Sentences with phrase «n't work a deal»

And there are even claims the club attempted to sign him before the the transfer deadline passed on Monday, but couldn't work a deal as the player had still not returned from the African Cup of Nations...

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It was an open secret that during negotiations, SoftBank was clear that it was willing to invest in Lyft if the Uber deal did not work out.

If a potential consultant has not worked on similar projects in the past, this should be a deal breaker in the hiring decision.

Whatever feelings you have trouble dealing with — jealousy, shame, inferiority, entitlement — transferring them to people you work with and acting out in anger won't just make you and everyone around you miserable, it'll kill your career, too.

I was going from a record company to the airline business, so the key thing in that deal was that if it didn't work out, I could hand the 747 back to Boeing after the first year.

Nijjar says his lack of entrepreneurial experience actually works in his favour when he's looking for investment opportunities and closing deals — he doesn't have personal success stories to «pattern match» potential investees against or operational dogmas to foist on them under the guise of help.

«I don't mean you shouldn't set up a Facebook store, but if every post is about selling a product or pitching a deal, I don't think the medium works well.

Discounts and deals — the traditional currency of fast food marketing — simply don't work as well on this demographic.

It's a good deal for you and your key employees: After all, if you want to hire smart people, remember that smart people won't work for beans.

While the US VC houses don't appear to be raising funds anywhere near the size of SoftBank's Vision Fund, it's possible that they will work together on deals in a bid to convince founders to take their money instead of or alongside SoftBank's.

«Companies get a deal when they hire an employee for $ 75,000, but don't tell the employee they expect them to work 60 hours per week!»

This approach works best when your champion is junior or new to the organization, because in these cases they themselves may not know what it'll take to get the deal done.

What's the biggest challenge unique to working on an annual game that other developers don't necessarily have to deal with so intensely?

Moreover, it's a great venue for the self - employed developer, or those who just want to make money while working on other projects, or basically those who don't want to deal with office drama.

Telling someone how their behavior is making others feel, or working to the detriment of the company — an effective approach with many employees — won't work at all when you're dealing with a narcissist.

Going public or accepting an acquisition deal isn't in the works.

The times when I haven't is when I was working too hard, dealing with people I didn't like, getting my creativity crushed over and over, and so on.

She made sure the deal included all her employees, not just those working at SurveyMonkey.

Together, they formulated a six - week program specifically tailored to our business (i.e. our people don't work a traditional 9 - to - 5 workday and they travel a great deal).

Ironically, when the legal barriers to a merger were lowered, it was the economics of the deal that couldn't be worked out.

But lacking local licences, those seconded to Hong Kong can only advise their colleagues, not work on deals themselves.

A lot of tech campuses are structured to provide perks like food, gyms, laundry, etc. so that workers can work longer and not have to deal with those things outside of work.

Using crowdfunding does not mean you will be successful, as there is a great deal of work and planning that goes into properly launching a campaign.

On - site nurseries cut out commute time for parents and make it so parents don't have to take as much time out of the work day to deal with family matters.

Employees say: «KPMG is a great place to work because not only do they place a great deal of emphasis on the value of working hard, but they also place emphasis on the value of enjoying the benefits that come along with this hard work.

In social media, that's just not the way it works anymore, and brands are going to have to learn to deal with it.»

years ago, but the financial crisis hit, and a deal didn't work for either of us at that time.

Khosrowshahi's greatest accomplishment initially might not be in working out deals with Las Vegas for self - driving car permits and a connected car framework, or figuring out how to get along with Silicon Valley.

EquityZen declined to comment on the price, saying any active deals it «may or may not be working on» are restricted by a non-disclosure agreement.

There is really none when one of his companies can suddenly decide to buy another for close to $ 3 billion, and he announces the deal on a day when he's not working on landing rockets for his other company.

Unfortunately for HP, things didn't work out well on the IT services front and the company is struggling under the load at a time when large outsourcing deals are shrinking.

You don't want a deal that locks you in to one partner while preventing you from working with others.

«The film industry is very much boom or bust, so we are either dealing with a lot of resources, or we don't have any work and are still trying to pay our staff.»

If coming home from work to a clean apartment sounds like a dream come true, you might not want to pass this deal up.

I think the speech was mostly because in order for this policy to work, our supervisor has to manually remove the unapproved minutes from our timecards so that we won't be paid for them (paying a supervisor to spend 10 minutes removing 5 minutes from a subordinate's pay doesn't work out for me in a cost / benefit sense but that is the sort of logic we're dealing with at this place).

Starting in September, Bair will be working for Pew Charitable Trusts (a ProPublica supporter)-- a move that earned her plaudits from the Wall Street Journal's Deal Blog, which noted, «Here's a bit of shocking news: A Washington regulator is NOT going to work for the industry she used to rule over.»

The deal didn't work out, but it led me to learn an important lesson: Make darn sure that you double - check the addressees on any important email you send.

They have these advantages, according to the reports of western companies: they usually have more of a sense of responsibility than do their unmarried sisters; they're less likely to be flirtatious; as a rule, they need the work or they wouldn't be doing it — maybe a sick husband or one who's in the army; they still have the pep and interest to work hard and to deal with the public efficiently.

Many independent contractors take a great deal of pride in their work, but not so much in the company they happen to be working for at the moment.

Hey, I had a great deal of skill in football, but I've seen a lot of skilled people that didn't do a damn thing in the game, because they didn't prepare; they didn't go out there and work hard.

It was hard in that I had to deal with the pay cycles of my clients — do the work in June, for example, but not get paid until September.

The pressure is on for both camps to deliver: the inclusion in the coalition deal of a clause that envisages a review of the government's progress after two years gives each the opportunity to leave the alliance then if it is not working for them.

The chief thing to remember is that what works for one company, in one state, on one particular deal may not work for that same company on another deal.

But he didn't include Microsoft in that group, even after the companies made a big deal about their work together in 2014 and again in 2015.

That doesn't mean it's not a big deal if the company can get it to work well, though.

So the pre-election Republican position, backed by allies such as the Chamber of Commerce, to extend all of the tax cuts and postpone all of the spending cuts until the leaders work out a deal is not likely to win over many Democrats, who seem more inclined to let the tax cuts expire and start from scratch next year, presumably making it harder for Republicans to resist.

But just because conflict is inevitable when colleagues of diverse backgrounds and temperaments are thrown together in a high stress work environment, doesn't mean disputes can't be dealt with constructively and in a way that reinforces rather than erodes morale at your company.

Business Insider recently met with Waze cofounder and former CEO Uri Levine, the only one of Waze's cofounder executives who didn't go work at Google after the deal closed.

Miller, who until recently was a senior adviser at the Business Council of Canada, which represents the chief executives of the country's biggest companies, says Canadians simply don't know enough about how China works to avoid getting screwed in the fine print of any deal.

The AT&T - Time Warner deal works in theory, but investment expert Ivan Feinseth is not so confident it will work in practice.