Sentences with phrase «working a guy in»

The Cowboys know that it takes WR's a bit to get going, so they want to stay competitive this year while working a guy in to get him ready next year.

Dwayne Johnson is one of the hardest working guys in Hollywood, but that work ethic doesn't just come from nowhere.

Not exact matches

Harris remembers meeting a «James Dean - type guy in a leather jacket» who barely gave him the time of day, while Burtka remembers being friendly and vaguely familiar with Harris's work, they later told Out magazine.

Find out why Guy Kawasaki calls the books «A transformational work in the history of customer service.»

«I would get a job as a bartender at night and a sales job during the day, and I would start working,» Cuban said in conversation with Guy Raz, the host of NPR's How I Built This podcast.

Entrepreneurs such as Daymond John, who many know as the guy on Shark Tank, worked for years in seeming obscurity.

«Working with Clarence was the toughest challenge in my career,» says Scott, «as the more you gave of yourself, the more was expected of you — seven days per week and always driven by a man whose own anger and frustration with what had happened to his people by «white guys» made him determined and impatient to advance his own nation's well - being.»

That strategy worked so well that Franken's 2014 Republican opponent tried to win votes by casting Franken as a guy who was «basically invisible» in Washington.

They don't want to risk their grade in the class by dividing the work equally and hoping that Timmy (the guy who is absent from class two days a week on average and sleeps through class on the other three days) does his part well, if he remembers to do it at all.

«We take the work out of it by curating the best of the best in streetwear and contemporary fashion for the urban - dwelling guy,» he says, noting that more than 60 percent of purchases are from repeat customers.

«There are guys that will be recalled but for now, between the programs that have been slowed down and the CSeries, there is a period where there will be a little less work,» Chartrand said in an interview.

Long gone are the days where «Wendy Stick with What Works» and «Ira the Idea Guy» have to battle it out in a marketing meeting to decide on an upcoming campaign.

Novogratz, who worked at Goldman Sachs during the 1990s, told reporters at The New Yorker that the firm «hired Goldman's best guy in blockchain,» in an April issue.

«I traditionally am in the «give the guy a chance» group,» David Turner, who works in construction, told the group.

Whether it's connecting with a co-worker over the phone, finding a volunteer opportunity during lunch or after work, or just going to the local store and chatting up the guy in aisle 6 rearranging the canned goods, talk to someone so you don't become a hermit.

If you're intrigued by the idea of working on applications that millions of people could potentially use, then you'll want to take a look at the growing group of software engineers who are researching, designing, evaluating, integrating and maintaining software applications, technical environments, operating systems (you can thank these guys for all those Apple iOS updates), embedded software, information warehouses and telecommunications software in both the private and public sectors.

«There are guys up there with boots in the mud doing real work,» he says, «but being the communication technology that's made this possible is pretty satisfying for the team.»

In that respect, being introverted can be in itself a part of your brand, a sort of proof of diligence - you're not a braggart or a self - promoter or a smooth talker; you're a guy who wants to do his work and get the job donIn that respect, being introverted can be in itself a part of your brand, a sort of proof of diligence - you're not a braggart or a self - promoter or a smooth talker; you're a guy who wants to do his work and get the job donin itself a part of your brand, a sort of proof of diligence - you're not a braggart or a self - promoter or a smooth talker; you're a guy who wants to do his work and get the job done.

I know if you're a young guy trying to start up a business selling dress clothes to older men, the idea of hanging out at some overpriced, elite club during the week after work might not sound like the most fun you've ever had, but in the long run this type of extracurricular activity might be worth the large bar tab and cigar scent on everything you own.

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

My formal training is law, MBA, but I've been working in the technology industry for 20 years now, so I've taught myself technology and certainly surround myself with guys who are very knowledgeable about the technology industry.

We're supposed to work ourselves up into a state of moral panic because a bunch of middle - aged American white guys who have long enjoyed every advantage in the world have a case of the sads?

«We've got the guys out there kicking butt right now,» says Al Johnson of his eight - member work team at Davidson Plyforms, a $ 20 - million plywood manufacturer in Grand Rapids.

He reminded me a lot of Bill Wellman and some of those guys who is one of the only named directors I'd ever worked for and I'd done a small part for him in a picture and they were all kind of rough and tumble guys.

Homogenous work environments create what tech veteran Mitch Kapor — the guy who built Lotus 1 -2-3, among other things — calls «mirror - tocracies,» in which the people who get ahead are those who best exemplify the status quo.

When the pressure is on to fill a position, it's easier to use the clichéd «beer test» — as in, «would I have a beer with this guy» — as a decision - making tool than it is to undergo the complicated and time - consuming work of a more nuanced assessment.

As one American - born Russian venture capitalist told Fortune: «Guys in their 40s are still working on their first fortunes, and the guys in their 60s running the big traditional industries don't have a taste for this young, risky, entrepreneurial stuff.&raGuys in their 40s are still working on their first fortunes, and the guys in their 60s running the big traditional industries don't have a taste for this young, risky, entrepreneurial stuff.&raguys in their 60s running the big traditional industries don't have a taste for this young, risky, entrepreneurial stuff.»

A lot of the guys in the Ambassador program work with Hailo and are enthusiasts and they let us wrap their cars as an advertisement.

When I was first coming up in the 50s they were all the great directors, Billy Wilder was working and John Ford and Hawks and all these guys were... That I admired were... And Capra.

«And I always found him in one - on - one sessions to be a listener and a guy that wanted to do good work.»

«It's obviously still very early days, but there's tremendous amount of work going on behind the scenes, setting the stage and we're making progress putting in place a new team and structure as well as cascading that structure and accountability down the whole organization,» chief executive Guy Laurence said in a conference call with analysts Thursday.

08:40 Price: And I was living in a fish bowl because there were always people working for me in my house and the UPS guy was in my house and then customers were in my house.

Campbell is the guy who helped Eric Schmidt take on the role of CEO and worked closely with the Google founders; he is referred to with deference in the Valley as «the coach.»

Our target audience is moms with kids, and I just walked into a room of guys with ties,»» said Warren Kornblum, who worked as chief marketing officer in the late 1990s and mid-2000s.

There's a guy in my office I've worked with for years, but I still don't know his name.

You don't want to be the guy or gal playing «left out» regarding the company softball team but you do want to be included in post work «meetings» at the downtown pub.

You know the type of person I mean — that guy or gal who manages to run a successful business, work on a side project or two, keep in shape, be available to friends and family, and even cook an amazing three - course dinner now and again.

In a speech he made a day after Jobs's death, former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki (who claims to have survived working for Jobs twice), also spoke about Jobs's remarkable ability to evoke greatness from others.

«I was working in L.A. and was just being a bum with the guys who were on «The Hills» and a couple of others who knew them,» Taylor said.

«You need to say that there are ways in which you're going to be different, and acknowledge that you'll have to find new ways of working together,» says Guy Beaudin, a senior partner at management consulting firm RHR International.

On the worst days of the year, he's in the field beside his guys — and it motivates them all to work that much harder.

In «Detective Pikachu,» you play as Tim — a guy who gets to work with a bizarro - world, grizzled Pikachu who happens to be a gritty detective.

Week 2: marketing: work out how to get in touch with all the people like the guy who built my house who «don't do email» and pitch them the deal that if they can use the web they can do everything they need with email.

Having the «smartest guys in the room» isn't much good if they can't work with others effectively.

Is this guy sitting in his seat working and learning as best he can, or is he daydreaming about playing Madden, and leaving at 5:00 pm?

Then, in theory, alliance members can identify bad guys much faster and work together to deter them, proactively through intelligence sharing, and reactively through joint investigations.

His preference for Summers comes from two years of working with the guy every single day and two more years in which they were routinely in touch.

It's interesting to note that a lot of the people criticizing Mr. Zuckerberg are guys who wear a suit every day and work in intensely competitive environments.

Starbucks, Five Guys, HMSHost and other employers at the D.C. Opportunity Fair are committed to hiring, empowering teens, young adults who are not in school or working.

These guys might find that their hedges don't work in the way that they planned or, at worst, give the portfolio return characteristics that mimic equity funds and other asset classes.