned it around, but also made employees proud to work at Citigroup, something lacking before thanks to multiple, poorly executed mergers.

And that, in turn, could work well for content producers — but only if the installed base grows at a decent pace.

«I spent over a decade of my life working at the issue [of prison reform], including half a decade at the NAACP, and yet here you have a former inmate turned entrepreneur who's been able to bring relief to almost a quarter of federal inmates in just a couple of years,» Jealous says.

A study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch bears this out: They found that students who turned in work at regular intervals during the semester got higher grades than those who chose to turn in all their work on the last possible day.

It turns out creativity and innovation are just like everything else: if you want to be good at them, you'll have to put in the work.

Content that was once shackled to existing distribution platforms like TV and newspapers has been set free to roam the Internet at will, and that in turn has transferred the power from existing media companies (that controlled those platforms) to anyone who understands how content works in this new landscape.

Selina Lo, who worked with Orr at HP and Alteon, says she used to marvel at his ability to work straight through international flights; he would turn to his expense reports if he ran out of other projects in midair.

Faced with stagnant employment and wages, the sentiment of consumers, many of whom also work at small companies, will turn negative.

«The reason I said I didn't like Samsung is because throughout my entire life, because of how my parents raised me, I have to work with the number one, I can't work with anyone but Jay Z because he's number one, I can't be with any girl but Kim because that's the girl that I look at her pictures the most and get turned on by.

Steib has turned his experience — including but not limited to the effect of stress at work — into a blog called The Career Manifesto, as well as into a workshop he hosts at XO Group, which includes a Personal Development Program and Lunch & Learn series, where he shares tips and advice on organization, management, productivity, and any other issues employees would like to explore.