Sentences with phrase «many powerful people»

It too seldom goes after powerful people over the actual business of governing because it is too hard to make the audience care.

The impulse towards those acts, and the beliefs about women that underlie them, probably predate a powerful person's rise.

The study, which was published in the September issue of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, also indicated that one's perception of available time led powerful people to be, in general, less stressed.

Early last week, I spent three days among some of the most powerful people in business, media, and innovation at Dell's 5th annual Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network, or DWEN, conference in Austin.

Here are the five most powerful people in Canadian retail, as drawn from the 2014 Canadian Business Power 50 list.

It's enough to make you wonder what would happen if every powerful person in the Valley took such a pledge.

A decade later, she found herself at the table with some of the world's most powerful people.

Among his other findings, Goleman noted that emotions are contagious and flow from the more powerful person outward.

At the very least, controversial emails or other communications from high - profile or powerful people that are disclosed publicly — no matter how they are obtained — are considered in the court of public opinion where no rules of admissibility apply.

Comey has now called Trump» morally unfit» and has described the most powerful person in America as unethical.

He'll do so surrounded by some of the most powerful people in American business, as he is joined by the likes of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Kevin McAllister, and Donald Chen, Asia - Pacific president of Archer Daniels Midland.

Hall was recently described in the book Remarkable You as «one of the most powerful people in media who you've never met,» and has emerged as a go - to keynote speaker on topics like marketing, sales, and leadership.

One of the very first acts of business between two of the most powerful people on Earth — a duo whose to - do list involves addressing pretty fundamental disagreements on, among other things, the trade relationship that supports both economies — was to commit, publicly and unequivocally, to tackling an issue that affects literally half of each of their constituencies.

«He's an extraordinary judge who is scrupulous about getting the law right, and has the courage to do that even when it angers powerful people,» says Minor Myers, a Brooklyn Law School professor who has studied appraisal suits.

National Press Club president Thomas Burr asked Thiel if what happened to Gawker could happen to other news publications: «Could wealthy, powerful people seek revenge against a news organization because of something they didn't like and use their influence and money to take them out?»

Not only that, but by designing their offices, Kuwabara is quite literally changing how some of world's most powerful people work.

Regardless of whether the Trumps have a nanny, the larger trend here is that many rich and powerful people flaunt their parenting prowess, ignoring or downplaying the role that hired help might play.

A mentor to the likes of Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, John Doerr, and Larry Page, he also was a mentor to countless of other less important and powerful people, including me.

These are rich and powerful people who threatened me with ruin.

So, let go of your misconceptions, own your own worth, and treat powerful people like people.

Takers are good fakers when they're dealing with powerful people, but it's a lot of work to pretend to care about everyone so, selectively, they'll let their guard down.

Media columnist Michael Wolff argued in a recent interview that journalists should be «stenographers,» in the sense that they should simply report what powerful people say and leave it at that.

SNL is not afraid to be irreverent, even offensive, toward the most powerful people in Washington.

Since founding his own investment firm in 1968, Icahn has become one of the most powerful people in finance, investing in scores of high - profile companies, including RJR Nabisco, Philips Petroleum, Viacom, Marvel, Time Warner, Netflix, and Herbalife.

The New York Observer, owned by Trump's son - in - law, ranked him as the 14th most powerful person in New York real estate in 2011.

But even more shocking than that admission is the fact that Thursday's tweets are a totally straightforward explanation of how powerful people like Trump can use their wealth to manipulate others and cover up any information they want hidden.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

«I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it,» said Mr. Gorman, who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with his wife of more than 20 years, Penny, and their two college - age children.

Beneath its carefully constructed appearance of meritocracy are the world's most powerful people, pulling strings, turning gears, and winning every time.

Cambridge Analytica members like Wylie, who recruited Kogan to work with the company, and Kogan himself, failed to anticipate that handing so much personal data to powerful people might provide them a new way to saturate Facebook with misleading or downright false information.

«Powerful people give freely, buying influence rather than things.»

In addition, he was named to Swanepoel's Power 200, a list of the 200 most powerful people in residential real estate.

In 2017, Amy was the first woman to be named one of Swanepoel's ten most powerful people in real estate.

In 2017, Eric was added to the Business Insider list of the 52 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech.

Fortune's recent cover article named him the «CEO Whisperer,» and he has been named in the top 50 of Worth Magazine's 100 most powerful people in global finance for two consecutive years.

Just this past February he purchased Heinz and was named No. 15 on Forbes magazine's «World's Most Powerful People» list.

And the debate about the Big 4 or the Big 5 is heating up: Professors like Scott Galloway and The Economist are suggesting a split - up, other powerful people like George Soros are giving very critical speeches at Davos, and the EU Commission is taking pretty tough positions here.

This is, in the purest of senses, privilege: the ability to avoid the consequences that most anyone else in the same situation would have to endure — and, along with that, the ability to walk all over less powerful people in order to avoid those consequences — due to one's own power and social position.

You know, as the owner of The Post, I know that at times The Post is going to write stories that are going to make very powerful people very unhappy.

Or that Indian officials pointed out that Modi hadn't gone for Chinese President Xi Jinping, the world's most powerful person.

But it's up against some powerful people who have the President's ear.

He was brave and unrelenting in his role, particularly when it came to forcefully advocating for children in care — the least powerful people in our society.»

Ben Bernanke was arguably the most powerful person in finance at the exact moment finance, essentially, broke.

«Some people following the Thiel story appear to be surprised that these weapons can be used by rich and powerful people in order to get their way,» Olson tells me.

Reaching out to influencers provides an avenue for high - impact work, since it can involve convincing a few powerful people to make decisions that influence the lives of millions of animals.

«Assertive, powerful people factor student loan debt into their overall life plan, feeling grateful that they were able to get an education and embark on a career that is meaningful.

Jockeying to replace the region's most powerful people, including European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi, will begin in earnest in 2018.

Powerful people are known for their ambition and desire to chase the impossible making it a reality.

I think it really will take something like 80 % for gun control, and tragically, I'm convinced it will take a lot more senseless deaths — and not just the death of black teenagers, but the deaths of children of powerful people through gun violence.

In my experience, bishops think they belong at the center of things but for reasons entirely different from why other powerful people are powerful.