Sentences with phrase «years of work into»

I put ten years of work into that story, only to have it rejected 52 times.

Still, he says, the poor dependability scores are a red flag for a brand that has put years of work into improving its quality reputation.

While it is impressive to see amazing actors grow up in front of our eyes, we can't forget that a lot of people put years of work into making the feature films that we love so much.

We put 11 years of work into that place.

The way people avoid doing it alone is having put years and years of work into relationships, real and frequently unselfish relationships, with other people.

SeatGeek has poured six years of work into its interactive maps, which pull data from a ton of sources.

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My dad worked for 35 years at Stelco in Hamilton, before watching a once great company dragged into bankruptcy, in large part because of a pension plan it could no longer fund.

Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

Tightening of monetary policy meant to cool the housing market over the past year, combined with a wind - down in public works, has served to slow GDP growth into the single digits.

Once years ago while attending a conference in Las Vegas put on by a startup I was working with at the time, I ran into one of the speakers for the day, long - time Vegas resident and Zappos founder Tony Hsieh.

For some people it takes years of hard work, stressful days, and sleepless nights, but like anything you put time and energy into, the end result is definitely worth the effort.

For example, you might note to a new acquaintance that you just marked your fifteenth year in marketing, having progressed into a role that lets you work with some of the smartest people in the business.

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.

After five years at Telstra, where she worked her way up to the position of senior corporate account executive, managing one of Telstra's top accounts, Deanne Pederson jumped ship and threw herself into the world of party, wedding and quality event equipment hire.

She taps into 15 years of recruitment and leadership experience, after working at companies such as Google and Salesforce.com, to now coach, advise and speak around the world.

As I have repeatedly said over the years, I do not believe that the overwhelming majority of advisors - be they wirehouse, hybrid, independent or RIA - have gotten into this business because they want to work against their clients.

And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

«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.

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

A few years after his first foray into illicit home brewing, Hindy's wife grew fed up with him working in the line of fire, so he came home and took a job with Newsday.

The math is compelling: a few extra years of work can boost your retirement income far more when you take risk into account.

But now a massive new 62 - year long study has thrown a big wrench into the works of our understanding of personality.

Because a few extra years of work will boost your retirement income more than higher investment returns will, once you take the risk into account.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

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.

«You can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years.

Rita Alvy - Teeter came into work one bright spring day last year to find a third of the revenue pulled out from under her Irvine, California, design firm.

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.

To calculate someone's market value (which the Know Your Worth tool recalculates for participating members each week), Glassdoor's machine learning algorithms take into account current job title, base salary, employer, work location, industry, typical job transitions, years of relevant experience, and current state of the local job market.

Remarkably, many of these corporate leaders and companies are still working from the playbook developed by Johnson & Johnson over 35 years ago, when people began dying due to cyanide being maliciously injected into Tylenol pill capsules.

Smartphone makers Apple and Samsung spend billions on research and development each year so that our smartphones and other connected devices continue to evolve into high - tech works of art.

In an industry constantly starved for raw material, the 70 - year - old author's work stands out as an untapped resource — a fact that's now been recognized by a new Canadian company created for the purpose of turning the British writer's bestsellers into box - office hits.

The process won't be much different from last year, though if you're one of the millions of investors who jumped into the cryptocurrency craze, you may have extra work to do.

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.

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 second method is to have the equipment purchased and installed at the beginning of the business year or quarter closest to the time when you'll actually need the equipment, allowing time for training and working out bugs before the equipment is placed into full production.

Prior to HM3, he was an engineer, executive, and serial investor, starting with 21 years in the R&D function of Union Carbide, where he worked on converting coal into gasoline.

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.

This is one of the very few areas that require some in - depth understanding prior to launching into a new venture so that you don't get months, or years, down the road to find that the business you've been working to build isn't financially viable.

Heidi Burkhart, president of Dane Professional Consulting Group: «At 21, I got into commercial real estate brokerage in NYC... My first three years I was hustling, working 24/7, and surviving on peanuts... Fourth quarter of my third year, I finally started closing deals.

Assuming that you are smart and willing to work hard but aren't at the top of the world's richest, you may have a great idea, but you don't know how to turn that into a business that keeps growing at over 100 % a year.

Right now, the first CRISPR gene therapies are in development, but they are not built on a «standard stack» and require a lot of custom work for each indication - these therapies will be coming into the clinic and hopefully get approved the coming couple years, and after that there could be significantly more investment into standard tools.»

Mr Jerkovic worked at Straits Resources for an extraordinary 22 years guiding the company through listing on the Singapore exchange and ultimately out of exploration and into production.

Our museum has worked hard over the last several years to improve our reach into the African - American and Hispanic communities, since the region has a large population of the former and is experiencing rapid growth among the latter group.

The start of a new year is a great time to put our work habits under a microscope, toss the ideas that haven't been working and put new action into play.

Gindalbie Metals shares slipped on the ASX today after the iron ore producer said it would need extra working capital to see out the end of the year, having run into more issues at its Karara project in the Mid West.

To earn some spending money while attending Thomas Jefferson High School in his Brooklyn neighborhood, Blankfein worked as a lifeguard and got himself into better shape, after years of struggling with his weight.

Watch Graham F. Scott, managing editor of Canadian Business, speak to Breakfast Television about how baby boomers are easing into their retirement years with non-traditional work.

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).