«All these people in this room don't find a solution.
I've known of women who ended up allowing people in the room they didn't want to have in there, simply because they didn't want to say «no.»
The people in the room did not condemn me, they smiled, had tears in their eyes and hugged me as they prayed over me.
Not exact matches
(See How to Deal with Time Wasters) Such sessions rarely accomplish anything except maybe some pseudo-bonding; they don't have a logical and clearly - understood endpoint so they seem both pointless and interminable; and, most often, they sorta drool to a conclusion without agreed - upon action items and / or documented next steps for at least half the
people in the
room.
«You've got 12
people in a
room and everyone has to say what they
do» to improve efficiency, Handmaker says.
Some
people actually try to
do deliberative things whilst sleeping, like turning on the lights
in a
room.
And one of the things I'm excited about — hopefully you'll have some more time now that you've turned over the CEO role — that
people like you and me can sit
in a
room and say let's forget about what we believe and don't believe.
Confident
people are perceived as being more attractive, they're better at sales and
do well
in the front of the
room.
«I think the assumption is we were trying to create a game machine and a tablet and really what we were trying to
do was create a game system that gave you tablet - like functionality for controlling that system and give you two screens that would allow different
people in the living
room to play
in different ways.
A security
person came and put it
in a large garbage bag, as he
did not want to leave the
room with a body part.
But simply putting
people together
in one
room does not make for a fulfilling experience.
It's a positive thing if you understand the obligations involved
in responding to an invitation to be a speaker: the obligation to share your thoughts if you know more than the other
people in the
room, and the obligation to not share your thoughts if you don't know more than the other
people in the
room.
Zuckerberg, who sounded awed that he'd go to parties on campus and end up
in people's
rooms and see Facebook windows open,
did not have world domination on the brain.
That party could have a political discussion
in the kitchen or
people doing keg stands
in the living
room, but it's all about that whole range of human expression.
But just pulling
people together
in a
room is often less important than what they were
doing on their own.
Don't drink your own Kool - Aid or try to be the smartest
person in the
room.
Everyone knows to arrive early, but here's what most
people don't know: there may be gatekeepers, but having time to cool your heels
in the waiting
room for 30 minutes looks sloppy.
Just because someone is a boss doesn't make him or her the smartest
person in the
room.
Mark arrived,
did some taped interviews, came to the green
room and chatted with Eric, talked to
people with enough juice to get
in the door — he could not have been nicer.
On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new
in a writer's
room, and you don't know what to
do or say: One, be the
person who holds the marker and stands at the board.
In my thirty - year career, I've never seen a board room resolve not to invest in professional development because they don't care about peopl
In my thirty - year career, I've never seen a board
room resolve not to invest
in professional development because they don't care about peopl
in professional development because they don't care about
people.
My most successful clients understand their limitations, listen to others and don't have to be the smartest
person in the
room.
When I
did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time
doing digital anthropology... going to chat
rooms and getting
people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about
in person.
When the co-founder of California - based Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) isn't sitting
in the middle of a 70 -
person trading
room or staring at a Bloomberg machine, he's
doing yoga at a health club across the street, thinking of his best ideas.
The crowded
room keeps
people pumped up, Rettig says, «
Do you want to go a bar or restaurant with four
people in it?
And watches out for big egos: «One thing I watch for:
Do they have to be the smartest
person in the
room?»
«That
person, within 10 or 15 minutes, is just
doing a little email, and 10 minutes later is building a ship
in a bottle because they've lost track of the meeting and it's hard to hear what's going on
in the
room.»
This doesn't have to mean an expensive re-design, but instead, outfitting available
rooms with the right tools: pens and notepads and whiteboards
in conference
rooms, outlets throughout the office space so
people take their laptops and break free of the desk.
In navigating the hallways between his panel
room and a nearby corridor, he was approached four times by
people seeking a moment to
do an elevator pitch or ask how to apply to his fund.
So, all of a sudden, it doesn't seem like such a big deal if we make the right decisions so long as the right
people are
in the
room.
You won't be the smartest
person in the
room, but the fact is, you don't need to be.
You don't need to be the loudest
person in the
room.
But while those are important, they don't leave much
room for
people — a crucial factor
in the
people economy, where personal relationships and humanity determine success.
«When you travel alone, you force yourself into a survival mode where you have to
do things and you have to meet
people and you have to push yourself to figure out what's going on unless you want to be
in your
room all day,» he says «It's the most exhilarating, inspiring, creative thing that there is.»
Especially as the workforce makes
room for Millennials who need purpose
in their work,
people need to feel as if they're
doing something awesome.
But most
people in the
room, French and English alike, soon forgot about politics when Harrison started speaking about improving railway performance, which he has repeatedly proved he can
do like nobody else
in the business, so long as he is allowed to
do things his way.
Chances are, one
person in the
room is
doing the majority of the talking, while everyone else listens and nods along.
You can find yourself
in a
room with
people who are financing the film who don't watch movies themselves.
A Danish study found that as the number of
people working
in a
room increased, so
did the relative number of sick days — and
people who worked
in fully open offices were out 62 % more than their cubed counterparts.
«When I walk
in a
room and I'm the only woman, or the only
person of color, I don't for a second forget that,» Saintil said.
Trump on the Parkland school shooting: «I really believe I'd run
in there even if I didn't have a weapon and I think most of the
people in this
room would have
done that too» https://t.co/sSidYENiQQ
Many towns
do not have rules
in place to deal with an online service for
people to rent out their
rooms or homes on a short - term basis.
You should keep
in mind that whenever you publicly disclose information about yourself online — for example, via message boards or chat
rooms — that information could be collected and used by
people whom you
do not know.
«I
did a workshop, sent out roughly 4,000 letters with a variation of the invitation you developed, put 42
people in the
room (after turning away some) and I ended up with 18 appointments.
But
people who inhabit the executive suites, board
rooms, and trading floors don't need this chart to tell you what happened, especially those who grew up
in the»80s and»90s when «going public» was the epitome of success.
We'll use smartphones to scan for risk factors of high blood pressure or type - 2 diabetes, «visit» with specialists remotely at medical kiosks — and when we
do go for an
in -
person exam, we'll spend the bulk of time seeing the doctor rather than reading old magazines
in the waiting
room.
«
People think when they are giving to, say, a Salvation Army or Goodwill, that all of that is going to be resold
in their stores, and it's just not, because they don't have enough
room for that,» she says.
You can get all the right
people in the
room to think about a certain process and re-imagine how it could be
done from the ground up.»
But what I'll
do is make sure that the right
people are
in the
room and that the lunatic fringe has an opportunity to contribute.»
«It's a shame [Secretary of State] Rex Tillerson was
in the same
room as the North Korean foreign minister, who is a reasonable
person, and that discussion didn't occur,» Delury said.