Sentences with phrase «much about his colleagues»

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The London, Ont., native doesn't talk much about his early days, but Robert Rosiello, a colleague of Pearson's from his time at McKinsey and Valeant's current chief financial officer, says getting hired straight out of college was an impressive feat.

Your colleagues are the people you turn to when you've got questions about how things work, how best to navigate a particular company policy or procedure, how to make a connection with a member of their business or other networks, and much more.

When you run into an esteemed colleague at an event, you'll make much more of an impression if you know the latest news about his or her business.

Anyone who tells you that building a startup or driving a lean transformation is glamorous has not experienced how much of the work is about measurement, accountability, and being brutally honest with yourselves and your colleagues.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

I was chatting with my colleague Nancy Marmolejo about how she was getting so much traction of Facebook.

Last week, when I heard my colleagues talking about Hurricane Harvey, I did not think much of it beyond the typical flood warnings that come with any bout of heavy rain in Houston.

These include being frequently interrupted or talked over; having decision - makers primarily address your male colleagues, even if they're junior to you; working harder to receive the same recognition as your male peers; having your ideas ignored unless they're rephrased by your male colleagues; worrying so much about being either «too nice» or «sharp elbowed» that it hurts your ability to be effective; frequently being asked how you manage your work - life balance; and perhaps most difficult of all, not having peers who have been through similar situations to support you during tough times.

Speaking at a party retreat, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told his colleagues that the party had spent too much time talking about the concerns of business owners and entrepreneurs and not enough about the concerns of that majority who were not (and in many cases did not want to be) business....

The pastor opened up about the affair shortly after, disclosing much of it to his closest friends and colleagues.

I suppose what I am saying as a man, is that I might not be aware of it as much as my female colleagues, so I am relying to some extent on women to give me an indication of what is mysogeny or (for want of a better word) women being bitchy about men and what is the appropriate way to engage in any given situation.

Keeping her focus on customer service - oriented education sessions, Mari soaked up as much experience as she could, connecting with colleagues from around the country to learn about their challenges and successes along the way.

Other parents, your child, and fellow colleagues can be excellent sources of information and now is the perfect time to start asking questions to gather intel as you begin thinking about a gift that shows how much you appreciate their hard work.

There is no need to rush about it, but for some expectant mothers the thrill of having a baby is just too much, and very soon they start giving the news to relatives, friends and colleagues.

Have you thought about partnering with a colleague from a neighboring district to team up and run a much bigger school nutrition program nearby?

At about the 5:40 - minute mark in this video, Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a Westchester Democrat, thanks Gallagher's family, who were in the balcony along with many of his friends and LCA colleagues, for «sharing this moment with us and experience, very much, what Jay experienced: The timing of the Legislature.»

«This case is about corruption and greed at the highest levels,» Tierney said, his remark sounding much like one delivered by his colleague in opening statements March 14 in the same Central Islip courtroom.

I've told him I didn't agree with him about gay marriage, the House of Lords, and about Europe — although now he's come much closer to the position I wanted us to be in — I've been pushing that, as have a number of my colleagues, for a long time.

There was much excitement over the summer about the reading list which Conservative MP Keith Simpson circulated from which he hoped colleagues would select their holiday reading.

My colleague Scot Peterson has produced a memorandum showing, among much else, why the QC is wrong about Aston Cantlow.

«Very much admire & respect what my friend & colleague @EdwardJDavey has said today on Lib Dem Voice about the importance of family,» he wrote.

«I have spent much of my life in politics working with colleagues, writing and thinking about how more people in our country can get good jobs, receive good education, and enjoy a better quality of life.

Very much admire & respect what my friend & colleague @EdwardJDavey has said today on Lib Dem Voice about the importance of family.

She and her colleagues compared the data with those from similar samples given by another ethnic group called the Saluan, who live about 25 kilometers away in the coastal village of Koyoan, but don't spend much time in the water.

Researchers have the training and tools to learn about a new field and the associated methodologies, but it's much harder to find colleagues willing to dedicate precious time and resources to new, exploratory projects.

Cassini scientist Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and colleagues have now mapped Enceladus's gravity and shown that it has a crescent - shaped ocean, holding about as much water as Lake Superior in North America.

To assess how well consumers understand new sunscreen labels and evaluate how much they know about sun protection, Kundu and colleagues surveyed 114 participants who attended the Northwestern Medicine dermatology clinic during the summer of 2014.

Many of Markram's colleagues think that he is too ambitious, that a model of billions of neurons, no matter how intricate, can not tell much about the functions of a real brain.

This month I'm going to be writing about a subject that I have, in the past, had a serious problem with personally: I've been much too willing to have my day trashed by a colleague's snide comment, or by the «constructive criticism» passed along to me by a boss — or an editor!

Taubenberger, who with his colleagues at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology first fished the 1918 H1N1 pandemic strain out of preserved samples of victims» tissue in 1996, says too much is still unknown about the basic biology and ecology of flu viruses.

Overseas scientists relocating to Japan will need patience, and some Japanese friends and colleagues to help them out in their transition, but shouldn't worry too much about relocating to one of the world's safest, healthiest, best educated, and wealthiest nations,» he says.

But in conversations with her colleagues in psychiatry about brain imaging, LeWinn realized they weren't thinking very much about whose brains they were looking at.

Atkinson and her colleagues hope to refine their analyses to include other variables, such as information about extraction processes and the geology at individual well sites, «to help us understand why some areas seem much more prone to induced seismicity than others.»

Also as in the United States, contingent faculty members receive lower pay than their colleagues on the tenure track — about half as much, according to a figure cited by Yoon.

The book is as much a scientific exploration of how the canine brain might function as it is a deeply personal story about Berns's relationship with dogs as pets and colleagues.

But he and his colleagues were looking for new ways to manipulate and assemble tiny pieces of tissue using magnets — a much harder feat, he says, because for an object smaller than about 20 microns, «the magnetic force scales so much down that it couldn't lift its own gravitational weight.»

Let me say, we haven't found one yet with the energy of a home run, so I shouldn't boast too much — my experimental colleagues are looking for a home run, if you like, but it's a bloop single would be about the right energy you have.

R. J. Rayner and colleagues of the University of Witwaters - rand say that about 3 million years ago the Makapan area was much wetter and greener than it is today; the valley was shallower, the soil was more fertile and there was no pronounced dry season.

Using 30 years of satellite and water balloon data, she and her colleagues have found that water vapor there has actually declined by about 10 percent after the year 2000, slowing warming by as much as 25 percent.

Instead, Arvind and his colleagues» new strategy, known as BlueCache, relies on flash memory, the kind used in flash drives, which consumes about 5 percent as much energy, costs about 10 percent as much, and has about 100 times the storage density.

Using a newly assembled sample population called the Simons Simplex Collection which included about 1000 families, consisting of both birth parents and in most cases two children, one with ASD and the other unaffected, Wigler and colleagues saw the earlier - observed effect, only «this time on a much larger scale.»

We spoke so much, that I know more personal details about him than I do most of my work colleagues.

Too many spirited conversations with colleagues and young members of the movie industry, too much excited chitchat about how everything had changed, too many tweets riven with Sunken Place GIFs, and too much wonder over what it would mean for the future of the Oscars if the show could follow its historic Moonlight moment with a genuinely transgressive acknowledgment of Jordan Peele's social - thriller - horror - comedy - documentary as best in class.

I see and hear so much debate and certainly see value in writing as opposed to typing on a device - when I did some informal research - asking colleagues at a conference about their choice of recording notes many - including the younger members said that handwriting notes helped to retain the information.

A large research study she and a colleague conducted in the state of Ohio provides much - needed information about the effectiveness of remediation for helping college students to graduate.

As always, my only aim is to give support and encouragement to all my lovely colleagues and stay working in the field that I love so much and care about so passionately.

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You will learn so much from just talking with colleagues about what projects and lessons they are using with their students.I teach at a summer program for gifted and advanced students, where I work with other teachers of gifted in the school district, and I always pick up new ideas and methods from hanging around them.

Teachers in Finland design their own courses, using a national curriculum as a guide, not a blueprint, and spend about 80 percent as much time leading classes as their U.S. counterparts do, so that they have sufficient opportunity to plan lessons and collaborate with colleagues.

If the group is too large I worry that it becomes too easy for a participant to «hide» and really never reveal very much about their thinking and practice, and therefore never really examine that thinking and practice with colleagues and, as a consequence, never really work to strengthen what is happening in the classroom.