Sentences with phrase «year spent time»

Last year I spent some time defining my personal style and streamlining my seasonal (3 month) wardrobe into a collection of 33 pieces, accessories and outerwear.

«For four years I spent time with families in the 27th (district) whose children were suffering from drug addiction and behavioral issues, said Seamans.

It greatly hinders their ability to reproduce by cell division, and so chemists have for years spent time making molecules that all contain the beta - lactam structural motif, but differ in the surrounding molecular «shrubbery.»

Summer and fall is my favorite time of year spend time outdoors, sightsee, the beach.

For the following 10 years he spent time between his country home in Connecticut and New York.

I am an independent contractor with Re / Max and since for a number of years I spent my time recruiting and hiring agents, and reviewing the contract with each and every one, I do have a good handle on its Terms and Conditions.

Not exact matches

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

Alan Bishop has spent 40 years building insurance broker EBM into a national player and worked through many business cycles over that time, but arguably none as tough as the current conditions in Western Australia.

Capital spending ballooned to $ 7.3 billion from $ 2.5 billion a year earlier, although that included the one - time, $ 2.4 billion purchase of the Chelsea Market building in New York City.

Finally, visitors to Digital London will vote on the winner who will receive a collection of business - boosting goodies including, of course, exposure, as well as an exhibition stand at next year's Digital London event, access to Wazoku's idea - management software, production time in a video suite to record a promotional video and # 200 to spend at Moo.

I believe in the years to come, how we choose to spend our time and what we decide to work on is going to make us less mechanical, and more human.

Earlier this year, a survey suggested almost one in four Canadians were spending more time watching online video over the course of a day than time on the couch in front of their TV.

Every hour you spend getting better at delegation will pay back 100 fold after two years when your time becomes incredibly scarce and precious.»

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

It was the first time in 13 years that anybody other than my family had actually spent 30 minutes thinking about my well being.

Dr, Klaus claimed that if you constantly applied this idea - of only doing your most valuable work and then spending time creating more of your most valuable work - you could double your income in a few years.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Especially if they've spent the last four or however long years studying, it's a nice signifier that they can begin to enjoy their free time, their adulthood, and hopefully the fruits of all that labor.

Most teachers spend time over the summer attending various professional development seminars on their own dime in order to develop the most effective strategies possible for the upcoming year.

This year, advertising spend on mobile platforms surpassed spending on desktop (or «display») advertising for the first time.

Confidants report that Bezos spends more time in Washington than in any other city outside of Seattle — ten trips a year, give or take — and for good reason.

This is happening at a time when the Ontario government has committed to spending $ 160 billion over 12 years to improve Ontario infrastructure.

What we've spent a lot of time focusing on in the last year is making sure that we're able to deliver that technology in a way that is super-customer-friendly and that is supported at a level they feel like they need, and that's from both a sales and account coverage standpoint.

Last year, a study commissioned by Larato found, «Salespeople spend 11 % of their time traveling.»

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

«That's why we've spent so much time in developing this, over seven years developing this engine, to make it reusable,» Smith said.

Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst who reviewed Nielsen digital consumption data, said Google properties, including YouTube and Waze, combined to account for 27.4 percent of all time spent on digital media — up 3 percentage points from the previous year.

While walking in with lots of questions for those on the sales floor is totally acceptable, customers who don't realize it's the busiest shopping day of the year may feel let down when it's impossible for you to spend as much time catering to their requests, says Mike Wittenstein, founder of Storyminers, an Atlanta - based customer experience and service design consultancy.

SoundHound has been around for 13 years, and has spent that time trying to build the most powerful voice assistant ever.

Durban, who says he spent about half his time over two years on Skype matters, focused on bringing in new management.

Writer Max Chafkin spent five months reporting the story and spending tons of time with Kalanick, who has been a bit press - shy in the past year.

I spent two years meditating full - time totally off the grid.

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

«This is a brand new way for people to contribute and give back in a way that's actually needed the most,» says Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's cofounder and chief product officer who has spent much of his time in the past few years leading the initiative.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

Chafkin spent five months reporting the story and spending tons of time with Kalanick, who has been a bit press - shy in the past year.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

Since investment banking giant Lehman Brothers fell nine years ago this day, signaling the start of a time when six homes were foreclosed on every minute, global consumers have been spending a lot of time on Netflix and a nice bit of cash on video games.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

If you spend any amount of time there, in addition to other landmarks such as the famous ball that descends on New Year's Eve and, of course, the Naked Cowboy, you will also notice aggressive salesmen roaming the streets selling their goods and services.

«I was spending all my time at the Crimson, like 70 hours a week and I didn't go to class for like a year,» he said.

Nearly everyone has been dealt a tough blow over the last couple years, and raising taxes at this time would kick consumer spending and the entrepreneurial spirit while they're already down.

Try this historic hotel and hunting lodge in North Wales, in the U.K., which has been owned and managed for the past four years by an American who spends most of his time stateside, running another business.

«It is an indication of the changing dynamic in the world that a skill set, maybe we didn't spend a lot of time on in the last 15 years, is coming back,» Capt. Jim McCall, commander of the air wing on the USS Bush, told The Wall Street Journal at the time.

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time talking to executive leaders about how they run their businesses.

Trump's plan seeks to revamp how projects are approved and funded by reducing permitting time to two years and allocating $ 200 billion over 10 years — mostly as incentives to spur states, localities and the private sector to spend at least $ 1.3 trillion.

Those pundits who have spent the past 10 years predicting the end of the industry should remember the last time it was in meltdown: 1982.

As you think about where your team is headed next year, spend some time asking the questions above in relation to each employee.