Sentences with phrase «all around the table»

«We value family dinners, and every night, share three good things with one another, going around the table and explaining three good things that happened to each of us throughout the day.

Last October, I looked around the table during a Lessonly board meeting and thought to myself, «How do the women on the team feel when they walk past this room and see a bunch of men making big decisions on their behalf?»

Because they aren't trying to protect the multi-million dollar investment they made in our business, independent board members hold a more objective view than the VCs around the table.

«Growing up, my grandparents would be sitting around the table.

There also was concern around the table about what a faster drop in value would do to inflation expectations.

Going around the table, they'd say things like, «Hey, when you shoot me a 10 - page email at two in the morning... I want to punch you in the face,» recalled co-CEO Neil Blumenthal in a 2013 speech.

In general, producing new perspectives around the table is an important thing to do.

«Teams» of one stripe or another cluster around tables in glass - walled rooms, watching someone with a whiteboard marker make lists and draw Venn diagrams.

With something that might be more complicated and not as obvious, I think having women around the table will help get more female entrepreneurs funded.

I remember one pitch where Katia and I did the whole thing, it was all men around the table, and then we'd leave and look at each other and realized that we honestly could've been saying anything and the only thing they heard come out of our mouths was «lip gloss, lip gloss, lip gloss.»

«Before they could even start talking about the business they were building, they had to explain to the guys around the table how women thought about their closets or whatever it might be.»

The second thing that we need is to get more women around the table.

«You can look around a table and you have a lawyer, an accountant, a graphic designer, a programmer and its like «Wow, if they all got together they could form their own company right there,»» Siegel says.

Tabletop exercises, in which someone creates a scenario and the individuals around the table take on roles, can be an effective way to talk through the details of your plan, Brown says.

One technique he suggests when trying to determine what to do next is to find an empty room and imagine 4 chairs around a table, each filled with a different personal advisor.

«We don't just want to go and spread our roulette chips around the table.»

It says a lot when your post-credits scene is mainly your heroes sitting around a table eating shawarma.

«The big challenge is that the level of computer power that one of these things needs is pretty high,» Wilcove says, adding that as the market evolves, he can imagine a communications app for far - flung business meetings «where you're all virtually sitting around the table in different locations with one of these headsets on, James Bond - style.»

If you have a group of people with different perspectives around the table, you are going to end up in a better place, in decisions you make and in things you decide to invest in.

Or, instead of asking your kids at dinner how school was today, go around the table and ask everyone to share a story of how they struggled with something.

ZenDesk started with intensive planning around a table, but CEO Mikkel Svane learned that at some point a company must simply set a date.

But anyone who knows this hub of venture capital would immediately spot something unusual about this particular gathering: Four of the eight investors seated around the table are female.

Which leads to the real reason the women's roundtable might actually change things: Sitting around the table were a group of capable, smart, accomplished businesswomen who defied all manner of odds to get there.

Around the table the day it was uttered were people abandoning a mature, hidebound industry with the aim of disrupting it.

They also make breakfast and sit at around the table and chat about what's going on.

Watch the eyes around the table as you utter this one.

Their investment is based on the idea and there is little emotion around the table (always a good thing).

«I don't want to say we had to put a little more grey around the table, but we recognized the need to bring in some really great perspectives and experiences,» says Faheem Gwadry, Indochino's senior vice-president of operations and chief financial officer.

Josh More called it a «mild problem,» and judging from the reaction around the table, most of the participants seemed to agree.

Dylan writes: You make the claim that mutual fund markdown processes are more complicated then people sitting around the table, spit - balling numbers.

«That gives us all some leverage around the table in terms of negotiating the potential terms of the United States coming back.»

So the conversations around that question were formal; they set up meetings, they made sure the right people were sitting around the table, and they knew who was accountable.

«Part of this consensus on pricing is not everybody sitting around the table smoking cigars saying oil is going back to $ 80, $ 90, $ 100,» said Getten.

The report was from Paul Kunert's The Register and cited a person who told Kunert, «While these things have a habit of fizzling out there are some fairly serious players around the table.»

As I pushed the final plate away and re-contemplated Thanksgiving as a holiday, I realized something was missing — the faces of my friends and family around the table.

There were 10 people around the table, all asking questions, when Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon's co-founder and then CEO, interrupted: «Listen, when the market changes and the retailers are pissed off that you disrupted the space, what are you gonna do?»

Around the table were two dozen startup founders; we were asked to introduce ourselves and then to volunteer what keeps us up at night.

Jointly they said, «We appreciate the opportunity to have meaningful discussions with Kevin Johnson and the group around the table to address hard issues.

During a relatively intimate dinner at the home of our chairman, a VC named Berry Cash, Kemp — who had failed in a presidential bid against George Bush in 1988 — thought it would be fun to go around the table and see who each of us thought the GOP should nominate for the ’96 election against Bill Clinton.

One investor might be willing to do his or her $ 3 million prorata but with 3 other investors around the table she doesn't want to fund unless everybody his doing her share.

What it does have, though, is a little more than the bully pulpit because these reforms [to financial regulations] that are under way are the product of a process where all the major economies are around the table and they're participating in their development, and then they agree ultimately at the leader level in the G20.

But if we had all the central bankers of the world around a table, could we collectively regard the rise in commodity prices as exogenous?

They want a different voice around the table than they're typically getting.

In his testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on November 28th, 2017, he stated, «We make better decisions when we have diverse voices around the table — both at the Board of Governors and at the Reserve Banks... We've seen what works.

And in the middle of the room, gathered around a table with a brass plaque inscribed COACH «S CORNER, is a group of sixtysomething guys clinking beers and eating pizza.

«Everyone around that table understood the need for Ontario as a province to get out as soon as possible and articulate our interest in defence of Ontario workers, Ontario businesses and Ontario's economy,» the senior official said.

With a diverse range of people around the table, Gouw says, «you're going to get a more 360 - degree view on the business.»

That's what the data has shown and we believe having diversity around the table really has an impact on the bottom line.

When you have different thought processes and different experiences around the table, more options and more solutions are considered.

I remember one White House meeting we came in and we were all around the table, and somehow it had been decided that 140 was the number.