Sentences with phrase «years of that time spent»

Barra has been with the search giant for close to five and a half years with nearly three years of that time spent working with the Android team.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

IDrive, which produces an online - backup service, has spent more than $ 2 million on legal and settlement fees, as well as a year's worth of employee time defending itself, all for charges it says are entirely without merit.

Summer is almost over, and it's already time to start thinking about the holidays — otherwise known as the biggest spending season of the year.

People playing games on their mobile phones will spend more than the hardcore audience of PC gamers for the first time this year.

I analyzed a year's worth of Hsieh's schedule (which he shares publicly with anyone who cares to read it) to learn where he spends his time.

We only spend about 10 to 15 percent of our time working on long - term projects that will not impact the business for years to come.

I ended up opening eight locations over the next five years, and then sold some of them to spend more time with my growing family.

In this in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

But, how many of us also pause to reflect on a place where we spend so much of our time and energy during the year — work?

But over the last few years, careers in social media have exploded as companies realize the value of reaching their customers on the medium where they spend most of their time.

So you better give the 13 - year - old more independence and spend most of your time and energy with the infant.

She had chosen the life of a crafter because she wanted to be close to her 5 - year - old son, but she felt as if she hadn't spent any meaningful time with him in months.

Amazon is spending $ 4.5 billion on video content this year, a staggering figure that puts it behind Netflix at $ 6 billion and ahead of Time Warner's at $ 2.5 billion.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

While spending time with family, I'd stare into a small screen on my lap instead of engaging at a level I would have a mere few years back.

At Google, perks such as free lunches and the 20 % rule (where workers spend 20 % of their time on personal passion projects) have helped it recruit and retain enough top talent for the company to become a global force in just 10 years.

I've never even heard of this man until today which is a little odd for me personally because he's based out of The Bahamas and I've spent considerable amounts of time there over the years.

Whether it's being healthier, reaching financial goals or spending more time with loved ones, we make our New Year's resolutions in pursuit of the greatest reward: a happier, more fulfilled life.

It's that time of the year where we spend our days and nights frequently caught up in reflection.

The single biggest element is $ 17.6 billion over five years in spending restraint, including anticipated lowered operating costs of $ 6.8 billion over the same time period.

«We spent a lot of the time over the last couple of years learning from our retail operations out west,» said Mark Childs, chief marketing officer at Samsung Canada, in an interview with Marketing.

It's also worth considering one - time expenses, like the installation of a security system, that may inflate a given year's spending, says Aaron Boyd, director of governance research at Equilar.