Sentences with word «businessperson»

Parents will have little or no voice once a school is turned into a charter; most charter school boards are made up of businesspeople who do not have children in the school,

The crucial difference with congestion pricing is that the people most directly affected are those who drive to work in the central business district of cities, such as businesspeople with access to office parking.

This week on Need to Know Rochester, WXXI and it's Voice of the Voter initiative take you to a forum examining the election issues that are top priority for businesspeople in the region.

More than two - thirds of LinkedIn's traffic comes from mobile devices and its dedicated smartphone app has been a ubiquitous instalment for businesspeople for many years.

According to Sheinbaum, SCORE connects you with retired businesspeople with experience in your market.

Ma, who served on Liaoning's People's Congress before resigning at the weekend, is described by Chinese media as the most successful businessperson in Dandong involved in cross-border trade with North Korea.

Most propane providers are good businesspeople who are not going to allow them to be put at a competitive disadvantage by bottom - feeders who would exploit the problem caused by our recent cold weather.»

I know many businesspeople who say to me, «Don't tell people I'm a good golfer.»

«I felt like businesspeople needed to understand how much value they were creating in the world — that they were good people,» Mackey explains.

An independent judging panel comprised of local businesspeople will complete judging of the finalists.

Most small businesspeople don't spend sufficient money on advertising.

Networking with other businesspeople at luncheons (see your local papers for dates and times).

• Hulk director Louis Leterrier is slated to direct «Strays,» a story of a group of young businesspeople on a trip to Russia who mysteriously wake up in an abandoned radioactive city.

Mr. Welch has worked as a small businessperson in the printing, office supplies, advertising, retail, coworking and management consulting fields.

Skillset is a word on the tip of every operator's tongue, and we've taken a stellar line - up of successful businesspeople from both inside and outside of the sector to deliver workforce development opportunities that cater for that demand.»

But for all his bluster and self - proclaimed success at accumulating wealth (with some obvious mixed results), does Mr. Trump really reflect how most businesspeople operate?

I'm often asked by businesspeople how much time should they dedicate to writing blog posts.

The same names keep being bandied about — the Bella Andres, the Hugh Howeys, the Barbara Freethys — but there are an ever - increasing number of authors who are not only pleased with their self - publishing decisions, but they're being hailed as savvy businesspeople for not being tricked into turning over their entire livelihoods to the traditional model and its sad royalty share.

Smart businesspeople like Buffett and Bill Gates know better than to focus too hard on the immediate past or the immediate future.

And local efforts at changing that are not at all helped by businesspeople from affluent countries — with supposedly sophisticated markets and best - in - class business practices — show up with briefcases full of cash.

After obtaining his bosses» approval, Glickman wrote the callback - service provider to propose that it let him serve as what he called a «cocktail - party rep» — that is, someone who pitches the service to businesspeople at social gatherings.

If knowledge is power, then it's what businesspeople need to achieve the professional goals found at the finish line.

Every good businessperson knows how to pivot, and taking a timeout from entrepreneurship doesn't mean you're giving up.

And part is surely attributable to corporate downsizing, which has provided a cadre of experienced businesspeople such as Grant to undertake the building of new companies.

Here's the rub: independent businesspeople make capital investments in their businesses.

For the Record is a listing to help businesspeople in New York find opportunities, potential new clients and updates on customers.

As a remedy, Mitra, a serial entrepreneur and Silicon Valley strategy consultant, tried a series of teleconferences, the next of which will happen on September 15, to answer questions of enterprising young businesspeople from Ireland to Brazil.

NCN freelance lawyers are independent businesspeople who set their own rates.

Ever wonder what businesspeople think of their lawyers?

I approach this area not as a technology vendor or solutions salesperson but as a small businessperson working daily in the trenches.

But when businesspeople in my training programs are asked to do a self - assessment about how much time they lose to interruptions, they routinely come up with three to five hours a day.

During a business trip in Brussels and against a backdrop of increasing urbanization and business travel, Mr Dixon noticed that many travelling businesspeople were forced to work out of hotels and cafés rather than professional business environments.

Yet many businesspeople go through the week eating and drinking things that they haven't really thought through.

That means Amazon pays far less in taxes than both independent booksellers and retail chain bookstores that are based in the UK, a fact that has left many citizens and businesspeople alike wondering why their government allows it to continue.

If businesspeople behaved in the exemplary fashion she described, then her philosophy would be much more palatable to people.

Most C - level employees have rotund LinkedIn profiles, but even the most successful businesspeople often miss key strategies for fully optimizing their online brands.

Good businesspeople also strive to strike fair and stable business deals, ones where everyone wins.

An Izakaya is a Japanese restaurant / bar popular among businesspeople for the Far East version of Happy Hour.

«When I asked fellow businesspeople about donations for the silent auction, it became clear how broadly based the public is in their opposition to the sale.

Case studies are some of the most effective content marketing tactics, which is why businesspeople from every industry constantly ask for feedback and quotes from clients.

This is true even when the client is a sophisticated businessperson like Rappaport.

Ever receive an email from an Africa - based businessperson whose spouse recently died and they need your help to move the inheritance money to a North American bank?

The Bank of England was founded as a private institution by a group of wealthy businesspeople who agreed to lend # 1.2 m to the government.

He was no longer turned on by a woman who was a «businessperson rather than a wife,» according to his book.

There are many other examples of this success formula, but there are far more where there is a seasoned businessperson who has domain expertise leading the company, and a strong technical team driving product development.