As women, whether entrepreneurs, corporettes, or community leaders, we often expect our fellow sisters to do a task for some unclear or nonexistent future benefit.
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Why, for example, would that particular person want to do a particular task for you?
TaskRabbit nabbed the first-in-line spot to try to promote its online service that allows people to pay someone else to do a menial task for them.
If a manager has to tell an employee that they need to do a certain task and then constantly checks to see if it was done, the organization will never be successful.
And while it probably goes without saying that at least a few still fetch coffee for the higher-ups, a fair number of administrative and executive assistants would probably look askance at a boss who asked them to stop answering phones, planning for meetings and dealing with the time-consuming minutiae of keeping an office functioning to do a personal task like that.
Enron was allowed to do this because a task force of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) could not decide how energy contracts should be accounted for, explains Douglas Carmichael, the Wollman distinguished professor of accounting at Baruch College.
Often, it takes many thousands of generations to create control programs that do a good job of completing the task given to a robot.
All you need to do is choose a new task and link it to your old ones.
Rewards can also be given in apps beyond just games when people, say, share a photo, or finish a task on a to-do list.
But the product itself faces the same problem as the toaster: cooking grains is a fairly simple task, how do you build a product that can do it better and therefore be worth a premium to consumers?
Complete a task, do it well, and then move on to the next.
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And when we have a task to do together, our collaboration is almost always smooth and productive, the outcomes high-quality.
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All it would do is make their task a bit easier.
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Most of them have a surplus of clever ideas about what to do with the money (this is a world of task-forces and initiatives, of research agendas and development projects).
The presentation goes on to explain how, for Siri to do some complex task like book a restaurant reservation for you, it needs to access lots of your apps including: Google, Yelp, Yahoo!
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Has he, since Friday, asked either HHS, the Justice Department, any one at the DPC to either form a task force or do anything to bring to him either new ideas, research, data, anything to address what you described as a complex problem that requires a complex solution?
They become clearer after Mr Weeks, while observing a group at one of the bank's Securities Centres, is given a particularly tedious task to do.
But McBride suggests there's one other major factor in the calculation that has little to do with politics and more to do with the simple task of helping a spouse at a critical time.
While it may be relatively easier to push technology onto users, transforming business culture takes much more convincing: changing attitudes to do work in a social space, changing task and workflow behavior, changing motivation and compensation models, changing business metrics and KPIs, changing customer facing processes, working through longer adoption cycles, and ingraining a culture of collaboration.
To this date we are unable to build a machine that can do the simplest human task: Converse.
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He and I have a specific task and we will do all in our power to do it.
Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro have also compared the brain activity of dyslexics and readers who were given a task that has nothing to do with reading.
"It is true that any task a classical computer can do, a quantum computer can do, " says Jeff Kimble, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
If you wanted to do only one task and do it the same way every time, you would do better with a custom chip design -- what the engineers call an application specific integrated circuit.
Another tactic: Build time for mind wandering into daily routines, breaking away from tasks requiring concentration to take a walk or run, look out a window or do some relaxing, routine physical task.
It may simply be that those who have the wherewithal to cook at home--or who earn sufficient income to support a wife who cooks at home or to hire a servant to do it--tend to be those with the cognitive ability to handle the complicated task of managing a healthy and balanced diet.
If you have nothing to do, offer to take on another task or help a colleague who looks overloaded.
Finding the parts you need to keep a house from falling apart, and then figuring out what to do with them once you get home, is a monumental task.
But for now the company is practicing what it preaches and focusing on the most important task on its to do list: create a great, simple mobile e-mail app.
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