Sentences with phrase «n't got to that position»

Nonetheless, one doesn't get to the position of professor (I used to think) without some broad acquaintance with ideas and their histories and some capacity for reflection on one's own perspective.

Most bosses didn't get to their position by strolling in late every day.

Not exact matches

Although he did not get the nod as the Department of Homeland Security secretary, a position for which he interviewed, incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told WTMJ «we definitely» want Clarke to be involved «in the administration at some level» and that he is «going to have opportunities» to serve in the Trump White House.

«Your brain is wired not only to figure out where you sit in the professional and social pecking order against others, but to reinforce your position in that pecking order,» says writer Steve Errey, who continues: «When you get wrapped up in establishing or maintaining status, the moment your place in the hierarchy drops you're going to feel pretty horrible... Don't get into the status game — there are no winners.»

When executive coach Marshall Goldsmith wrote What Got You Here Won't Get You There, he identified a key trait that often prevents leaders from moving into top positions at companies — namely, a reluctance to share credit.

«He said we don't know which of you are going to get positions and we don't know what budget is,» the staffer recounted.

Overall, the scorecard highlighted several overarching trends: globally, women don't get access to an equal share of resources; men still dominate in key leadership positions; and growth capital and innovation ecosystems primarily focus on businesses run by men.

«It's not really a change on being pro or against austerity, it's understanding that the supply response that we got from the reforms now need to be matched, with some demand response and Europe is in a very good position to do it,» he added.

«You've got to put yourself in a position to meet somebody who'll be receptive, and that won't happen unless you see people,» he explains.

Answer: Unlike large public companies with many shareholders, your boss's business isn't likely to attract many buyers, so you are in a good position to get a relatively low price without a lot down.

«Don't put the person in a position of having to ask permission like a child when they need to miss a day of school and have to get a doctor's note,» he says.

The single biggest reason to move a CFO to a line position, before they are promoted to CEO, is not only to get that experience with customers, but also to develop their skills around people.

The better approach, he thinks, is positioning as a «good tasting» alternative to soda rather than a substitute for beer: «For when you are not drinking, AND for when you are drinking but not for the sole purpose of getting absolutely drunk.»

«What really matters is that companies that don't continue to experiment — companies that don't embrace failure — they eventually get in a desperate position, where the only thing they can do is make a «Hail Mary» bet at the very end.»

Not long after Cramer got the Goldman position, an employee from the firm contacted him, got the answering machine message, and told Cramer to call him as soon as possible.

According to the study, just 23 percent of Americans see brands as honest, which means you've got to strive especially hard to win consumers» trust: their de facto position is to not trust you.

Getting results depends not so much on your position, but on your ability to garner support from others and being able to persuade others to buy into your way of thinking.

I am not in a financial position to get treatment at this time.

«Just had a call with a guy — so they basically formed a convoy, but did not get to their f — positions by some 300 meters.

And that's too bad because sales is about tenacity, the willingness to push on through the «no's,» the «I'm not sure's,» to get to that fifth conversation and put yourself in position to make the sale.

Then our competition came after us aggressively, and we were not in a position of strength to get through that as well as we should have.

In Getting to Yes, the great leap is to focus not on your adversary and his or her position, but rather to negotiate «on the merits.»

When a company is transparent about the position and itself, the applicant is able to set reasonable expectations and is less likely to become discouraged if he or she doesn't get the job.

Funds are increasingly in a position where they can't sell assets quickly to get that money to return to their investors.

Now we're in a position where we don't know how to get out.»

«We got a parliament position paper that said, HFT [high - frequency trading] isn't bad, you need to put a framework around it but you can do this,» Swinburne said.

While Telles, who has been at the same hospital for three years, didn't need to research the actual company, she got a firm grasp on the job description and expectations of the new position she was applying for.

Scaramucci's firing goes to show that being overconfident in your abilities and your position — the millionaire Mooch bragged that he reported directly to the president, not the chief of staff — can doom you from get - go.

Because many cities don't have widespread public transportation, American households are put in a tough position where a new car is unaffordable but a vehicle is needed to get to work every day.

Trump has since seemed to reverse that position, saying that «we need highly skilled people in this country, and if we can't do it, we'll get them in.»

You don't need people in positions; as Dharmesh Shah says, «You need doers of things that need to get done.»

There's been lots of pontificating about this, but Kieran Snyder, who's held senior leadership positions at Microsoft and Amazon, and is CEO and co-founder at text analysis startup Textio, decided that getting the answer to this question shouldn't really be that hard.

If you're on a tight budget and need someone who can hit the ground running, it may be more cost - effective to get along with an unfilled position than to hire someone who not only won't be productive from Day One, but will also take up another employee's time to train, lowering overall productivity.

I'd then make it my life's mission to get a meeting with an executive at that company to let them know that I'm the perfect person to work for them — even if a position doesn't exist — and I'd work for free until a position opened up.»

The buffer is put in place to ensure that lenders do not get themselves into the same positions that they did during the financial crisis, protecting themselves from debt going bad and triggering another credit crunch.

Regardless, you aren't in a position to avoid the previous mistake, or to mentally get back into the game.

He says Trump campaigned on constant complaints about Mexico, not Canada, and Harper appears to suggest it was unwise of the Liberals to insist upon renegotiating a trilateral NAFTA: «How did we get ourselves in this position?

This murky area of cyber warfare will become more of an issue in the coming months, as similar tactics are used not just to get people elected, but to make sure they don't get reelected, or even rehired for positions of importance.

«This is an opportunity to lighten up on positions you didn't get to yesterday,» he said.

WILSON: If you're working orders across multiple exchanges, because you're trying to accumulate a position and you don't really know where the liquidity is going to come from, you could easily get fills in multiple places and not know about it.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

«They are continuing to position themselves so expectations don't get out of control.»

You may not have added to your positions but you stayed on course which is more than most people have done and if you held quality dividend stocks you were still getting paid during that rocky period.

But what pisses me off is that they don't bother getting in touch with their clients to at least defend their position with their SEC issue that they are having.

«I've not seen as strong a reply or a position taken by either Alberta or the federal government,» Williams said, but added a caveat: «We've got to see these plans roll out that they've been working on, and I think we see that over the next few weeks.»

I ranked 1st page the first day, however, not sure how much link building I need to do to get to number 1 position.

Earnings season is about to get underway, too, which is more than likely going to show a fourth straight quarterly decline in profits — and if firms aren't seeing bottom line leverage, they may be slow to dole out new positions, or much in the way of payroll hikes.

The MACD indicator is getting close to oversold territory, also favoring caution, and opening new positions at this level is not advised.

Unless you have a significant equity position to use as capital to get into more units, you must realize the real estate won't get you into more real estate right now.

And I reckon, it's sort of interesting for me for private equity in terms of all we've seen, and what we have seen, where we have seen some misconduct and things like that,»cause I always think like, to my simple mind, that the people in private equity, they're the greatest, they're actually adding value to their clients, they're getting paid really really well, you know, if I was in that position, the one thing I would think to myself as I skipped to work was like just «Let's not mess it up.