Sentences with phrase «years of doing things»

it's so hard to get an actual flow, especially after years of doing things at random.

The days when a worker's greatest attributes were institutional knowledge and expertise based on years of doing things the same way are not gone, but they are going.

After years of doing things the conventional way and seeing women do the same, this is what I have seen:

Not exact matches

Mahan has ideas for other things employers can do over the course of the year to develop a culture of civic engagement in the office:

When you fly 300,000 miles per year, you do one of three things on a plane: work, sleep or watch movies.

Whereas I imagine most of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest of my career.

It's getting to that time when we begin to think about lists of things we should be doing in the New Year.

I personally identify with Macy after the loss of her dad after losing my own Dad two years ago, but I also identify with Macy's moment of realization that she needs to do things for herself.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

But this year, instead of going through the motions again and later expressing frustration when things don't go as planned, here's a thought:

«One thing we do know is that over the course of the years we have had some macroprudential changes to how this system works and we are comfortable those changes have done a lot to make sure the most fragile or the most vulnerable of those in that borrowing space are in effect being protected or have been prevented from excessive borrowing,» he said.

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

So Biderman, — the self - described «King of Infidelity» — who just last year told PROFIT 500 researchers that «there's no such thing as bad attention for our business» — did something that would be unthinkable to most entrepreneurs: He fired himself.

One of the best things we did for this business was spending four months in the Silicon Valley at Y Combinator program last year.

«So after 10 years of 4 % raises, their comp is now 48 % higher, but you haven't done a single thing to tie it to performance or productivity.»

If Trump doesn't live up to his deal - making promises we could face another four years of legislative stalemate — which for many businesses may not be such a bad thing either.

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

The beginning of a new year for many means a new opportunity to review some things your business is currently doing and decide where you can make adjustments or changes.

One thing I did initially was that I came in with lower prices and accepted jobs at a loss, so for a couple of years I had some pretty significant losses.

One thing to know: Kirk Cousins remains one of the most intriguing potential free agents for the coming year, and Washington has done itself no favors in keeping its most marketable star.

One day, portrait photographer Jesse Holland took a photo of her two - year - old daughter Ella and her dog doing the same thing.

One thing to know: The Buccaneers» season didn't go the way many viewers of «Hard Knocks» expected this year.

«The hardest thing is: How does that fit into a cohesive, larger vision, that's going to allow you to sell eight billion dollars, 10 billion dollars of product a year?

It means driving the same car for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake of buying them.

But in order to do so, we need to know basic things such as the units (jobs vs. person - years of employment) of the numbers we're debating.

If only half of startups survive more than five years and only one - third make it to 10, what's the one thing you could do to ensure your company is sustainable?

If we spin things forward over the next several years as the Machine becomes something that people use, what kinds of challenges do you expect and what are some of the key things that need to be accomplished?

«One of the things most founders deal with today that they didn't deal with five years ago is navigating the major platforms — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,» he said.

The good news is that by doing a few simple things, such as planning to withdraw no more than 4 % of your portfolio each year, you can lower your risk significantly.

When I look back on it years later, that one sentence really does keep memories vivid — it really does bring back the past — which is one of the things you really want a journal to do,» she says.

Recruited by Google for many years, Stouffer instead decided to do his own thing and eventually founded an AI - powered SEO platform that now does an impressively good job of making predictions.

Or perhaps it all began after years of doing the same thing over and over again — you knew there had to be another more efficient process.

For years of consistency, you have to develop systems of things like saving your ideas in a file, creating an environment conducive to writing, and knowing how to tell people you can't do something so you can write.

«While over the years we'd heard some of those accusations and we heard there were a couple of settlements, it didn't seem to be the kind of thing that was critical mass,» he said.

«One of the best things I did this year was answering these two questions honestly for myself: What is my worst self?

And considering every company on the planet is alive thanks to the selling of products and services, predicting how sales will be changing in coming years seems like a prudent thing to do.

If the House and Senate don't manage to get an updated bill on Trump's desk before the end of the year, but do get things done in early 2018, then the bill could be made retroactive.

After 11 years of studying the habit, and a lifetime battling it, Steel — now a professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business — has become the world's leading authority on not getting things done.

Think about something you dreamed of doing five or 10 years ago but didn't work to do — and think about how good you'd be today at that thing if you had.

«Each morning for the past 15 years, I've carved out the first 15 minutes of my day to hand write my «top five» for the day — the things that I need to get done to move my larger goals forward — on a new page in a bound notebook.

Like any start - up, the first thing Churchill did three and a half years ago when he founded VonChurch was build a senior management team, or as he calls it, «a supergroup» that would be as cohesive and successful as some of the best rock bands.

There's nothing wrong with eliminating information from your résumé that you don't think will help strengthen your candidacy (whether it's an unrelated master's degree or a job outside your field), but having a bachelor's and five years of experience isn't the type of thing that is going to make people think you're shockingly overqualified for and unhireable for a tutoring job.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

«We've been doing these kinds of jokes for a few years now, and I think the key thing that we're learning is to trust our gut a little more than we usually do.

This line of thinking is especially difficult to adapt in the consumer tech world, where every company does their best to convince you that this year's Thing is constantly superior than last year's Whatever.

If they indicate that their child is heading off to their first year of college, or they are taking a long awaited vacation, jot these things down on a calendar so you can ask how things went when you do a follow - up call.

«The thing I most respect about Brito is he does what he says he's going to do,» says Dave Peacock, who was president of AB at the time and stayed on for three years.

But the first thing I recommend you do when you receive a windfall is to take a «money break» and not increase your standard of living for at least a year.

Think about one thing you dreamed of doing five or 10 years ago but didn't work to do... and think about how good you'd be today at that one thing if you had.

There's «more work to do, but by the time we get to the end of the year, things look pretty strong and pretty solid.»