Sentences with phrase «at big organizations»

This is the mindset it takes to close massive sales with executives at big organizations.

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«The biggest impediment... is really the organization itself,» says Jennifer Lee, national retail leader at Deloitte.

«Big companies and young, fast - growing companies provide more jobs,» says Jordan Bell - Masterson, a research analyst at the Kauffman Foundation, the entrepreneurship research and grant - making organization.

«I suspect there are more rumours than there are facts at the moment, and rumours are one of the biggest challenges any individual or organization has to deal with in a crisis,» he says.

«Social entrepreneurs are people who look at society and see the big problems and see innovative solutions that are permanent and can change the fabric of society,» says Dr. Lyndon Haviland, interim CEO for Darkness to Light, a non-profit organization tasked with preventing the sexual abuse of children.

«There's a technical question, which is, could you comply if you wanted to, and then the bigger meta question is why would you want to cooperate with this politicized drive to suppress freedom of expression,» said Andrew McLaughlin, Google's former director of global policy and now leading content organization at Medium.

It may seem like a beneficial thing for organizations - having employees at the office rather than relaxing at the beach - but it's actually a big problem for productivity.

While in the past, HR managers did the tedious work like payroll, today they're some of the most essential people in any organization, being at the centre of big strategic moves like mergers and acquisitions and corporate recruiting.

«In big organizations, especially at a headquarters office with 1,000 employees, it's workable,» he says.

One of the big announcements made at Summit & Salute is our new partnership with Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), a leading public policy organization which advocates on behalf of women business owners.

«DecisionWise's employee feedback and 360 tools have made a big difference at my organization.

It was incredibly useful for my big organization job at the time, particularly because of the students who all had big jobs to, I learnt as much from my peers as the professors.

A big part of the organization's role is building and sustaining networks of partners and stakeholders from private industry, academia and governments, at home and abroad.

While you are at it our great government spent billions on Katrina clean up yet 96 % of the real work came from charitable organizations and yes churchs were the biggest releif and work force present.

At most simple levels of material synthesis, individual nodes of organization like subatomic particles are only determinate as functions within a bigger framework, so it is perhaps not surprising that their behaviour can only be expressed in terms of statistical probability.

Weighing in at six tons (the equivalent of 32,346 medium - sized Idaho ® potatoes), the Great Big Idaho ® Potato is traversing the country to greet fans and to help raise funds and awareness for the Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA), the oldest and largest national organization dedicated to helping end senior hunger.

Weighing in at 6 tons (the equivalent of 32,346 medium - sized Idaho ® potatoes), the Great Big Idaho ® Potato is traversing the country to greet fans and to help raise funds and awareness for Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA), the oldest and largest national organization dedicated to helping end senior hunger.

I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

For simple scale, take a look at the relatively lilliputian requirements to join the roughly 3,000 members of Tall Clubs International (phone number: 888 - I - M - TALL - 2), the biggest social organization of its kind.

An amount which always seems to be bigger than any other team, — Instead of improving the organization of the team, we see a team giving away at least 3 goals to a direct opponent, who was also weakened by injuries.

Hawaii's also well out of the way of the camp and combine circuit, to which so many players go to get noticed, at events put on by Nike, Under Armour, Rivals, or some other big organization.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

But can't afford him though the organization owes the fans at least on big trade or FA signing to look like we are trying to make the playoffs

They are the main professional organization of big cloth diaper companies, diaper stores, diaper services, and work - at - home - moms.

Another factor is the SNA's cozy relationship with Big Food, which funds at least half of the organization's operating budget.

WHAT GREAT PARENTS DO: The small Book of BIG Parenting Ideas began as a workshop in local schools and soon grew into a class attended by thousands of parents at schools and organizations, including Habitot Children's Museum, University of California Berkeley, UCSF Benioff / Children's Hospital, and San Francisco Zen Center.

Cheating is a symptom of a bigger problem in education, said Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford University and co-founder of Challenge Success, an organization that works with schools and families to improve student well - being and engagement with learning.

A few years ago, when Big Boy was 5, I took a class in allowances at a wonderful local non-profit parenting organization, The Parent Encouragement Program.

Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society.

Citizen Action of New York bills itself as «a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society.»

At a press conference of more than a dozen law enforcement agencies and organizations, West detailed the bill, stating, «I think the biggest issue is that of the actual policy.

Andy Smarick, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit education reform organization, said Mr. Cuomo was unusual among current and recent Democratic governors of big states in his fidelity to reform priorities, noting that Martin O'Malley, the departing governor of Maryland, and Deval L. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, were closer to teachers» unions.

«In aggregate this is a much bigger concern and it just adds to the litany of policy questions that the Cuomo administration hasn't answered,» said Nicole Kaeding, director of special projects at the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C., organization that studies tax policies nationwide.

With some luck (and money), the ATA will continue its search for extraterrestrial civilizations at least through 2016, when there will be a new, much bigger kid on the block: the $ 2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, a collaboration among 70 organizations in 20 countries.

«This is such a diverse organization, we want people who bring a different perspective and understanding, so we can expand globally,» explains Susan Bunz, human resources and corporate services vice president at Pioneer Hi - Bred, a Dupont business, the plant genetics company that ranked # 4 this year (a big leap from # 19 in 2010).

«One big problem we have is that tens of thousands of human genome variants and phenotypes are spread throughout a number of databases, each one with their own organization and nomenclature that aren't easily accessible,» said Julia Wang, an M.D. / Ph.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor and a McNair Student Scholar in the Bellen lab, as well as first author on the publication.

Scientists working with big data sometimes face government agencies and nongovernmental organizations that are unwilling to share their data, said Peter Speyer, chief data and technology officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

Himler: Robin Lloyd is a sociologist and science writer with extensive print and online experienced at big and small news and science organizations on both coasts of the U.S..

When we think about jobs at nonprofit organizations (NPOs), we're likely to envision those big international entities that help displaced populations relocate after a natural disaster, or immunize children in developing countries against common diseases.

Most organizations allow you to sign up for just one day at time so you don't have to make a big commitment with this weekend date idea.

The Talent: Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, the duo behind another Sundance hit about infiltrating potentially threatening organizations Sound of My Voice, is back at it, with Marling co-writing with director Batmanglij and with a bigger budget to boot.

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

For example, at Big Picture Learning schools throughout the country, internships in local businesses and nonprofit organizations are integrated into the regular school week.

For Assistant Professor Ebony Bridwell - Mitchell, this means looking at three big external forces, or institutional pressures, that influence organizations: regulatory pressure, normative pressure, and mimetic pressure.

So it's not too big a stretch for either organization to dip deeper into the K — 12 curriculum and assessment business, and it's no stretch at all for their chief test - administration partners — Pearson in the case of ACT, ETS for the College Board.

To that end, Anthony Nguyen, my communications associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, searched far and wide to compile a big list of people and organizations that might vie for this year's honors.

«Teachers can make a big difference in the lives of kids by doing really simple things,» says Joel Baum, director of education and training at Gender Spectrum, a national organization that helps schools create gender - inclusive spaces for all kids.

Andy Smarick, a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit education reform organization, said Mr. Cuomo was unusual among current and recent Democratic governors of big states in his fidelity to reform priorities, noting that Martin O'Malley, the departing governor of Maryland, and Deval L. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, were closer to teachers» unions.

The organization that the authors provide around big ideas at the grade level can really help your students see the bigger picture.

There are a bunch of reasons to gracefully wind up the organization at this point: structurally it has always been too loose and decentralized for the current funding climate, and the expanded reach of many of its principles has come through new organizations like Expeditionary Learning, Big Picture Learning, High Tech High, and Deeper Learning.