Chances are you have a super
big meeting with a «big guy» from your company, who ironically isn't a big guy at all, but a 4» 2 man in his late 50's who has an ego the size of Jupiter and speaks 5 different languages, all of which you can't understand.
Or was there
a big meeting with rolling eyes and people saying that breastfeeding is natural and moms shouldn't be told to stop?
A huge presentation to a room filled with impressive and accomplished professionals;
a big meeting with your boss; a pitch to get funding for your new business; a networking event filled with people you've been dying to meet.
You have
a big meeting with a potential client, but you only have a few minutes to make a great first impression.
Well, this morning was
the big meeting with the development office.
Yesterday I was at
a big meeting with some of the best agents in Los Angeles.
Not exact matches
You can
meet with clients without having to absorb the expensive travel costs and, for
bigger companies, train staff without having to deploy people around the country or globe.
When a woman talks about her
big job at Hypermegaglobalcorp, it's too often
met with a stare that says, «Oh, so that's why the homework isn't getting done, and your kids look like rug rats.»
The best strategy is to let the board member ask his or her question, write it down, tell them it's a good question and one you're happy to spend time
with them explaining after the
meeting but that your goal for today is to address the
bigger issue of X.
You're on your way to work
with your perfectly styled hair, ready for that
big client
meeting... and suddenly you're not sure if you remembered to turn off your hair straightener.
I
met recently
with a woman in her 50s who owns her own company that furnishes and decorates high - end businesses, like
big law firms.
As the viewers, we got to «
meet» charismatic young people
with raw talent and live vicariously though them as they lived out their
biggest dream.
Lancaster explains why he's not a
big incentive - pay fan, citing various bonus plans he's used that
met with less - than - stellar success.
But first let's explore what she considers the
biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when pitching their products: failing to
meet directly
with a buyer.
Meeting with accountants and attorneys in the free office space downtown rather than at his home, he says, «made a
big difference.»
«There's nothing worse than going for lunch and getting to your afternoon
meeting with big pit stains under your arms,» says Melissa Austria, founder of Toronto - based menswear clothing store Gotstyle.
Prior to any
meeting [
with big food companies], I was so nervous that they're assholes, better than us, arrogant, they're going to eat us, they want me fired.
Sacca, who in a December Recode story loudly criticized leaders from tech's
biggest companies for
meeting with the president, tweeted that he could barely keep up
with the response and continued to increase the amount he said he would donate.
For starters, building any business has to start
with four key parts - the Dream, Vision, Purpose, and Mission and within those lie every goal your company will ever need to
meet - the
big ones, the small ones, and every one in between.
Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a
big protest vote,
with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual
meeting,
with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.
«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.»
Keeping an eye on trends and adopting new, relevant shipping methods will not only help improve customer satisfaction, but it will also help small business owners
meet their bottom lines and compete
with the
big dogs.
I won't look at my inbox until I've completed one
big - picture, time - intensive task — which I will choose ahead of time and block out on my calendar as if it were a
meeting with myself.
Since everyone now has data at their fingertips, he's
big on face - to - face
meetings with CEOs.
The
big boys like Naked Brands boasted monstrous McMansions in the form of customized booths that rose floor to ceiling
with meeting rooms on the second floor where dealmakers could escape the sea of people flooding the floor.
Part of the territory that comes
with having a hit TV show is that everyone who
meets me asks how I made it
big in real estate.
We all find ways to
meet these — whether by working harder, coming up
with a
big problem, or creating stories to rationalize them.
Instead of doing 1:1
meetings with every 22 - 29 year old that is interested in entrepreneurship, I can create this daily vlog and actually show, how a real operator and CEO has built a
big business.
Varadkar still hopes to
meet with U.S. President Donald Trump next March in Washington, saying links between the two countries are
bigger than any prime minister or president.
But the movement's
biggest strides are increasingly taking place in
meetings with CEOs at some of the world's
biggest companies.
They provide all of us
with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something
bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to
meet new people; and a way to pass time.
Meetings with big decision - makers can be hard to come by, so get your software in the hands of employees and hope they spread the word.
Whether you're attending a wedding, heading into the office for a particularly
big meeting, or just dressing up for a night of cocktails
with friends, a top - tier pair of dress shoes can help make your look pop.
«The
biggest thing for me was the constant
meetings with others to talk about how achieving certain milestones would get us closer to our goals,» she remembers.
Morgan I had
met socially and he was a
big fan of Westerns and he... When I called him up I said would you like to do a Western
with me and he said yeah, I love it, I love Westerns.
The association
with the show even helped smooth talks
with a group of
big - ticket clients, helping to break the ice during an initial
meeting.
It adds layers of obligations, regulations, costs, and pressures to the already challenging daily grind of running a business, not to mention hundreds of hours of planning,
meetings with bankers and lawyers, and travel in preparation for the
biggest event in the company's history.
Investors and analysts
met Comcast's offer for Europe's
biggest pay - TV broadcaster
with some skepticism, sending Comcast shares down 6 percent on Tuesday.
The high - kick helps
with this, like right before I going in to do a
big major, mega, mega pitch, I do a high - kick right as I'm about to open the door to the
meeting room.
In a
meeting with the heads of Silicon Valley's
biggest tech companies, Trump suggested he might increase the application fees to discourage businesses from bulk filing.
Trump
meets with big pharma CEOs and issues a list of demands.
The
big difference is that while many people watch these speakers, few of them gather the courage to ask to
meet with them.
A version of this article appears in the April 2018 issue of Fortune
with the headline «
Big Data
Meets Biology.»
If you're left out of
meetings, rarely get face time
with upper management, and have never even heard of the
big project everyone else is so excited about, that could mean that your bosses just see you as a body filling a desk, rather than as a valuable contributor.
President Trump
met with big health insurance CEOs.
Health IT and electronic medical records specialist Allscripts» chief executive is out
with a new op - ed in Healthcare IT News, ahead of this year's HIMSS conference (the
biggest health tech and digital infrastructure
meeting of the year).
Helping someone
meet his or her goals is one of the best ways to build strong relationships, and your relationships
with others in your space play a
big role in your success.
Very calm and calculated
with a
big focus on open and fair trade
with China, the coming North Korea
meeting and, of course, the vicious gas attack in Syria.
The
meeting was pushed up to coincide
with Xi's visit and some say distract from the
bigger issues raised on the U.S. side.
The more senior the host, the more pronounced the ensuing share - price outperformance:
meetings with the president yield the
biggest «positive abnormal returns».