Sentences with phrase «take on his colleague»

Hiram Monserrate proves his willingness to take on his colleagues and also praised him for pushing an ethics reform bill, although the measure didn't go nearly as far as the paper (or the governor and most good government groups, for that matter) had hoped.

«Mark Field, the Conservative MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, could be forced to take on his colleague Sir Malcolm Rifkind.»

Not exact matches

On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my colleague Jen Wieczner and I chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock, about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.

And while your choice of wardrobe can be an important signal to your colleagues of how seriously you take your job, it may also be having a more direct effect on the quality of the work you do.

Your colleagues schedule meetings, your boss checks in on the status of your projects when he walks by your desk or cubicle, and you take breaks to get coffee or lunch with your co-workers where you can discuss projects and goals.

Have you taken on more duties since a colleague left?

Here is my take on how to regain your confidence quickly, plus more insights from my Inc. colleagues.

Many of us overcommit whether it's taking on a new work project before the holidays, agreeing to attend yet another holiday party with a colleague, or baking cookies for your daughter's holiday bake sale.

If your statements still look like facts once they're on paper, take them to a friend or colleague you trust and see if he or she agrees with you.

A mechanical engineer by training, Burns, who proved herself a quick study and an outspoken colleague, blew through the ranks — taking on product development, business planning and a series of managerial roles that in 2000 put her at the center of Xerox's restructuring efforts.

Barkan and his colleague filmed his conversation with Flake, and the video took off on social media.

Continuing to offer no absolute limit on the number of days people can take given that their colleague are happy with their plans

While Holoubek focused on building her colleagues» capacity to function without her, and Downey thrived playing it by ear, Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research took a slightly different tack, actively looping collaborators into the planning process.

My Fortune colleague Erika Fry (also my partner - in - crime for our April cover story on big data, biology, and digital health, which I really hope you'll take some time to read) reports on some ways to look out for your brain.

Two of his colleagues who wrote a book on the myth of the paperless office found, for example, that for non-recreational reading, people usually need three documents simultaneously: one for reference, one for note - taking, and one containing whatever they're reading.

Now, a colleague suggests a new idea on how to take the company even further.

We instructed our employees to plan ahead for projects or goals that may be impacted by taking time off: keep your coworkers and managers informed, let your colleagues know at least two weeks ahead of time when you'll be on vacation, and report in on days you need to be out unexpectedly.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

When I interviewed him in Nashville, he chided his gubernatorial colleagues for relying too heavily on federal stimulus money, saying, «An awful lot of states took that money and treated it as continuing money and not like one - time help.»

The president and some of his colleagues took part in a ceremonial sword dance before a banquet in Saudi Arabia, on May 20.

As my colleagues and I prepare to leave Guangzhou and return home, we're taking time to reflect on the magnitude of our experience in China this week.

If your colleagues think you might steal their thunder and credit, try a land grab for their area or projects, or misspeak on their behalf, they're not going to take any chances.

@carlquintanilla Carl - my colleague, Citizen Journalist Patrick Robson, took this photo of the missing wheel on Delta flight 5507 from LGA to RIC, which made a diverted landing at Dulles.

It has taken a different angle of storage, by creating an easy - to - use platform that allows file - sharing for colleagues to work on the same projects together.

Whether you find a career mentor or grab coffee with a colleague you admire, you won't regret taking time to invest in your career early on.

I know this news is exciting and sexy right now, but if you and your colleagues could maybe acknowledge this guy is going through a real s *** time personally and maybe take it a bit easy on him professionally, it seems like the kind, «non-Silicon Valley», thing to do right now.

It focuses instead on the big picture — on what it would take to change the situation altogether so that the result would be that we wouldn't have to deal with a pugnacious colleague at all.

A colleague who was a real sports fanatic had season tickets in a prime location and would often use the excuse of «extra tickets» to take his clients out on regular outings, but the deal was that they either would both bring their spouses OR a close friend to the game.

And thus I take solace from the fact that my highly able CBPP colleague Ben Spielberg is taking the lead on what I think may be an important paper on being ready for the next downturn.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

In an email to his colleagues, which was shared on Zomato's blog by chief executive officer Deepinder Goyal, Chaddah said that he will take a few months» break before getting «professionally active» again.

«In short: if we're going to take away investors» right to their day in court, I hope my colleagues on the Commission can agree that we should, at least, do so in the light of day.»

Last month he told colleagues that he wasn't planning on leaving the White House to take an outside role.

Around 2012, according to the indictment released on Friday, Mr. Manafort and his colleague Rick Gates «secretly retained a group of former senior European politicians to take positions favorable to Ukraine, including by lobbying in the United States.»

Raymond James advisors say that while the email has not stirred much action or discussion among colleagues, they were happy to see their chief executive take a stand on the proposal.

Advocating for all Albertans is something that my colleagues and I in the UCP caucus understand deserves to be taken up earnestly and honestly with an emphasis being put on democracy.

On All Saints» Day, a Saturday, my colleague Amanda Shaw and I took him to the emergency room at St. Vincent's Hospital after dinner.

Women are afraid that they will not be able to publish in competitive fields at the same rate as their childless colleagues; they are afraid that as new mothers they will no longer be taken seriously as scholars; and they are afraid to take advantage of existing family leave policies in the event that chairmen and colleagues bristle at having to take on additional courses and other work when a new mother takes maternity leave.

He worked so hard that his colleagues encouraged him to take a break and go on a vacation in England with his wife and four daughters.

Reflecting on the meaning of the revolutionary events that were taking place in Asia after the Second World War, Thomas and his colleagues in Asia, brought into the ecumenical thinking their conviction that God, somehow, is at work in the secular events of our time beyond the boundaries of the church.

I base this interpretation, moreover, not on any published material, but on lecture notes taken by Whitehead's Harvard colleague, William Ernest Hocking, during Whitehead's first lecture course at Harvard during the academic year 1924 - 25.

If a historian of Greek religion at times take an interest in recent studies on Iranian or Indian religions, he is less inclined to follow the work of his specialist - colleagues, let us say, in Altaic, Bantu, or Indonesian religions.

When I was working on this recipe, my partner took two batches to work and gave them to his colleagues to try them.

It would have made more sense to evacuate cities much closer, like Philadelphia, even New York... besides which the waste «cloud,» if it were to take place, would have blown directly to the east... where on earth did your colleague's family go to, Alaska?

In the Treasury restructuring, many of the staff whose positions are being scrapped have been given the option of taking a redundancy payout or applying for new «contested roles» where they are vying against colleagues to stay on in a streamlined department.

Then I bought one used from a colleague in pastry school 12 years ago — it lives on top of our refrigerator and works beautifully, though it takes a bit of hefting to move it to the counter when needed.

With the likes of Hector Bellerin, Isaac Hayden and Semi Ajayi already knocking on the door of the Arsenal first team defence, as well as some excellent midfield and attacking options like Chuba Akpom, Benik Afobe, Gedion Zelalem, Daniel Crowley coming through, Jonkers and his colleague have a great chance of taking the academy on to the next level as the former head Liam Brady challenged them to do.

And so, instead of making formal complaints to HR, at least two women began taking contemporaneous notes on their unpleasant exchanges with Ussery and other male colleagues.

If Wilshere can take a leaf out of his colleague's book, in the way that Ozil always seems to find time on the ball and releases it before a tackle comes in, it could prove invaluable to the Englishman.

Ekeng's tragic passing prompted a major outpouring among the African football community on social media, with numerous stars of the continent's game taking to Twitter to pay their respects for their fallen colleague.