Sentences with phrase «years of work go»

Years of work went into getting these superheroes right, which you can hear all about in some of the Marvel commentaries recommended below.

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A quick «congrats on the great work» email, thank - you note or pat on the back can go a long way in cultivating improved job performance and a positive company culture for the rest of the year.

He intended to go back to school in the fall and work on fulfillment while he was in his second year of classes.

Whether it's your busiest time of the year or you're working hard to keep momentum going into the next year, navigating the holiday season can be especially tricky for any startup.

«The days of working 60 - hour weeks for 30 years at the same company are long gone,» she says.

«I took off what I thought was going to be 6 months of work, that turned into a year and I had already been to about 160 countries by then,» Lavallo told CNBC.

When my daughter Chloe was born 10 years ago, I went back to work after 12 weeks, the max amount of time the Family Medical Leave Act would protect my job.

«When you go through this work, you see the evolution of art and design over 120 years — the different styles, the different techniques,» Durrell says.

I sold securities for three years and I kept writing him and finally I went to work for him for a couple of years.

Many of the CEOs and leadership teams I have worked with over the years have fallen into the same trap: they get overly focused on selling their company to a strategic or financial acquirer or worse, going public.

What am I going to do with my people, some of whom have been working for me for 10 or 20 years?

«I thought, I'm going to commit two to three years of my life to work for these people to learn everything that I possibly can.»

A recent working paper from the University of Oxford reports that every Olympics in the past 50 years has gone over budget, with an average increase of 179 %.

«Over the past several years, NASA has been funding a group of psychologists to develop a software program astronauts could use, while aboard spacecraft, to help them work through depression and conflicts with their fellow space - goers.

So the following year, when the secretary decided to go public in a Vanity Fair article with her account of a quarter - century spent working for Bernie Madoff, it was hard to begrudge her a voice.

New Year's resolutions simply don't work until you let go of the old ways of thinking that prevent you from bringing in the new.

The grab - and - go convenience of a laptop - only worklife has worked for me for years — but that doesn't mean I'm willing to sacrifice screen space.

A recent working paper from the University of Oxford says that every Olympic Games from the past 50 years has gone over budget — and not by slim margins.

A lot of work and development has gone into building on storage technology over the last few years, and as such, they've gotten a lot better.

And it's going to help you in business, be it by a mixture of accounts on other corporate successes or failures and lessons on lean startups, or a 2,500 - year - old military tome that works just as well in boardrooms as war.

After serving in the Air Force for three years, Berthold graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1985 with a degree in mechanical engineering and went to work in professional car racing.

A few years ago, a male graduate student told me that he would go work in the middle of a mosquito - infested swamp if that was the job that would guarantee him the best opportunity for a lucrative career down the road.

I can work with one client for two weeks until a project is completed or I can work with a company for an average of a year and a half until they dismiss their marketing team and choose to go in a different direction.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

Whether it's your busiest time of the year or you're working hard to keep momentum going into the new year, navigating the holiday season can be especially tricky for any startup.

«If you go back a few years, we rented a little place that literally had a garage, and we were working out of there,» Heraud says.

I've been part of the decision - making that's been going on since Stephen joined the company six years ago, and we've worked closely together.

«He's going to have a lot of work to convince people that if it didn't work over the last 15 years, how will it work over the next five, 10, 15 years,» says Dan Hallett, a director of Highview Asset Management.

We not only rallied going into the close of the year, the rally at the start of the year has taken everyone by surprise, far surpassing the typical first - day putting - money - to - work story.

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.»

Waymo sued Uber nearly a year ago, sparking a showdown between the two technology companies over allegations by Waymo that one of its former engineers took trade secrets just before quitting and going to work at Uber.

«When the town asks regional authorities for funding for a project, it's told: you have Rusal, go work it out with them,» said Erik Chernyshev, a local Communist Party politician, former member of the region's upper house, who also worked as an engineer at the factory for 18 years.

Many of its former employers have gone on to work for other big technology companies over the years like Intel (intc), Nvidia (nvda), and supercomputer maker Cray, explained Patrick Moorhead, the president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

The most famous example of this is in farming, where one man with a big tractor now often does the work that a dozen men might have done in years gone by.

Using new gas - injection technology that creates gas bubbles in the middle layer of the bottle wall, the company reduced the amount of plastic that goes into each container by 15 %, which works out to about 275 tonnes of plastic a year.

The vast majority of us have to spend years of our lives going through this cyclical process of: learning, working, succeeding, failing... learning, working succeeding, failing, (repeat).

The idea came out of a brainstorming session during which the students recognized that access to information among applicants varies widely, says May Lam, 27, a first year student who had worked in private equity before going to Harvard.

And if you have created the best, your figures will add up at the end of the year, and you'll have more money coming in than going out, and you can employ some accountants to work out the difference between net and gross.»

I love every day that I come to work, going on eight years of this business, and enjoy it more than I did in the beginning.

The Medium post followed another by an employee going by the name of Talia Jane (not her full name), a 25 - year - old working in customer service for Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24.

«This man is going to be the death of me,» Abedin, who first worked for Clinton as a 19 - year - old intern in the 1990s, said as her boss hugged her.

«There was length, there was strength, there were physical talents, but to go with them was a beautifully polished set of skills, the kind of skills that a 17 - year - old could possess only after long hours of dedicated work,» writes Lazenby.

That works out to about $ 3 billion of added market value a year, on average, for the titan of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, which went public in 2002 in an $ 82.5 million offering.

Eduardo Salcido — a 25 - year - old concrete finisher working at a 232 - home Toll Brothers subdivision going up in the Denver suburb of Broomfield — said that he received on - site training after entering the construction field as a painter.

A laptop should work for at least three years to justify the hundreds of dollars you're going to spend on it.

«This is key, because if you're young it means you have 30 - 35 years left of working life, so you are going to be working for a few decades, and that means paying taxes for a few decades,» Vargas - Silva said.

At this point, Dyson decided to go and work at his father's enterprise, and over the course of two years, he worked on a project from concept to just before manufacture - but it never went into production, because, as Dyson remembers it, it was too contemporary for the time (and it may be still be so today, he adds).

Explore the possibilities of going part time for at least one year and working on your business part time.

Any person close to us will say we have had no shortage of miracles and most startups that really make it far have similar stories; years where founders did contract work, or full teams were let go.