Sentences with phrase «many people in the room»

(See How to Deal with Time Wasters) Such sessions rarely accomplish anything except maybe some pseudo-bonding; they don't have a logical and clearly - understood endpoint so they seem both pointless and interminable; and, most often, they sorta drool to a conclusion without agreed - upon action items and / or documented next steps for at least half the people in the room.

«You've got 12 people in a room and everyone has to say what they do» to improve efficiency, Handmaker says.

An Oval Office bill signing attended by lawmakers and financial services interest groups devolved into a venting session about Richard Cordray, the embattled director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to six people in the room and two people briefed on the conversation.

During the meeting with executives Thursday, Cohn argued against taking action, according to a person in the room.

Get 2,000 people in a room and at least half will say they'd like to lose a little weight.

Halfway through the event, Trump told the attendees he would impose tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports, the person in the room said.

«I used to kid around that I went from being a really smart person to the least smart person in the room,» Rahn said.

Of course, there are some entrepreneurs that will want the most seasoned person in the room, but I've found that there's a segment of founders who really valued that commitment and work ethic.

«A lot of owners are the smartest person in the room,» says Jacoline Loewen, an investment advisor at UBS Canada.

There's much to be said for being one of the oldest people in the room and the credibility you receive at face value simply for not being young.

It's a positive thing if you understand the obligations involved in responding to an invitation to be a speaker: the obligation to share your thoughts if you know more than the other people in the room, and the obligation to not share your thoughts if you don't know more than the other people in the room.

He told reporters after his speech that he hoped a few of the smart people in the room to dig into the questions he raised.

Imagine adding Google Glass to the picture, with a RelSci - powered facial recognition app matching the wearer's profile against people in the room, suggesting targets for sucking up to, along with the optimal pathways.

The worst managers have to be the smartest person in the room.

Don't drink your own Kool - Aid or try to be the smartest person in the room.

This simple act will help the other person feel like the only person in the room who matters to you in that moment.

This one's easy, your goal is not to be the smartest person in the room, it's to learn from those who have more experience, creative ideas, and bring a new perspective.

Just because someone is a boss doesn't make him or her the smartest person in the room.

«I was like why are all these people in my room?

My most successful clients understand their limitations, listen to others and don't have to be the smartest person in the room.

If I'm the smartest person in the room, I will walk out.

Making someone feel like the most important person in the room when you're talking to them can go a long way in building your relationship.

Piled high on a side table is enough junk food — potato chips, popcorn and Oreo cookies — to put an extra five pounds on every person in the room.

Next 15 subscribes to the Jim Collins way of thinking: put good people in the room, give them simple parameters, and it's amazing what can come out of that.

Then factor in the opportunity cost for what every person in the room could be achieving instead of listening to Biff from engineering talk about groundbreaking new advances in ball bearing technology.

«The ability to get a lot of people in a room and enjoy a single thing is something I love seeing happen,» Ramos says.

And watches out for big egos: «One thing I watch for: Do they have to be the smartest person in the room?»

Several people in the room raised their hands.

Or as entrepreneur Kevin Johnson cleverly put it, you need to be OK with sometimes feeling like you're the dumbest person in the room.

Would you like to become the most memorable person in the room?

A very, very important component of CHS, according to Fishman, is that you have a room of 90 people in a room who are not worried about what they can get, but what they can give.

Make your listener feel like they're the only person in the room.

This selfless act of putting the spotlight on someone else makes you the more interesting person in the room.

Before you walk into any room, make sure you know what the people in that room need.

And if your positionally yourself correctly, you shouldn't be the loudest person in the room because you shouldn't be the smartest person in the room.

I was the only person in the room to witness the surreal encounter.

You won't be the smartest person in the room, but the fact is, you don't need to be.

You don't need to be the loudest person in the room.

««Admire people» is one of our core values,» he says, «so we're looking for someone who will point to the top person in the room and honestly say why they would hire him.»

In fact, you were instrumental in many of the major transactions and business affairs of many of the people in this room.

A leader's best move is to intentionally not be the smartest person in the room or pretend to know all the answers, thereby fooling other people or themselves.

She described a class exercise where Stanford undergraduates were asked to choose the smartest person in the room to lead them out of a theoretical desert.

Moore's first order of business in the planning session is to ask why there are so many damned people in the room.

But most people in the room, French and English alike, soon forgot about politics when Harrison started speaking about improving railway performance, which he has repeatedly proved he can do like nobody else in the business, so long as he is allowed to do things his way.

Chances are, one person in the room is doing the majority of the talking, while everyone else listens and nods along.

For instance, instead of sitting on the couch with each person in the room playing a game like Crossyroad on his or her smartphone (and then comparing scores), you find yourself cheering (or jeering) one another as each person attempts to one - up the high score.

However, if you've convinced yourself that you're the only person in the room with something interesting or valuable to say, then you'll miss key opportunities to clarify, provide relevant examples and challenge the audience to dig deeper to extract greater meaning.

she estimates that 80 percent of the people in the room raise their hands.

They are not the smartest person in the room, with all of the ideas on how to fix every problem.

«My best tip for networking is that you always think you want to network with people who can add value — the important person in the room.