Sentences with phrase «not meeting with the person»

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.

Since you are not meeting with the person physically, you will be less stressful when it comes to the rejection and other miscarriage.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately his opinions aren't met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client and the only person with belief in his abilities with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had.

«I remember, like, you don't often get so obsessed about something where you drop everything and drive to Boston and meet with people for 14 hours, taking notes, losing your voice, with no idea just to learn,» he said.

But, thanks to our one - on - one meeting with Forleo, we realized there's a heap of potential we've not yet explored — especially because our business helps people write their own incredible stories!

I'm sure many of the people requesting meetings with me last week (and didn't notice the email signature) thought I was getting a little ahead of myself — or that Business Insider had some serious cash to burn, and was giving its section editors their own personal lackeys.

Somehow that project led him to have meetings with individuals at the Department of Defense and NASA — people who don't have sit - downs with anyone, much less rock stars.

Employees are encouraged to regularly dissect each other's thinking to determine the root of decision - making, to rate each other's performance using a proprietary iPad app called «Dots,» and to send an audio file to any person mentioned in a meeting — which isn't an outlandish practice internally, since all meetings, with few exceptions, are either digitally recorded for audio or video.

But here's the key: If you're in a conversation at a work - related function or meeting someone to talk business for the first time, your best move is not to ask work - or business - related questions; it's to discover common ties with that person that will steer the conversation back to the «work stuff,» but with a deeper connection.

It is futile to meet people and not follow up with them.

Although Fiasco Gelato has regular meetings, huddles and lunches with the intent of igniting collective creativity and innovation, Boettcher doesn't watch when his employees come and go, and has never denied a vacation request: «You don't track the time people spend thinking about how the business is going to get to the next level, so, why would I track their time off?»

In fact, social media is about creating and enabling more intimate and face - to - face connections with people you might not otherwise have met.

In an unexpected twist, Trump said he planned to meet with the National Rifle Association «about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no - fly list, to buy guns.»

Guerin advises meeting with the accused person — who often has not attacked anyone but made a verbal threat against another employee — outside of work hours or off the work site.

Also, collaborating with people you meet on projects can lead to opportunities that didn't present themselves before.

It's imperative to be social, get yourself out there and know that the first person you meet with may or may not be the perfect fit.

Godin gives the example of Nike's former CEO Philip Knight, who would not speak or meet with people he hadn't heard of.

The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by Dana Zzyym, who was born with ambiguous sex characteristics, and had been attempting to travel to Mexico City for a meeting of intersex people - those born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit the typical definitions of male or female.

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

Portland tech enthusiast Guimont uses EverNote instead of Bump to swap contact information with people she meets who don't use an iPhone.

Online meetings can be scheduled to work for participants in multiple time zones, participants can join from anywhere they have access to a computer, tablet or smartphone with an Internet connection, and they bring together people who might not otherwise work together (in person or online).

Working with Millennials is an interesting experience these days because they do not communicate as often by making phone calls or meeting in person.

One is an agreement with Harvard Pilgrim, a nonprofit health plan covering 1.2 million people, to pay rebates if a patient's vision doesn't meet certain thresholds in 30 to 90 days, and then 30 months after treatment, under a model known as outcomes - based pricing.

«Our soldiers will not be fighting together with people who shot us and killed our soldiers and are trying to kill us,» one senior Turkish security official, briefed on recent meetings between Turkish and U.S. strategists, told Reuters.

If you go to networking events with the intention of just trying to sell to people, they won't want to meet with you later because they know you're going to pitch to them.

I saw the story in the Wall Street Journal Mansion section about Moraga and realized that I had met the owner 20 or 25 years ago with President Reagan at a social party, although he wasn't a very political person.

How would you suggest I go about conducting business on the phone with people who I have not ever met?

«A lot of the people I meet or that I've worked with complain and ask why they are not getting anywhere in their career or why they're not a director after just two years.

They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

«We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd - Frank because, frankly, I have so many people, friends of mine, who have nice businesses who can't borrow money,» Trump said at a meeting with CEOs.

After a week - long standoff with regulators last December when Uber argued that its cars do not meet the state's definition of an autonomous vehicle because they require constant monitoring by a person, Uber moved its self - driving cars from San Francisco to Arizona, a state with fewer regulations for autonomous vehicles.

If a staff person isn't required to meet with a client or customer in person on a particular day and the job can be done from home, there's no reason he or she needs to come into the office.

It's also something he'll continue building out while he's there so as not to forget those people he didn't get to meet but hope to create a relationship with.

President Donald Trump's lawyer told ABC News on Sunday morning that Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last June with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Russian - American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin was innocent because if it weren't, the Secret Service would not have «allowed these people in.»

«People on the phone were not ignoring lunch partners or interrupting strolls with their lovers; rather, phone use seemed to be a way to pass the time while waiting to meet up with someone, or unwinding during a solo lunch break,» Hampton said.

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

«I think every manager struggles with the balance between how much do you bring people around for meetings and how much do you not,» he says.

And, when she decided to get into fashion, she didn't just do some research, she met with «people in the industry who had created or worked at companies I respected — Tory Burch, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, and Calvin Klein, of the established players.»

This is not only normal, it's human, with studies indicating that all people have implicit biases that shape their opinions of people immediately upon meeting them.

You don't necessarily need to catch up with people you've not seen in a while, or try to pack your days with meetings just because you have time.

People in San Francisco, who are choosing to drive with Lyft to help make ends meet, shouldn't have to compromise their privacy in order to share a ride,» a lift spokesperson told The Los Angeles Times.

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.»

However she dismisses the comparison with the U.S. subprime crisis, in which people who could not really afford one home ended up buying two or three; the HOME program will be limited to principal residences for first - time buyers only — and ones who have already met mortgage requirements.

Some people are always open for coffee, some need a strong reason, and some people simply don't meet with strangers regardless of how strong your ask is.

«We've deliberately looked for people who are builders, who've been there with growth companies, who are best in class at what they do, and we really don't care where they're located, because at this small size we can do everything on the phone, and we use GoTo Meeting and Skype,» she says.

Typically used to explain away someone's poor behavior, like the top salesperson who treats people badly or the great engineer who is rude during meetings, the loose translation of this statement is, «Even though it's my job as a boss to address this issue, and I wouldn't let anyone else behave that way, I don't feel like dealing with it.»

To protect yourself from West African schemes, investigators warn not to get involved financially with anyone you have not met in person.

Insisting that it's possible to be the life of the party or to meet people over and over at an event and not have to pay any consequences is a disservice to anyone who has struggled with this personality type.

According to The Telegraph, Brits like to cut through the rigmarole and meet in person much sooner so as to not waste anyone's time with potentially misleading communication and emoji - deciphering.

A CNN reporter deleted a tweet on Thursday evening that included a picture of President - elect Donald Trump's meeting with Japan's prime minister — but not before several people noticed that it showed that Trump's daughter Ivanka was in the room.