Sentences with phrase «only business colleagues»

Its small size, high quality events, and activities create an environment for lawyers of similar caliber to get to know each other and become not only business colleagues but friends.

Not exact matches

The only thing I ask for is patience, and most importantly, that the President of the Generalitat (Puigdemont) and his colleagues urgently denounce the movement for independence in public to give the Catalan people and businesses peace and security,» he said.

The tax is heavily opposed by the business community and many Conservatives, however, and Osborne may have to push his colleagues to convince them that raising taxes on the rich is the only way to give the poor a tax cut.

«This decision comes after a lengthy meeting we held with the MTA, DOT and my colleagues in government, urging further consideration about the potential impact that removing significant parking and creating a bus - only lane could have on small businesses,» said Deutsch.

Woodward's attempt to present the concern as an issue troubling only a minority of MPs was followed by Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, seen as Brown's deputy prime minister in all but name, who issued a statement through a spokesman in which he stressed that the prime minister «continues to have the support of his colleagues».

«I hear it from not only constituents and business owners, I hear it — oddly enough — from my own colleagues in the New York State Assembly,» said Assemblyman John T. McDonald III, an Albany Democrat who co-sponsored a bill on ride - sharing this year.

My colleagues at Guardian Business are having problems because these hearings are normally broadcast live on parliament website, but there's a problem this morning because the hearing was only scheduled at the last moment.

«I am really looking forward to a dynamic collaboration with my studio colleagues who not only have a collective passion for film and the theatrical experience, but the evolution of our business at large.»

Most successful businesses would not hire entry - level college graduates for the most challenging positions, only to fail to provide them with time to collaborate with colleagues and learn new skills.

The private money lender may only lend to business colleagues, friends and family while the hard money lender will be open to lending to any borrower that meets their lending requirements.

One recent study by Malcolm Baker of Harvard Business School and colleagues found dramatic results: from 1968 to 2012 a dollar invested in the 20 % of U.S. stocks with the lowest volatility grew to $ 81.66, while a dollar invested in the 20 % with the highest volatility grew to only $ 9.76.

The business part shouldn't eclipse the art part, for me... although i know your work is dedicated to self - promotion and my mindset is changing... thanks to you and your colleagues on TAA — but it's quite a slow change for me — I've only just joined Twitter!!

Back when I only covered sustainable business, my colleagues and I lamented the word sustainability - if we could only have a sexier, cooler word, we thought, the concept would surely sell itself more easily, and everyone, including the earth, would

«Over the course of 2018, I will be working to expand the adoption of science - based targets not only across the Mahindra Group, but amongst my business colleagues so that by the Global Climate Action Summit in September, 500 companies step up and commit to set science - based targets,» he said.

Shhhh, Mike, if people realise that Business Green has a sales manager, they might get the idea that you guys are only about making money, not saving the planet, and that you're no better than your colleagues at GFT and Energy Risk.

Not only that, your clients are in the best position to refer new business to you through their friends, colleagues, and family.

Business cards can not only provide valuable contact information to both clients and colleagues, but they can also serve to reflect a lawyer's personality.

My own guess is that «worker bee» partners who aren't really rainmakers benefit most from a move in - house: Not only are they freed from the task of bringing in business but, presumably, they earned less than their breadwinning colleagues at the law firm.

I hope the recommendations above work and that, as you put some of these suggestions into practice, not only will you enhance your standing and the value of your legal department in the eyes of the business, but also to colleagues in the in - house legal profession.

A colleague in a similar line of business — and therefore a good test case for the kind of clients I am after — does use the Yellow Pages, and reports getting only a couple of leads per month.

Show you recognise how this change will affect not only your role but those of your colleagues and the wider business.

My colleague Jonathan Sampson, who has led Hays businesses in both Japan and Brazil, comments that regulations introduced by government are only a «basic framework», and in order to tackle the real root of discrimination «companies should take the initiative to implement specific measures that match their own organisation».

To attract recruiters and secure the best jobs in technology, your CV not only needs to portray your technical knowledge, but should also show your business acumen and ability to communicate with non-technical colleagues.

The best thing about conferences is not only the leisure / fun time away from business, but also the opportunity to meet up with colleagues from far and wide over lunch, coffee breaks, fun nights and the closing dinner.

In real estate, that means engaging your customers, clients, and colleagues in a way that results not only in a successful and satisfying transaction but also in repeat and referral business.

Not only is it easier to remember for tenants and prospective tenants, it is easier for your colleagues and brokers to give it to people when networking, and it fits more readily on a business card if it is short.

We were referred to Verl Workman by a trusted colleague in the industry and after only one year of coaching, we've transitioned into a fully successful real estate business with three employees and five licensed agents.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.