Sentences with phrase «boardrooms as»

While Microsoft, Apple and Google also offer voice assistants in the form of Cortana, Siri and Google Assistant, at this time only Amazon is actively working to bring voice into boardrooms as well as homes, with Amazon's chief technology officer and vice-president Werner Vogel stating «Voice represents the next major disruption in computing.»

It was during this time that some rainmaker lawyers were propelled into the boardrooms as large corporations enlisted their help to formulate legal strategy in titanic takeover battles.

The pressure has catapulted climate risk to the top of the agenda in many of Canada's boardrooms as companies grapple with how to measure, mitigate and disclose potential liabilities.

I am happy that Disney took what I'm sure was deemed in boardrooms as «a risk» by giving Lightning a female racing trainer... who eventually becomes his protégé.

If the «Moral Majority / Religious Right» was as concerned with what goes on in America's boardrooms as it is with what goes on in America's bedrooms, we probably wouldn't be in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression!

Long the domain of corporate executives, investor relations is starting to extend beyond the C - suite into boardrooms as shareholders seek access to independent directors and a clear process for interaction on issues of governance.

And when Tellier left CN to run Bombardier in 2003, Harrison proved he had what it takes to efficiently run boardrooms as well as trains.

Tanium recently released the results of a survey centered on cybersecurity expertise in corporate boardrooms as well.

And it's going to help you in business, be it by a mixture of accounts on other corporate successes or failures and lessons on lean startups, or a 2,500 - year - old military tome that works just as well in boardrooms as war.

We targeted current leaders, since they exert direct, measurable sway beyond their own boardrooms as they steer their companies to respond to big - picture external conditions: the economy, politics, technology, markets and customers.

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

The inertia in the boardroom as far as dealing with the problem is a bit of a mystery.

And it's part of a movement that is gaining ground in both classroom and boardroom as America comes to terms with the implications of the information revolution.

Its modern silhouette gives the Angel a versatile quality that sees it work just as well in the boardroom as it would at a wedding.

As a direct result of this expanded role, GCs are also increasingly accepted within the boardroom as business partners with broad legal knowledge.

Kristi Kaufman, a native Oregonian, moved to Bend in 1997 and has two decades of experience as a tough negotiator in the courtroom and boardroom as a real estate and business lawyer.

Not exact matches

While members have to sell 500 boxes of cookies to sit on the committee, the boardroom meeting is not just about their personal sales: The participating scouts are asked to collaborate and come up with ways to help the organization as a whole.

When you're looking across a boardroom table at whatever collection of rumpled dreamers and smug hipsters made it this far, fall in love with who they are together, not what you think you as a business leader can make them do.

«Today, my gift to you is this — the future of equine fashion,» he says, as a horse wearing a pair of pants on his hind legs trots into the boardroom.

There are lessons here in boardrooms and executive suites as well.

As I have argued previously, independent directors bring objectivity and an external perspective into the boardroom.

If you think about his statement above, it is genuinely a profound insight that resonated back in that classroom years ago as well as the boardroom today.

For larger families with more than one generation of siblings and spouses, the office often acts as the boardroom from which clients direct investing decisions and other financial endeavours such as philanthropy.

Physics is usually not introduced as a business topic: while gravity, acceleration, and friction may take turns metaphorically coloring our executive summaries and quarterly reports, we don't discuss literal omnipresent rules of the physical universe in any given boardroom.

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.

However, the importance of having Peter in place as the Technical Director, providing focus and a direct channel from the boardroom table to the work on the ground in Bougainville, has resulted in this change ahead of further appointments.»

At a time when working women must still fight for equal pay, outperform to be taken seriously in the boardroom, and hustle over the mere fraction of all investment spending open to them, a Trump presidency is seen as a blow for many.

And that goes for families as well as boardrooms.

The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.

We're particularly keen on the line's straight and double - breasted suits, as well as its three - button jackets in tones of grey, navy, chrome green and black, perfect for the boardroom look.

Although the board recently unilaterally appointed three new directors and indicated its intention to add more new directors in the coming months, I do not believe these steps go far enough toward changing «business as usual» in Wynn's boardroom.

The path to fulfillment as a corporate leader doesn't run through the boardroom; it runs through others.

As always our events are held at fantastic venues - we welcome you to the boardroom of The Alex Hotel for Social Media Perth's seminar «Facebook Marketing - Advertising, Analytics & Content Basics».

Aside from shaking up the boardroom, the pension board is also developing a reputation as a global player that has the cash to swing large deals, and the wherewithal and sophistication to get them done fast.

This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom.

Whether it's selling your company's product in the boardroom or selling yourself on eating healthy, everything in life can and should be treated as a sale.

New research from Audeliss suggests Britain's boardrooms risk going into reverse gear over the next 18 months, as the terms of current female non-executive directors expire.

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Hampton — who has had a career spanning investment banking, and boardroom positions as a finance director and as chairman of supermarket chain Sainsbury's — had promised to stay until Ross McEwan, who replaced Hester last October, had settled in.

Making time for innovation as an ongoing topic of boardroom conversation is a luxury few board members feel they have.

As well, the U.K. rule changes demand that corporate boards give greater voice to employees at the boardroom table.

I guess the lesson of Travis Kalanick's resignation as chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. is that you can be the visionary founder of a massive company, stay private to avoid the pressures of the public market, keep control of a majority of the voting power of the shares, and still be forced out in a boardroom coup led by activist shareholders:

He replaces Xavier Rolet who stood down as LSE chief in LSE last year following a public boardroom battle.

The boardroom trends that are «hot» right now, says Richard Leblanc, associate professor in law, governance and ethics at York University, are those that are examining «over-boarded [and] over-tenured directors,» as well as tackling board diversity and experience.

«Just as portfolio managers and analysts are increasingly integrating ESG factors into their investment processes, those professionals responsible for their firms» proxy voting policies and, ultimately their actual proxy votes, also need insights into how these issues are being managed within the boardroom.

As esoteric as the term may be outside of corporate boardrooms, among central bankers forward guidance has become Carney's trademark invention, and is credited for much of the country's strong economic performance throughout the financial crisiAs esoteric as the term may be outside of corporate boardrooms, among central bankers forward guidance has become Carney's trademark invention, and is credited for much of the country's strong economic performance throughout the financial crisias the term may be outside of corporate boardrooms, among central bankers forward guidance has become Carney's trademark invention, and is credited for much of the country's strong economic performance throughout the financial crisis.

The proposalwas pitched as a way to ensure director accountability after the boardroom spying fiasco involving former Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and several senior HP employees.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

As such, the quality of leadership in the corner offices and boardrooms can not be overstated.

I might as well have burst into a boardroom and prattled on about bigfoot.