Sentences with phrase «at building a consensus»

In this case, they proved not so good at building a consensus.

«She sat on that board for as long as she did because she was really good at building consensus across different parties and factions within the education community.

He was also known for his skill at building consensus among members of the Federal Open Market Committee on policy issues.

The following details come from a new Wall Street Journal article... - Mr. Kimishima sees his successor as someone good at building consensus among all employees rather than relying on a few «geniuses» - had been eyeing Mr. Furukawa for years as a future CEO - Mr. Furukawa on Nintendo: «should focus on things that only we can provide.

- Mr. Kimishima sees his successor as someone good at building consensus among all employees rather than relying on a few «geniuses»

Not exact matches

Bain claims it now builds consensus at all management levels of a client company and encourages line managers rather than Bain consultants to present reports to the chief executive.

In effect, many of the basic economic and ideological conflicts of the country were built into the commission from the outset, and the process of writing a report inevitably became an effort at consensus building.

And I think at least to some extent, the fact that we had built a collegial consensus initially gained me some more leeway to what we had to do during the crisis.

Now I think that was helpful in building capital — personal capital — because at times during the crisis we had to act more quickly without taking the time to build consensus.

Belshe concedes «it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time.

And while unanimity is a long and painful form of consensus to build, if the Ecumenical Patriarch were to take that approach — or at least recognize its validity — he would set his council, and his primacy, on much surer footing.

Gross was involved in the project, which helped «implement activities in support of the rule of law and human rights, political competition, and consensus building, and to strengthen civil society in support of just and democratic governance in Cuba,» according to a statement from DAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard at the time of Gross» arrest.

An attempt at consensus - building regarding social ethics is one of contemporary evangelicalism's most critical tasks, but it will not prove an easy one to accomplish.

As IIS often highlighted it, the UN consensus - building exercise of the 1990s, which set the framework in which global governance operates today, hijacked humanity's universal aspirations at the end of the Cold War.

At this point, Palin will do anything to stay in the spotlight, even though she has lost all credibility as a woman of tolerance and intellect that can build consensus.

The convenient and specious separation of form and content in worship often lies at the heart of the broader Evangelical movement as a means of facilitating inter-church alliances and building consensus has, I suspect, spilled over into other Christian traditions too.

This time, however, the district arrived at the proposal through a careful process of community consensus building, including the creation of a 45 - member citizens advisory committee.

They have also become adept at coalition building and careful not to move beyond or ahead of the consensus of «centrist» political opinion.

The idea is to try and build consensus and get input from reformers before the governor goes public with his reform agenda at the State of the State / budget address on Jan. 13th.

Richard Mabey: The Government should look again at the 2009 HS2 plans to build a cross-party consensus for a better route

Instead of dilly - dallying, a government that genuinely intends to bring about reform should instead be using its energies to build political consensus to tackle these issues at the earliest.

«This is democracy at work,» he said, adding that he believed the decision not to prioritise Brexit for debate was motivated by «a feeling that there needs to be a bit more consensus - building, rather than dividing the party at the moment».

Even in these marginal seats where two - party competition is at its most antagonistic, respondents were comfortable with the more collaborative and consensus - building politics common to multi-party politics.

«The Programme aims to enhance engagements between state and non-state actors to build consensus around identified urban development priorities and amplify Africa's voice at the global level towards HABITAT III.

We the Civil Society understands Democracy to practically mean fairness, social equality, accountability and consensus building to benefit citizens at the grassroots.

The row broke out after the chancellor said on Sunday he favoured an extra runway, which could be built at Heathrow, and would seek a cross-party consensus to back the controversial move.

When the need arises we meet as frequent as we should be meeting and at such meetings issues of concerns are brought to the fore for discussions, consensus is built around a lot of issues before they are rolled out to the public,» said Dzakpasu.

«The goal of this project is to help build consensus around a shared set of facts about gun policy by demonstrating where scientific evidence is accumulating,» said Andrew Morral, the project's leader and a behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

The Globes come at a delicate point in awards season, just as consensus, or even a sense of inevitability, is building around certain prospective Oscar victors — but their timing, especially in the condensed awards season of recent years, means they don't always catch the wave.

If you are successful, at the end of Step 2 you will have built a community consensus around a shared vision for 21st century education.

Building consensus: Future directions for research on English Language Learners at - risk for learning difficulties.

Achieving those results, however, will require the support of higher education not only throughout the development of theexams but also into their full implementation.As a first step toward encouraging higher education systems to endorse and base judgments aboutstudents» college readiness on the new assessments, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundationand Lumina Foundation requested the National Center for Higher Education ManagementSystems (NCHEMS) to identify the conditions that help build consensus between K - 12 andpostsecondary systems at a state level.

«Cooperation, collaboration, and consensus - building are way overrated,» Rhee said at the Aspen Institute's education summit in 2008.

Traci is an experienced analyst, skilled at leading teams through understanding qualitative and quantitative data and building consensus for improvement initiatives.

«Collaboration and consensus - building are quite frankly overrated in my mind» (from Alec's comment at # 4) That doesn't rub you the wrong way at all?

We anticipate a final version of the community school implementation standards within the next several months, followed by a similar discussion and consensus - building process around systems infrastructures (e.g. district, county, state, federal level) to support development, implementation and sustainability of at - scale community school strategies.

School leaders should examine state - level Title I decisions with an eye toward how they will impact your district at a local level as well as for how these decisions provide opportunities for collaboration and consensus building.

«Keep consensus - building with the OEMs and bridge that gap between the OEM and the Tier 1,» says Mark Bacchus, group manager - Organic Materials at Toyota's technical center in Ann Arbor.

Looking at market consensus forecast figures helps to provide an indication of the expectations built into the valuation.

Writing in The Weekend Australian today, Judith Curry, professor and chairwoman of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the consensus - building process itself could be a source of bias.

So 20 + years of non-stop alarmist propaganda, gatekeeping, consensus - «building»,..., all at taxpayer expense ($ Billions?)

At the close of the conference last night, Beckett said, «I hope that this conference will be seen as a milestone in building international consensus on climate change.»

The solution has been a comparative and independent evaluation of research results, aimed at building scientific consensus via multidisciplinary expert panels.

The UK's silent consensus to talk about climate — at some later date — simply means those choices will be made without debate, as though huge changes to our infrastructure, buildings, equipment, behaviours and food system can be delivered by a few technocrats working under the radar.

Unfortunately, efforts to build consensus around an innovation - centered approach to climate mitigation have been marred by at least two major mischaracterizations that have muddled the debate.

At a time when so many crucial decisions have been resolved by 5 - 4 votes, the ability to build consensus is a critical factor.

In doing so, Mr. Justice de Montigny − presumably at the suggestion of counsel − considered the historical use of the processes of consensus - building and majority rule by the CRDN.

Part II of the Conference will be action - oriented, building on the discussions at Part I and seeking to establish a consensus on the national coordination of civil justice reform.

«Disappointing everybody is not consensus building,» says Sara Mainville, a partner at Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP and a former chief of the Couchiching First Nation in northwestern Ontario.

Build consensus at the top.