Sentences with phrase «business colleague who»

That Monday, sitting at his desk refreshed and recharged, he got a call from an old business colleague who'd heard about the property, and who offered R11k on the spot.

We're grateful to our business colleagues who keep the trains running on time.

Just as destiny brings a family together, the Careers Plus Team formed through a long history of friendships and business colleagues who crossed paths at the right moments in time.

Not exact matches

After quitting his job, he came across an old colleague who was thriving as a franchise owner of a mobile pet - grooming business.

The Spades had cashed out of their business in 2006, and shortly afterward, Spade and longtime friend and colleague Anthony Sperduti, who had been an art director at Kate Spade and Jack Spade, started working on a variety of branding and art projects together, eventually creating their own branding studio, Partners & Spade.

He gets paid to dispense financial legal advice to millionaires and vividly remembers one colleague who didn't listen to him — and lost $ 40 million on a business deal.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

These can be neighbors who will watch your kids in a pinch, friends who promote your business, or past colleagues who are willing to introduce you to valuable contacts.

I, for one, hope it succeeds — for the sake of all of us who are ready to think bigger and build businesses together, regardless of where our ideal colleagues happen to be located.

A mechanical engineer by training, Burns, who proved herself a quick study and an outspoken colleague, blew through the ranks — taking on product development, business planning and a series of managerial roles that in 2000 put her at the center of Xerox's restructuring efforts.

An estimated 75 % of HR departments are required to Google candidates during the hiring process - and that's in addition to your future colleagues, clients and business partners who will be looking you up.

«I was surprised, because I wouldn't have known she had any contact with Trump,» a former colleague of Hendon's from the US attorney's office, who requested anonymity to speak freely about the case, told Business Insider, adding: «She's very smart.

NPS is «perhaps the best - known customer - loyalty tool around today, based on the entirely sound principle that the more customer promotersyou have (i.e., customers who say on surveys that they're highly likely to refer you to a colleague or friend), the more likely you'll be to grow your business and outpace the competition,» writes customer - engagement expert Bill Lee for the HBR Blog Network.

In 2000, Mr. Greenberg admitted in an arbitration proceeding that he had phoned someone who did a lot of business with a colleague and told him, inaccurately, that the colleague was known for shady business practices, according to a record of the proceeding.

These people can explain your business to their friends, family or colleagues — people they trust and who trust them.

Some of my female colleagues who are business executives shared with me the following three factors that hinder a woman's ability to advance in business:

Wired evidently had no trouble finding former colleagues to say nice things about him, with the consensus being that he's very Bill Gates - like: a technical genius who also happens to understand the business side of things.

For anyone who travels for business, it may not be too surprising that your Canadian colleagues say their biggest pet peeves include expense reporting and waiting in line.

Until you have a proper discussion, you won't really know if the investor is a good fit or can refer you to a colleague who would be a good fit for your business.

Whoever takes the CEO role will be ably assisted by my former Harvard Business School colleague, Frances Frei, who recently joined Uber in charge of leadership and business deveBusiness School colleague, Frances Frei, who recently joined Uber in charge of leadership and business devebusiness development.

«Dealing with someone like Andrew is invaluable because his depth of knowledge and expertise reaches across such a huge array of people and businesses,» says former colleague Howard Davis, who is now a managing director at the Shemano Group, a San Francisco investment bank that provides services for small and midsize companies.

If you look at your professional company — the other co-workers, colleagues, business owners and industry professionals that you most often interact with — who are they, what do they stand for and what do they say about you?

Ackerly launched his business with several former NSA colleagues and his brother John, who had worked on tech policy in the George W. Bush administration.

The City of Calgary encourages all Calgarians to look to their neighbours, colleagues, community leaders and local organizations or businesses for those who could qualify as recipients of the Calgary Awards.

On a recent interview I did, I had the pleasure of speaking with a friend and colleague who is a genius at building business relationships.

If you have a friend, colleague who is starting their own business, and you found one of these post-mortems useful, please share this with them.

Our columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and his Times colleagues help you make sense of major business and policy headlines — and the power - brokers who shape them.

For the past 11 years, my colleague Angela Quail and I, through our firm Goal Centric, have been fortunate to work with several Fortune 100 companies who have this transformation underway in portions of their global businesses.

They were led by their not - quite - ministerial colleague Bill Blair, the former Toronto Police Chief who has, in his capacity as a parliamentary secretary with special responsibility for not even remotely messing around, criss - crossed the country looking increasingly stern about this whole pot business.

Speaking at a party retreat, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told his colleagues that the party had spent too much time talking about the concerns of business owners and entrepreneurs and not enough about the concerns of that majority who were not (and in many cases did not want to be) business....

A business colleague of mine, Neil Laughton, who has famously led record - breaking teams (including Bear Grylls) up Everest, told me that as a child, a teacher told him that he would never amount to anything.

«For me, spending time with those who share the same passion and vision in the business and seeing the growth of colleagues through the years never stops amazing me.»

William Grant & Sons launched the annual spirits scholarship in January 2014 to honour much loved former colleague and founder of education and consultancy business, Spirited Solutions, Ian Murray, who passed away in 2013.

A gourmet gift basket stocked with hard - to - find and unique products is the perfect special - occasion gift for anyone who enjoys good food, from the home chef to the business colleague.

Susan RoAne, known as «The Mingling Maven,» has some sound and savvy strategies for those who would prefer to order room service rather than attend the closing gala to network with colleagues and potential business associates.

Also, with a colleague, she runs a business, providing classes for children who are home educated in the Norwich area.

He spent the day with some distinguished young Ghanaian entrepreneurs who have set up their own businesses and employed their colleagues.

Beside that, though, Prince's tweet is funny because it's essentially directed at Josh Isay, who is Christine Quinn's longtime consultant and strategist and, as my colleague Dana Rubinstein noted, Prince's former business partner.

In materials distributed to the audience at the debate, Ms. Burke - Gonzalez, who prior to serving on the town board was a nine - year member of the Springs School Board, wrote that she is proud of «how I have worked with my colleagues on the town board to return civility, dignity, and respect to the business of the board.»

Woodward's attempt to present the concern as an issue troubling only a minority of MPs was followed by Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, seen as Brown's deputy prime minister in all but name, who issued a statement through a spokesman in which he stressed that the prime minister «continues to have the support of his colleagues».

«Look, it's job creation, it's about the quality of residents and existing businesses and visitors for upstate New York and I believe a lot of my colleagues will work together to come up with the right framework for consumer protection and making sure the companies are held responsible,» said Sen. George Amedore, a Republican who represents a district west and south of Albany.

Officials from nearby towns were there, as were old business colleagues of State Senator Tom Libous, who chatted politely with Astorino on the elevated head table.

«I hear it from not only constituents and business owners, I hear it — oddly enough — from my own colleagues in the New York State Assembly,» said Assemblyman John T. McDonald III, an Albany Democrat who co-sponsored a bill on ride - sharing this year.

Rather than address legitimate concerns, A Crestwood executive sent an email to colleagues in June 2013 pushing for withholding local propane deliveries to the more than 200 local business owners who expressed opposition.

Councilman Hoehmann began his remarks by thanking many of those who had stood by him in his career particularly his wife, children and siblings, the support he had received from his Rotarian and business colleagues, and in particular how much he missed the support of his mentor and friend, Bob Zeiss, who died on Christmas Day 2014.

Mr. Aliu Abdulai of the CPP said flag bearer of the party, Green Street was a person with disability whose colleagues in that position suffer some sorts of discriminations and he will ensure that women who also suffer in that categories are given the best treatment especially those into farming business.

A colleague recently interviewed Charles Handy of the London Business School, who writes about how work patterns and society are changing and can be expected to change as we progress (or as we hope we progress).

Bayati and his colleagues — Hamsa Bastani, a PhD candidate at Stanford's Electrical Engineering Department; and Joel Goh, a former Stanford graduate student who is now a Harvard Business School professor — argue that a more effective solution is to increase the mandatory reporting and expand the use of targeted auditing.

I also want to thank our scientific colleagues and the coalition of community members, educators, businesses, unions, political leaders, and stakeholders in Hawaii who have brought us to the point of the granting of the CDUP.

But it's true that it's much more difficult to balance the «business» with the «casual» for women — I'm sure I spend a lot more time on this than my many male colleagues who rock the button down / jeans look!