Sentences with phrase «around a conference table»

It's usually a bunch of marketing people sitting around a conference table tackling the target date project, but these folks usually don't know much about investment management.

Few, however, reconsider the way typical meetings are physically structured, i.e. with employees seated around a conference table.

If your team consists of only two or three people, you really don't have to sit around a conference table for every meeting.

Why meet around a conference table when you can go for a walk?

Not all conversations at work take place around a conference table — nor should they.

The group sat quietly around the conference table, checking election coverage on their phones.

Why companies are getting serious about reducing the time people spend sitting around the conference table.

Sure, they may pass muster around conference tables in Washington, but the bare minimum won't pass muster around kitchen tables.»

«I don't know if he's flexible enough,» says Palmer, looking around the conference table for Jorgensen, his strength coach.

We sat around a conference table surveying each other with the surprise of people who had known each other for years and suddenly found themselves at the altar, having never quite seen the possibility.

«If possible, don't put people around the conference table,» Littman said.

History apparently was still a work in progress, the strange thoughts grown in the basements of Tirana possibly closer to the geopolitical spirit of the times than the familiar platitudes handed around the conference tables at the American Enterprise Institute.

A couple of weeks later, 12 people — eight men, four women — sat around a conference table with a moderator, while Carl, our editor, and I looked on from the other side of a two - way mirror.

At the April 17 meeting, about 25 employees sat around a conference table while others joined by video from New York, Dublin, Mexico City, Washington and elsewhere.

Sitting around his conference table just days before their merger finally closed, in mid-October, Watts agrees.

«Warning: the book is graphic and rough, these are not people in suits sipping green tea around a conference table.»

His words fell like cleansing rain and adjournment soon followed, in time for the men to experience what most would remember better than any exchange around the conference table.

Last Friday, Black had gathered his pitchers around a conference table adjacent to the clubhouse to review the San Francisco hitters.

The dozen or so new mothers around the conference table listen raptly.

OXFORD, U.K. — Behind locked doors in one of the oldest libraries in Europe, two dozen scholars mill around a conference table where rare medieval manuscripts perch on lecterns, illuminated by natural light streaming in from floor - to - ceiling windows.

«For the judges to break five - three - one suggests to me that there are some interesting divisions happening around the conference table,» he adds, «and that the desire to have a consensus approach seems to have dissipated in favour of the judges staking out their unique ideological territory.»

So a little more than 10 years ago, Jenkins instituted the technique of collaborative divorce within her practice, which tackles divorce outside of the courts so that agreements can be reached around a conference table and thus be resolved with more dignity and respect.

Sets of two miniature white paper cups, labeled 304 and 305, were placed before five people seated around a conference table.

Several city school officials sat around a conference table in the district's downtown headquarters as Stallings and Tiffany Glanville, the board's vice chairwoman, directed them to figure out if there was a way to enroll Isiah at Noah Webster despite the strict racial quota.

So I looked around the conference table, at people who were not doctors, nurses, or medical managers — people who did work I couldn't even imagine and spoke a language I couldn't understand, and I said something like this; «I don't know much about what you do here, so I'm going to start by asking questions about what you do that will help you discover possibilities for you to do it more effectively, efficiently, and profitably than you're doing it now.

However frustrating and however difficult the debates in Europe, 100 years on we sort out our differences through dialogue at meetings around conference tables...

Mr Laws says of the talks with the Tories: «We sat around a conference table surveying each other with the surprise of people who had known each other for years and suddenly found themselves at the altar, having never quite seen the possibility.»

The Conference Venue provides seating for 10 persons around a conference table.

There's a scene in which Hoffman, Moore and Jeffrey Wright (returning as gadget guru Beetee) are sitting around a conference table in the District 13 war room, strategizing with Lawrence as Katniss, which feels way more substantive than it might through the sheer presence of these performers.

In her book, she references a meeting at Facebook with then - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner where the men were seated around a conference table and the women sat in chairs off to the side.

Unlike when employees sit around a conference table, and space is clearly segregated, standing created a shared working space.

«Basically everyone thinks they should be a consultant, giving thoughtful advice and sitting around a conference table.

But it was clear late on Thursday, with the parties and the judge seated around a conference table and the jury not present, that Mr. McDonald and Mr. Kry had critical roles as legal specialists in the case — «the law guys,» as several experts put it — a role the public rarely hears about.

Before we begin, I'd like to go around the conference table — wake up, please — I'd like to go around the conference table and see if we have any new complaints about our bosses.

When, long ago, big guns in education policymaking sat down around a conference table to decide what courses students had to pass to get a high school diploma, they didn't start from scratch and look at all possible options.

Lawyers would sit around conference tables, often on weekend days, to review the status of cases.