Sentences with phrase «back talk in»

When faced with back talk in public, don't be intimidated into being a pushover (or a taskmaster, for that matter).

• What if there were no more back talk in your family because your kids knew how to express their desires respectfully and to accept no for an answer gracefully.

I would do a hypnosis show and have Christians at the back talking in tongues and trying to exorcise me.

Not exact matches

Uber also faces a challenge we talked about earlier: Since they're aiming to disrupt an established industry, a very regulated industry, one with close ties to municipalities, other companies can not only come back at them, they can call in regulations to make it even harder for Uber.

If you're not talking about something relevant in a given moment, think of how you could connect the current topic of conversation back to the one that sparked the conversation initially.

In this hangout, editorial director Ray Hennessey talks with branding and customer experience experts Karen Leland of Sterling Marketing Group and Brad Smith of Sage North America about how to come back when your company's reputation takes a hit.

One day as the morning sun pours through the windows of a conference room at headquarters, Smith leans back in an office chair and swivels the empty one to his right with a free hand as he talks.

Even apart from the fact that they don't know what they're talking about because they don't know what's out there, the bigger issues are that: (a) almost all of these reports come back with a variety of related findings that may be precisely on point; and (b) the very age of the prior research may be invaluable if the new questions and inquiries have to do with trend lines, changes in attitudes or different behaviors.

Forty - one percent of remote workers in one study said they felt their colleagues talked about them behind their backs.

We act like the interview is done, then call them back in and have them go over everyone they met, including their names and what they talked about.

According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg swooped in on Tencent's talks to acquire WhatsApp while Ma was recovering from back surgery.

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«Back then, professors wouldn't even have projectors in the rooms,» Baker recalls of his experiences talking to teachers about education software.

«While others are just talking, we are delivering our energy plan, making South Australia more self - sufficient, and providing back - up power and more affordable energy for South Australians this summer,» Jay Weatherhill, South Australia's premier, said in a statement Thursday.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff acknowledged in 2016 that he backed away from deal talks with Twitter after investors protested.

But here's the key: If you're in a conversation at a work - related function or meeting someone to talk business for the first time, your best move is not to ask work - or business - related questions; it's to discover common ties with that person that will steer the conversation back to the «work stuff,» but with a deeper connection.

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As I began talking, I realized that people sitting in the back of the auditorium couldn't see my technology.

To avoid something like a missed deadline, get back to the basics: Spend some one - on - one time with each person to talk through the steps involved in a project after you give out work assignments.

Such talk once seemed paranoid, but in light of Edward Snowden's allegations that intelligence agencies used back doors to snoop on people and governments, it's hard to dismiss it as such anymore.

Microsoft first started talking publicly about Oslo back in March.

Echoing the sentiments she shared last week on their daytime talk show, Ripa gave her co - host / friend a proverbial pat on the back, saying, «Mark came in town for 12 hours and this is how we're spending it.

I know this may sound crazy, but we traced when the ice broke in regard to the settlement talks back to around the time I started speaking in a more gentile, Southern manner.

Guillaume was on the TV, talking on a food channel, so I got back in touch with him, and we started planning a business.

In it, Vanderkam talks to the über - busy and supersuccessful, and gathers research on what sorts of weekends are actually best for battling burnout to ensure you're ready to head back to business on Monday morning.

Keen also finds inspiration in the United States, talking to «hacktivist» coders in Oakland and recounting the visionary ideas of John Borthwick, who founded the startup incubator Betaworks, and who offers an action plan to wrest back control of our digital lives.

They excel at turning a boring presentation into something people will talk about in the hallway and even on the ride back to the office.

The Commerce secretary did not say whether he wanted to come back with a deal in hand, but expressed some optimism about the talks.

«Back in the 1980s, actually, I gave my first talk at TED,» says Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist, writer and pioneer of virtual reality.

The answer to my initial query was, «Dave's not doing any talking at the moment but let's keep in touch once he's out of the studio and ready to get back in front of a different kind of mic.»

But anyway, so we talked a lot about whales and we said, «When you go whale watching and a whale breaches, a whale jumps up above the water, everybody oohs and aahs and takes pictures of it and talks about «Oh, look at the whale,» and then the whale goes back under water for like 45 minutes, and it's the most boring thing in the world.

A while back, Sam Richards gave a TED Talk called A Radical Experiment in Empathy.

That's up sharply from the 44 % who said the same back in May, when the outlook for the Brexit talks was looking slightly less dire.

While in the same breath he talks about «Putting America First» - which to some sounds like a return to U.S. isolationism - Trump makes it clear he has big plans to write a whole new chapter of the nation's war on terrorism, which dates back to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.

What we can't stop obsessing about is whether New Yorkers are going to talk to each other in the back of an Uber?

So while it's understandable the state of manufacturing is of concern to presidential candidates, those who say they can bring back lost jobs in the sector either don't know what they are talking about, or are being disingenuous.

Asper took a break from the pre-UFC 129 fan expo to talk to me about why he thinks mixed martial arts» mainstream time has come, why he's back in the CEO seat again, where he hopes to lead Fight Network and more.

He had recently returned from a trade show in Taipei and, as we talked in the factory's nondescript boardroom, he painstakingly brewed some green tea that he brought back with him.

Halliburton is in late - stage talks to acquire a fast - growing U.S. oilfield equipment supplier backed by Oklahoma energy and banking billionaire George Kaiser, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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As David Thomas, the senior director of industry research at BIO, explained to me a while back, one the law's major provisions ensured that «companies could go and talk to investors more than one time, and not in a very formal setting like it had been structured before.»

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

Talking about your pay is one extremely simple way to close the gaps, as Quartz editor Meredith Bennett - Smith noted back in April.

I worked as a journalist for The Financial Times in Silicon Valley and I remember even back then that if you played along and if a story followed a company's talking points you were fine.

Back in July 2012 at the CNBC - Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference, Ackman talked about the big stake he took in Procter & Gamble and then pushed for management changes.

Because as much as Gossip the book is about the popularization of back - fence talk and the search for a reason why one of the world's most compelling pastimes is so pleasurable, it's also about admitting that people just can't keep secrets; they don't want to, and we might as well embrace the fact that they'll keep fewer and fewer in the future unless we collectively settle on some new etiquette.

«In a lot of stories you read, it regresses back to happy talk at the end — there was a problem, we solved it and now it's all fixed,» says Michael Freeman, a psychiatrist who is studying the personality traits of entrepreneurs at University of California, San Francisco.

LONDON, March 27 - Global oil traders Vitol and Glencore are in talks to financially back Nigerian firms racing to buy assets owned by Brazil's Petrobras valued at up to $ 2 billion, several sources familiar with the matter said.

And he has backed efforts to bring Iran to the table for future peace talks in Afghanistan.

But while West would never have reached the heights he has without the talent to back it up, the incident proves that West also knows the value of trash talking, bad publicity and being it in the right place at the right time.