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Surprisingly, the survey also found 41 percent of small - business leaders would be skeptical of artificial intelligence's ability to accurately help with their administrative tasks, even though the majority of them spent two or more hours per day on admin work.

Willem spends much of his time on the road reporting from major European cities and beyond, speaking to business and political leaders about Brexit and its implications, US - Europe relations, and international security.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

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Over the years, I've spent a lot of time talking to executive leaders about how they run their businesses.

For help and inspiration in my efforts to persuade business leaders to run their companies in a socially responsible way, I enjoy spending time with Jamie Oliver and Jochen Zeitz, both of whom have built successful companies that make a difference.

A recent Compas poll of Canadian CEOs and business leaders, sked whether spending in various areas should increase, decrease or stay the same.

Additionally, the International Monetary Fund is calling on leaders of developed countries to boost government expenditures to cover shortfalls in business and consumer spending.

Since January, entrepreneurs from across America have fought hard against President Trump's travel ban, which prohibited citizens from six predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.. On Monday, those business leaders took a heavy blow and some spent the day licking their wounds instead of speaking up.

So how can you learn what you need to know about politics as a business leader without spending loads of time boning up on tons of specifics?

According to the survey, the top concerns of small business owners over the next year are the effectiveness of government leaders, commodities prices, healthcare costs, recovery of consumer spending and the strength of the U.S. dollar.

My company is in the field of sports and technology, so all the time I spend learning about leading tech companies, investing in startups, and networking with other entrepreneurs, business leaders, celebrity athletes, or investors brings value back to CoachUp.

Given the dramatic drop in prices over the past year, the Bank has spent a lot of time speaking with business leaders to try to gauge precisely how they will react.

The U.S. and China look to «spend the next year developing how we deal with each other over a period of time,» Lighthizer told U.S. business leaders on Tuesday.

Just like the rest of us, big business leaders grow conservative and try to shrink spending during tough times, says Adam Galinsky, a professor of ethics and management at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

«As business leaders seek to improve the impact of marketing and sales spend in 2016, this new study reveals powerful truths about a fundamental and often misunderstood element of their strategy — understanding the buyers they serve.

Having spent time working at SMB and ecommerce leaders like Constant Contact and Salsify, he has a deep understanding of how to help small and medium sized ecommerce businesses be all that they can be.

«Over the course of my career, I've met and spent time with many leaders in the business community.

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....

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein believes the Senate GOP will come around to backing the continuation of a surcharge on the wealthy in order to fund education spending, a phase out of tuition costs and potentially cuts to business taxes.

Signing up to stringent and probably unnecessary spending cuts and a deferential attitude to business leaders will be of little help in achieving this.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer has also announced a «Red Tape Commission,» made up of various business and community leaders, that will spend a year producing recommendations for streamlining the regulatory process.

Business leaders have expressed concern about the high level of public spending, the need for better vocational education, and most recently, how Britain is meeting its energy needs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo spent Sunday in Israel, a trip that sought to show solidarity amid a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in United States as well as one to meet with business leaders to discuss economic development efforts with New York.

Half his career has been spent in business, half in government at the highest levels, most recently doing an excellent job as Leader of the House of Lords where he has proven a skilled negotiator respected by all parties.

The Daily News reported last fall that Mr. Cuomo's office had reined in the commission when it was trying to investigate tax breaks for the powerful real estate industry, persuading it not to subpoena the Real Estate Board of New York, whose leaders gave generously to the governor's campaigns and supported the Committee to Save New York, a business coalition that spent millions on ads supporting the Cuomo agenda.

A group called Rebuild New York Now is creating a coalition of government leaders, organized labor and private business to urge Albany to spend the windfall on fixing the state's declining infrastructure.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo today urged Upstate leaders and business owners to lobby Albany lawmakers in favor of his $ 150 billion spending plan, which he says includes $ 10 billion to help Upstate communities.

Supporters of the approach say the state has prompted new discussion among the business and civic leaders of the areas in which the councils operate and has made it much easier to apply for and observe the decision - making process for how taxpayer funds are spent.

Mr Ashcroft, a millionaire business tycoon who spends most of his time in Belize, was nominated by Tory leader William Hague and is included in a list of new working peers published on Friday.

Gates's call for increased spending on energy R&D echoed recommendations he made late last year as a member of a blue - ribbon panel of U.S. business leaders convened by the Washington - based American Energy Innovation Council.

School business leaders are under pressure to balance the books, so it has never been more important to justify the educational benefits of trips and ensure that the maximum educational benefit is derived from every pound spent.

Last week, I spent some time reading through the Global Human Capital Trends 2016 Report by Deloitte, which includes facts based on the responses of 7,000 HR and business leaders from 130 countries worldwide, and went through the High - Impact Talent Management study results by the same firm.

If community and business leaders think the work can all be left to educators, they will soon find that their initiatives are pale imitations of Houston's and not worth the time and money spent on them.

John Longworth, director general of the BCC, said: «Business and school leaders are clear — we won't bridge the gap between the world of education and the world of work unless young people spend time in workplaces while still at school.

The study, which polled 1,000 15 - 17 year olds and 1,000 parents with children of the same age, as well as 100 senior business leaders, shows that the pursuit of good grades is affecting the ability of teens to spend time developing important skills which could be of benefit in later life.

An alliance of business and political leaders in the state had urged Brown to sign Assembly Bill 709, which would have required that all charters be transparent about how they spend public funds, and would have barred charter school board members and their relatives from profiting from their schools.

Putting all the weight on the poor might appeal to some conservatives and some business leaders as a way to hold down taxes, because enhanced spending is only required for a relatively small percentage of the population.

ASCL, which released the survey ahead of its conference for business leaders on Thursday, said the cutbacks were a result of government spending on education failing to keep pace with rising costs, with # 2.8 bn cut from school budgets since 2015.

A committee of nearly 300 educators, business leaders and others spent the past 14 months studying education funding in Michigan.

President Obama's administration is pushing to raise the nation's debt limit an additional $ 2 trillion, which currently stands at $ 14.3 trillion and issued dire warnings from business leaders that failing to OK the increase will lead to inflation, an immediate doubling of «Interest Rates» and a killer «Wall Street Crash» — House Speaker John Boehner, R - Ohio, says the GOP will demand trillions in spending cuts before considering an increase in the debt ceiling.

I spend a lot of my time saying to business leaders, we are citizens of the world.

In Canada, today's political and business leaders want to privatize profits and socialize losses, all the while chanting the shortsighted mantra that civic spending is, if not evil, some perverted form of socialism.

To ensure these digitalisation projects succeed, business leaders and their senior management team will spend hours, days, and months building a framework for implementing the more practical elements of this digital change; the timeframes, the budgets, the human capital required, and the projected ROI.

They spend a lot of time in direct contact with senior business leaders and decision - makers.

As an award - winning and innovative thought leader in the Talent Acquisition space, Tangie Pettis has spent over 19 years as a strategic recruitment business partner within some of the most well - known companies and organizations across the nation including Enterprise Rent - A-Car, Home Depot (RPO), DaVita, Charlotte Russe, Aeropostale, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Spend the majority of working hours speaking to business leaders and other customers.

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«Real estate is a local business, but each company has its own value proposition,» he says, adding that brokers and agents need to spend more time sizing up franchises by meeting with various leaders in a brokerage, including the heads of marketing, training, and information technology.