Sentences with phrase «early leadership on»

National organizations such as EdChoice (formerly the Friedman Foundation, established in 1996) and the American Education Reform Foundation (founded in 1998) and Alliance for School Choice (founded in 2004), which later became affiliated with the American Federation for Children (founded in 2009), were the most prominent voices in state capitols, providing early leadership on choice - related policy and working to counter choice policy myths.

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While in town earlier this month to deliver a keynote at the Toronto stop on the Salesforce World Tour, Harris spoke with Canadian Business about cloud computing, innovation and what he's learned about leadership since starting the company in 1999.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The shake - up at South Korea's biggest company is designed to ease investors» concerns about a leadership vacuum following the arrest and conviction of group scion Jay Y. Lee on bribery charges earlier this year.

Since most of his staff (not to mention his entire board) have 20 years on him and much more executive experience, he decided early on that the iron - fist leadership style wouldn't benefit anyone.

It arrived on the heels of earlier large business - jet sales to VistaJet and NetJets, and firmed up Bombardier's leadership in the long - distance luxury plane market.

«Our advice to early stage hardware companies is focus on five things — validating and articulating the pain they eliminate or problem they solve, benefits versus features and being laser focused on tech product development, cultivating a community of believers and early customers, efficiently using their cash by leveraging experts and community hubs like makerspaces and reflecting great leadership and a community mindset.»

In the early 2000s, Mackey began giving talks about a new business paradigm and a different kind of leadership, one based on Freeman's stakeholder theory.

Noting that Google's leadership greenlighted the autonomous idea «before a time when anybody thought this would be thing,» Krafcik — who now looks less like the auto executive he once was and more like the forever cool keyboard player in a 1970s progressive rock band, goateed and with styled gray hair and a trimly fitted blue suit — stressed that Google understood from the beginning the need to partner with car companies and early on sought to imagine how that collaboration might work.

As the team continues to grow, one thing I'm focused on is keeping intact the culture the early leadership team worked very hard to create.

Under his leadership, it was promoted by bare - chested male models and transformed into an upscale retailer for dudes in their early 20s with $ 148 to spend on a pair of jeans.

Early in Larson's leadership, Packard made a massive bet on curbing climate change — an issue that has only become more urgent since then.

Polaris has been a visionary partner in the founding and building of Visterra, working with our scientific team on the initial concept in the MIT Labs, forming the company, in - licensing the IP, hiring our first employees and serving as interim leadership in those early days.

Some of the earliest research on leadership looked at people who were already successful leaders.

Additionally, Rafael Bostic will assume leadership of the Atlanta Fed in early June and sit on the FOMC next year while the Richmond Fed is continuing its search for Jeffrey Lacker's successor, who will have a vote in 2018 as well.

Combined with the unexpectedly early departure of the Fed's vice chair, Stanley Fischer, and the three pre-existing vacancies out of the seven seats on the Fed's board of governors, there has remained a high degree of uncertainty about the future composition of the central bank's leadership.

But early in 2017, with new leadership and a new emphasis on domestic U.S. projects, Exxon's fortunes may be improving, in no small measure thanks to its allies in the Federal Government and its growing investment in U.S. shale.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen's term is scheduled to end early in 2018, so I think the markets will increasingly be focused on the Fed's potential path under new leadership if it seems likely she won't continue on.

Early on in his book, he declaims, «I saw the Surgeon - General's office... as a position of medical leadership.»

Some of the more conservative - minded attendees had left early on when Bell insisted on women in leadership.

Marty also justifies using the theme of irony for the early 20th century because of the unusual pretensions of the establishment leadership of that era, but he wants to avoid even vestigial versions of such pretensions that would keep mainline Protestants on center stage, as they are in traditional American religious histories.

In the early twentieth century, Indian Christians demonstrated this goal of self - propagation through the Madura Church Council's initial emphasis on every church member as an evangelist; and in the growing leadership of Indian teachers, doctors, nurses, and administrators in Christian institutions like schools and hospitals.

As we talked about earlier, if your leadership has been trained and equipped on issues related to abuse, they will be a major source of assistance to you and others in addressing this critical matter.

Ramsey is a consistent starter that was named captain of his international team at a very young age (I know stuff happened and he was stripped, but everyone could see his leadership qualities early on).

The Steelers had a bunch of injuries at outside linebacker early in the season, and were also in dire need of some leadership on that side of the ball.

The tri-captains will be leaned on by Plummer to provide leadership on and off the court, especially during the early transition with a new coach.

Captain Adam «MIA» Glass couldn't be there on Monday Night and I think his leadership could have been enough to help Team Glass preserve the win it looked like they had earlier in the night.

Keeping Arsene Wenger in place is unambitious and reeks of weak leadership at the highest levels of Arsenal F.C. I've been a huge admirer of Wenger since the early weeks of his tenure at the helm of the greatest football club on this planet, and I'm eternally grateful for the initial years of beautiful football he delivered.

Neither was the wholly inadequate leadership both on the pitch and (until early March) on the touchline.

After Skelos was arrested on federal corruption charges in early 2015, Martins initially said he should keep his leadership post.

In a stream of memos, beginning early in Miliband's leadership, Tony Blair's former communications director Alastair Campbell urged Miliband to confront what he described as the Tory lie on the deficit, arguing that it would be fatal if Labour allowed the charge to stick.

Walsh wanted the Republican nod early on, but party leadership didn't want him, going with Laura Lavine instead.

This was a reference to the events of late July and early August 2008 which followed Labour's defeat to the Scottish National Party in the Glasgow East by - election when, with a demoralised Gordon Brown on holiday in Suffolk, with Labour as many as 25 points behind in the polls, and with MPs insurgent and openly discussing a leadership challenge, Miliband made his move.

George W. Bush became the early front - runner, acquiring unprecedented funding and a broad base of leadership support based on his governorship of Texas and the name recognition and connections of the Bush family.

Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler announced this afternoon that the House leadership has agreed to have a straight - up vote on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act when members return from their August break — perhaps as early as the week of September 20.

The emails Cuomo sent yesterday give a very early clue to an argument he would likely make if he indeed decides to take a step onto the national stage: Under my leadership, New York led the nation on touchstone progressive issues, not only becoming the largest state in the country (before the US Supreme Court Prop. 8 decision) to legalize gay marriage, but also the first to act on gun control in the wake of the horrific Newtown massacre.

On the other hand Mr Johnson also offers a generous spirited, open minded brand of Conservatism which reflect his Notting Hill set background as being one of David Cameron's earliest leadership campaign supporters in 2005.

Many Tories early in the debate - the initial stages took the form of Sir George Young, the Leader of the House, and his Shadow, Angela Eagle, giving statements on behalf of their leaderships - gave answers which followed the format of «Of course the current Lords is indefensible, but so is this Bill».

For example, Indira Gandhi didn't enter the Indian National Congress party leadership contest until two years after her father's death and we are yet to read it anywhere that Rajiv, his son, was involved in any «Deception Campaigns» before he was appointed as Prime Minister on October 31, 1984, following his mother's assassination earlier in the day.

From very early on the Lib Dem leadership's main hurdle was to convince its predominantly leftwing MPs and party, and Adonis makes an incisive analysis of this that is hard to fault.

The campaign to retain the seat is also an early test for Flanagan, who ascended to the leadership post in May following Dean Skelos's arrest on corruption charges.

Earlier this month, Labour's poll lead had dwindled to just three or four points, although one poll actually put the Tories and Labour on level pegging, prompting renewed speculation about Miliband's leadership.

Speculation arose last week that Democrat Paul Vallone, who came in third in the Sept. 15 primary with 22 percent of the vote, would run on the Republican line, replacing Auburndale attorney Dan Halloran after a story surfaced earlier this month about Halloran's leadership in a pre-Christian pagan religion.

Jeremy Corbyn's Labour critics are already discussing how to respond if the party sustains heavy losses on election night — with most counselling against an early leadership challenge after his better - than - expected performance on the campaign trail.

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Earlier this year, the Democratic Speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, gave up his leadership position after being brought up on federal corruption charges too.

The speech is evidence the Tory leadership is trying to hark back to some of David Cameron's early promises of liberal Conservatism after the party became increasingly focused on economic matters towards the end of the last parliament.

Earlier on Monday, Lamb announced cross-party support for a commission into the NHS funding crisis, backed by Labour MP and former leadership contender Liz Kendall, and Tory MP Dan Poulter, a former gynaecologist.

A new ORB poll on the Labour leadership earlier in the week showed Andy Burnham was seen as the candidate most likely to help Labour's chances at the next election (36 %), followed by Liz Kendall on 25 %.

The leftwinger has embarked on a slight change of tactics, in which he will flesh out more of his policy plans this week, after mistakenly believing that the leadership contest would move down a gear in early August to allow Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to take time out to be with their young children.