It was estimated that the team would need six years to complete the task.
At the time, he instructed them to make a boat that would float and focused on getting them to complete the task successfully.
Take action and show others that you can be responsible enough to hold yourself accountable and to complete the task all the way through to fruition.
Did you have to take your hands off the keyboard, reach across the desk, and grab some 50-year-old piece of hardware to complete the task?
With technology moving at the rate it is and globalization happening faster than ever before, more companies are looking to get more high-quality work done quickly, without the need for their own in-house employees to complete the task on site.
"The biggest thing I learned from this is to choose your teammates wisely, because you have to work with them for six months, and to set progress goals and stick to them in order to complete the task at hand in time to review your work and make necessary changes, " says Smith.
And then I tried to actually complete the task of getting a movie from a DVD to an iPad.
Predictive tagging is particularly indicative of how automation and human comprehension must collaborate to efficiently complete the task of reviewing data.
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Furthermore, if the manager has to threaten the employee to complete a task, then that employee is not a valuable addition to the team.
But commission officials have warned that it is unlikely to complete its task by the end of 2015 as requested.
One goal of this approach is to eliminate non-value-added activities in Chrysler plants in a thoroughgoing way that the company never has attempted before, down to shaving steps required by an assembly-line operator to complete a given task by asking the worker to redesign the job.
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"We know that we all have to live up to the task and commitments we took to complete our monetary union, " Mr. Van Rompuy said.
Now, our first and most immediate task is to complete the economic recovery by taking additional steps to bolster demand and keep credit flowing.
Those raw materials are then moved from one station to another station where an expert makes a small modification given the small amount of time given to complete their task.
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If you work at a large complex organization, always keep the big picture of your company and your goals in mind rather than just focusing on the next task to complete.
As soon as you back off, say by switching off the background music and allowing your foreground process to have all the processing power (and thereby complete its task more quickly), the benefits of having a dual-core machine will become far less tangible.
Often, people will need a combination of styles depending on the complexity of the task assigned, their experience with the task, and the competency levels required to complete it with excellence.
The real drama is the rift he has managed to expose in the Security Council, at a time when Unscom still needs its full backing if the inspectors are ever to complete their task.
The easier you make a task, the less motivated someone needs to be to complete it.
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The law measures value by the amount of time it takes to complete a task.
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On the other hand, employees are least proficient at multiplying the opportunities inherent in the initial task they were asked to complete.
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In other words, help prospects complete the task of narrowing down their investigation to you and your brand.
In a 2008 study, de Waal and colleagues put two capuchin monkeys side by side and gave them a simple task to complete: Giving a rock to the experimenter.
For example, you might fudge on the amount of time it takes you to complete a task you were asked to perform by your spouse because you want to build in enough time to goof off before you actually do it.
Your consumers are using an ever widening array of devices and sources to support their data gathering habits and their almost addictive-like craving for the latest piece of information to help them complete a task, or be one up on their friends, associates or competition.
He's referring to the fact that the huge post-privatisation task of improving the region's sewerage systems is basically complete and on the supply side, we are blessed with good reservoirs that are fortunately full.
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Five years later, I found myself travelling around the world alone, with a single task left to complete on my bucket list.
After forming a corporation (a surprisingly easy task with lots of private companies competing to help one complete the proper legal steps), Julia approached the public parks agency about the possibility of her leasing the campground and reopening it under private management.
Complete a task, do it well, and then move on to the next.
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He says the Japanese electronics retailer Yodobashi used to take 3 days to calculate the effectiveness of promotional campaigns, but that with HANA they can complete the task in under 3 seconds, allowing rapid changes in strategy on a daily basis.
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