Sentences with phrase «people are speaking at»

DEVICES like Amazon's Echo and Google Home can usually deal with requests from a lone person, but like us they struggle in situations such as a noisy cocktail party, where several people are speaking at once.

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Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum, Cook said that what is missing from society is that there aren't enough people willing to listen, understand, and participate.

«Speaking and exhibiting at a trade show is the ultimate one - two punch, as it maximizes your budget to get in front of as many people as possible.»

«Other people have to be able to speak for your brand,» says Jonah Berger, author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and the James G. Campbell Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Some people think that marketing is completely sales, and if one were to speak to an insurance salesman at a networking event, they would probably agree.

As Recode's Kara Swisher noted when writing up her interview: «Note to Mark: You are the right and only person to speak for Facebook at this point in the controversy.»

Speaking at a regular news briefing, Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said the message the People's Liberation Army was sending with its exercises was «extremely clear».

I speak of bosses who express visible and public anger, yelling across hallways and conference rooms at the drop of a hat, or marching to other departments to «tell someone off» without realizing the fishbowl they work in (yes, people watch, take notes, and many are affected by it).

Whenever I speak at events across the country, I break down leadership to its most basic and practical form: It's about meeting the needs of people and developing them to their fullest potential.

Speaking to 30 people at a luncheon isn't as effective as exhibiting at a national convention attended by thousands.

Trump recently told one confidant that he was «tired of being told no» by Kelly and has instead chosen to simply not tell Kelly things at all, according to a person who was not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations and spoke on condition of anonymity.

While it may not always work, at the very least you'll look to your co-workers as though you're speaking calmly and the other person is being irrational.

In order to stay ahead of the festive pile on, we spoke to some people who are at the top of their game.

Last March at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Moscow in March, I was scheduled to speak about women in entrepreneurship to a host of people from around the globe.

One way to grow into a person of influence is to volunteer to speak at civic and community events.»

How useful is your company's approach for their readers or the people they speak to at events?

They can keep in touch with friends, look at photos of their vacations, read news stories they suggest, play time - wasting games, invite people to their parties and speak and be heard.

This instance at Yelp demonstrates is that the company had not built a culture that allows people to freely express themselves and speak truth to power.

The potential deal, which arose as the New York - based start - up was seeking funding, likely values Boxed at between $ 325 million and $ 500 million, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Speaking at an event in front of thousands of people can be exciting and lead to more opportunity but speaking at a company can be more proSpeaking at an event in front of thousands of people can be exciting and lead to more opportunity but speaking at a company can be more prospeaking at a company can be more profitable.

It was geek - speak basically, the English language as spoken by people who had four screens of computer code open at once.

Speaking of alcohol, don't be that person at the party.

If you develop your listening skills and become an exceptional listener, you'll be amazed at how attentive people will be when you finally do speak your mind.

Some of these people speak at conferences, which is a great opportunity for approaching them.

Contribute a few comments on this issue during a meeting — you may be surprised at how seriously people take the input of someone who speaks sparingly!

Speaking at schools and community centers across America, I was inspired to write this book when I saw an underserved need for a guide that would show aspiring and current entrepreneurs how to leverage their personal habits and goals to make themselves into the type of person a successful entrepreneur is.»

Some people are stubborn or hesitant to speak up about going home and will try to work through sickness when they're actually at their most contagious.»

The engineer at Ford who spoke out about the faulty air bags is the kind of person you want on your team.

«I was attending a lot of conferences, speaking on women in tech, and I noticed at these conferences that there were virtually no women, virtually no black people and definitely no black women,» she recalls.

INSIDER spoke to Matthew Hussey, dating expert at howtogettheguy.com, about all the signals people give off when they're secretly into you — and the best ways to (subtly) return the favor.

You might think that the average age of the people you're speaking to is 45 - 54, only to look at your analytics and uncover that 25 - 34 is the most dominant age group.

Arrange for speaking opportunities at conferences or attend trade shows to let people see how knowledgeable you are even when aren't selling directly to them.

Elliott does not seem to share those qualms: On at least three occasions, according to both court testimony and the accounts of seven people who spoke with Fortune, children of people facing the hedge fund's attack have been pulled into the fray in some way, in an apparent bid to gain either information on or leverage against their parents.

For many organizations, you will also need some people with video skills: typically speaking, someone with an aptitude for shooting and someone who is good at editing.

The most unnerving incident was when one of Kleinfeld's daughters, a student at Harvard Business School, was approached on campus by someone who asked to «friend» her on Facebook; the person also spoke to her friends, fishing for information about her family.

When people see recordings of their presentations, they're often surprised at how fast they speak.

Speaking at events is a great way to get your company's name out to people already interested in your industry.

The SkyBell HD for $ 199 is a smart doorbell that sends live video to your smartphone so you can see, hear and speak to the person at your door.

«At the time, I didn't know that, generally speaking, you don't ask people to be on the board unless they're vested in the company,» she says.

What frustrated me was that these conferences were asking people to pay a large fee in order to speak at the event,» Thomas Ma says.

GOP Representatives Ron DeSantis and Jeff Duncan both said a man police identified as Hodgkinson spoke to them just before the shooting and asked whether the people at the baseball practice were Republicans or Democrats.

The rest of my time is spent working on launching a beer school series in Toronto and preparing to speak at beer festivals — the latter of which involves coming up with fun ways to talk about beer to people who've been drinking it all day, which is challenging.

You want the person looking at the ad to feel as if you're speaking directly to them.

And when you remove debt - free households from the equation — people with either no debt or no credit to speak of — the average debt load was more than double that, at $ 15,609.

If you have a fear of associating with people, you have to go out there and do it, and it's painful... When I was young and completed the [public speaking] course, I was worried I would lapse back... so I started teaching a class at night and, you know, you've got to force yourself to do some things sometimes.»

Speaking of overwhelming, saving for retirement, as you said, is sort of a big challenge and the good news in the report and the survey is that when people have a retirement plan at work, they feel more confident, they feel more comfortable.

May was in Kelowna Saturday to speak to more than 300 people at the First United Church.

Like the other people I spoke with at Vanguard Monica also assured me that Vanguard were in the process of hiring more team members for the personal advisor service.

CEO Levy, who had been scheduled to meet with investors yesterday and give a speech at a media conference organized by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London, spoke instead via videoconference from a remote location, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked not to be identified because the event wasn't public.