Sentences with phrase «challenging the head of»

The Tesla CEO answered questions boldly and even defiantly at times, at one point going on an anti-media rant and at another point challenging the head of a major competitor.

AG Bobek had used this question to challenge this head of jurisdiction on a principal basis (AG Opinion, paras 73 - 90).

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Canada's tech ecosystem is in rare form, with companies regularly raising nine - figure amounts from investors, and lots of young firms overcoming early challenges to rapidly grow revenue and head count.

And as the age of the Rich 100 creeps ever higher, more of the wealthiest families in Canada will be forced to confront this challenge head - on.

He appointed Scott Pruitt, who has opposed the EPA and has filed numerous lawsuits challenging environmental regulations, as head of the EPA, and has rolled back many of Obama's regulations.

A team under Airbnb's global head of social impact, Kim Rubey, was already working on a program to house refugee relief workers in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia, but to address the product challenge, Gebbia formed a new team under his Samara studio that was ultimately spun out and called the Human team.

Despite these challenges, Nakanishi is confident of surpassing last year's earnings result, noting that the direction the company is heading remains «very appropriate.»

Now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is here to stay for a while, at least, this challenge will come to a head in the form of the Cadillac Tax, as employers brace for a potentially drastic change in the way they offer benefits to their employees.

The question is, when faced with your particular challenge — whether it is researching in a new field, starting a business, producing a film, securing a mentor, advancing an important cause — do you seek the respite of talk or do you face the struggle head - on?

The challenge for companies like Heineken is turning the perception of a zero - alcohol beer as a «distress purchase» on its head.

The tweet, which challenged potential candidates to decrypt a message, came from Alex Batlin, the head of UBS's new tech lab in London's Canary Wharf.

Knowing how to recruit staff, where to recruit them from and how to keep hold of the good ones are all part and parcel of this huge challenge and something that you definitely need to get your head round once you've planned on expansion.

Overcoming the stigma of depression and suicide is a challenge faced by all organisations in the mental health sector, and one that Lifeline WA is tackling head on

The coming changes, disruptions, and new technology solutions as well as the changing demands of your clients and customers are not simply head - on challenges - they're lateral attacks, competitive entries from adjacent markets, and newly - enabled ways of doing business that never existed before.

Shadab Rashid, head of software product and partnerships — and a veteran of BlackBerry — and Ryan Van Stralen, director of community and marketing, sat down to discuss the company's challenges and future.

Ever since golfer Greg Norman challenged NBC's «TODAY» host Matt Lauer to toss an ice bucket over his head in mid-July to raise money for the Hospice of Palm Beach County in Florida, the Ice Bucket Challenge has become a social media and media sensation.

«Google's biggest challenge remains how to penetrate China,» said Elinor Leung, Hong Kong - based head of Asia telecom and internet research at CLSA.

Some Facebook users have already criticized challenge participants for pouring water on their heads instead of donating to the cause.

But to take full advantage of them, you'll need to head into 2016 with your eyes open as to these six disrupting challenges you'll need to confront first.

McKelvey contends that the hands - on experience of working for a startup, and facing those infrastructural challenges head on, actually led him to building WeWork: A space made by and for entrepreneurs.

All of them face the same challenge: to lower the cost of overcoming gravity's pricey pull on people or cargo headed for space.

In 2012, Alex Rice, then Facebook's head of product security, challenged them to find a vulnerability.

Of course, the challenge of doing so is a two - headed coin, with immediate gratification on one side and a lack of human capital investment on the otheOf course, the challenge of doing so is a two - headed coin, with immediate gratification on one side and a lack of human capital investment on the otheof doing so is a two - headed coin, with immediate gratification on one side and a lack of human capital investment on the otheof human capital investment on the other.

Clearly, better problem solving abilities and boosted creativity will only be good for your business career, but if you're still not convinced of the benefits of international travel, a whole host of nomadic entrepreneurs, bloggers, and economics professors (and more economics professors) have expressed why they feel travel is valuable for reasons ranging from conquering fear to heading off future regrets and challenging our bias for the status quo.

... heads - up, no - limit Texas Hold»em represents an especially complex challenge with 10160 possible plays at different stages of the game (possibly more than the number of atoms in the universe).

In theory, delegating work sounds like a fairly easy mantra, but in reality it's a huge challenge for heads of startups and small businesses.

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

While having genetic validation for a target is no guarantee of success — scientists still have to figure out how to drug the target safely and effectively, and meet myriad other biological challenges — it does offer a head start.

If Amazon wants to recruit and retain the best talent, Denver is the optimal place for them because of the growth of our young, motivated, and educated workforce that has been drawn to the city over the past few years... [I] f Amazon decides to make Denver their home for HQ2, it will be challenging to go head to head with them from a recruiting perspective.

MANY women receive unequal treatment when applying for finance, says Challenge Bank head of marketing Melissa Reynolds.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

«Certainly when you take that many pills, the challenge is knowing how much of the benefit is in your head,» says Brent Bauer, M.D., director of the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program.

People like Vinod Khosla, Keith Rabois, Brian Singerman, Marc Andreessen and others have all made head - scratching private comments to me that sounded so foreign to what I thought other people were doing in VC that they caused me to challenge and ultimately change some of my own views.

Standard Chartered's Alex Mason, global head for Transaction Banking and Margaret Harwood - Jones, MD & global head for Securities Services talks with Global Finance Editor Andrea Fiano on how the bank is solving the challenge of delivering an enhanced customer experience by adopting more digital technology solutions.

Simone Del Guerra, Global Head of Transactional Sales at UniCredit discusses the challenges facing correspondent banks, the impact of Swift GPI, instant payments and whether banking is still a people business in the wake of technological advancements.

Christina Padgett, head of leveraged finance at Moody's Investors Service, said liquidity concerns are not a major problem for the high - yield portion of the market now, but there are challenges for the future.

She is also the Head of the Scientific Steering Committee for the Global Challenges Congresses arranged by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and was the chair of the Danish Governments Climate Commission.

Says HR manager Marilyn McCawley, «Meeting challenges head on with the guidance of our remote workers has made a significant impact on our success as a virtual company.»

In a pair of internal memos last week, the heads of engineering and production spelled out measures to free up workers for the Model 3 line and challenged them to reach production goals.

It can be challenging to figure out how to turn all of the useful information in your head into organized lessons that others can follow easily.

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More disruption is headed to the healthcare industry, challenging the power of the incumbents in the sector.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

Instead, ask open - ended, probing questions to help the customer open up and talk about their larger challenges and the bigger picture of where their organization is heading.

I'm going beyond B2B marketing tactics in this column to challenge all of us, including myself, who can easily get stuck in the day - to - day grind, heads down.

The read I get into the corporate announcement by HP's CEO Leo Apotheker is one of a strategic move to focus on challenging IBM with head - to - head similar business models.

As Christians we must acknowledge these movements in «progressive» culture, and take on the challenge of encountering them head on.

Let's see, you'll insult people's parents (welcome to the third grade) or call others «not right in the head» (because you can't face even minimal challenge) or call others uncivil (when virtually all of your comments are condescending put downs).

shrewdly aligned with the American ethos of individual success and self - fulfillment, mainline churches have courageously taken unpopular stands, confronting head - on the diversity of American life, the depth of our social problems and the intellectual challenges to belief.

The issues, which the Vatican places under the heading of «pastoral challenges of the family,» were chosen based on the results of a worldwide survey of Catholics in 2013.