Sentences with phrase «talk the talk of»

Plenty of companies talk the talk of empowerment, autonomy, and teamwork.

The lawyer talks the talk of the new minimalism, and like Johan's pared.

Not exact matches

The most effective salespeople, for instance, have been shown to only talk about 30 percent of the time — the rest is spent listening.

«It does feel like all of my videos have been an expression of things I want to relay to my sister, or things I wish I could talk to my sister about.

Talking to Robertson about trade timelines makes a mockery of the idea that there are simple tweaks out there.

We're not talking about huge sums, of course.

She wasn't talking about meatless Mondays, a staycation instead of visiting Rome, or carpooling.

Following the talk by Rice in Beijing this fall, GE hosted a panel whose speakers included Joachim von Amsberg, a World Bank veteran who is now a vice president at the new AIIB, and China's former vice minister of foreign affairs, He Yafei.

When I am done speaking, there is often a group of people that will want to come up to me to chat, or I seek out the most engaged person to talk to.

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Rafiq Jumabhoy, Orkney Holdings chairman and former CEO of Scotts Holdings, talks about the importance of ownership and control structures.

As a business, it's your job to track your reputation on social media — to be aware of who is talking about you, what they're saying and when.

After collecting my desired profile for a potential board member; she returned a week later with eight candidates, all of whom fit the profile and were at least tacitly interested in talking with me.

This clip talks about what Vine is, how to use Vine, and shows examples of Vine in action.

When you talk about it at the level of professions, it's really hard.

The focus of Musk's new presentation, which updates a 2016 talk he gave at the International Astronautical Congress, was the «Big F — ing Rocket,» or BFR.

«We hope that when we're talking to this disembodied assistant that we have the same amount of privacy as we would if we were hiring our own personal assistant,» says Christopher Parsons, research associate at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.

Without experiencing it, Slack admittedly sounds like garden - variety instant messaging; the difficulty of quickly summarizing what it's good at means that converts often have a wooly, evangelical way of talking about it.

Especially with matters of business, I'm never afraid that people won't want to talk back to me about what they're up to, or that I might offend them by asking such questions.

Baehr's mentor, Walter Hailey, whose insurance company Lone Star Life Insurance went on to become a Kmart insurance company, used to take an hour - long walk at 5 a.m. every morning with a group of close friends to talk about ideas, successes and failures.

Until we can openly talk about the concepts of nurture versus nature and discrimination versus choice, we not only won't solve any problems but we also won't be able to identify if there is a problem to begin with.

So it helps when it is the decision makers that we are talking to, and we don't have to go through three or four layers of people to get a decision made.

Many candidates are prepared to talk about the high points of their career, but to get a full scope of how you will adjust to the job, hiring managers also want to see how you handle situations that don't go as planned.

Kiely then glanced over his shoulder before Lakos — the economist doing the talking — crossed through the trading floor to the studio at the end of his 90 - second interview.

Woodside Petroleum has deferred a final decision on expansion of its Pluto gas project, but the company's chief executive Don Voelte has still talked up its development record, saying it was five years ahead of industry rival Chevron.

«We're talking about highly centralized platforms who, in theory, have the most to lose from the advent of decentralized technologies and platforms,» Pakman said.

I think your assertions around the key variables that impact workforce productivity are spot on.One of the other variables I would like to contribute is in relation to the employees themselves, as you also talk about employee engagement when referring to staff morale.

«Foxconn has a history of talking big and not necessarily delivering on their commitments,» Alliance president Scott Paul said.

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

In it, James Cowan wrote about how Canadians like to talk about innovation providing the economy of the future, but we aren't actually doing much to promote it.

Verizon has reportedly been in talks to acquire startup carrier Mobilicity, and there are reports it has made an initial $ 700 - million offer for Wind Mobile, another of Canada's small telecoms.

If she were to write the Democrats» autopsy for 2016 - and she'll have a hand in it as one of the newly elected co-chairs of the House Democrats» policy and messaging arm - she says her message would be to «not only talk about jobs and the economy, but do something about it.»

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has bought his way in to talks with China's President Xi Jinping, South Korea's President Moon Jae - in, and US President Donald Trump with a commitment to denuclearize his country — but doing so could open up the world to the tremendous risk of loose nukes and loose nuclear scientists.

And who cares if a couple of people think I'm being an attention whore for talking about this in such a real way if it actually does help change a few minds?

It's a 3 - foot - tall talking bot, complete with a surveillance cam, a touch screen tablet and tons of apps, you know, to keep your kid occupied and happy when you can't.

How often were these the topic of constant chatter on the major talk radio programs?

Because obviously the more success people have on it, the more they're going out and meeting new people as a result of using Hinge, the more they talk about it, and the more it spreads.

We talk about the detail of the photography — getting more up - close and personal shots of the products so the customer can see the quality and the detail.

Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

Talking with SCORE mentors who've been in your business, scouring the state department of transportation website, and talking with officials at the city / town and state level should provide you with everything you need tTalking with SCORE mentors who've been in your business, scouring the state department of transportation website, and talking with officials at the city / town and state level should provide you with everything you need ttalking with officials at the city / town and state level should provide you with everything you need to know.

I have enjoyed talking to some of the Valley entrepreneurs about this, and I am impressed [at] how early they are thinking about giving back — much earlier than I did.

Facebook (FB), of course, also makes a point of talking about the «interest graph» that it has developed around all of its billion or so users.

Choice 1: Be a part of the «yard society,» playing cards all day, shucking and jiving with the fellas, talking about past and future crimes I had committed or planned to commit... or

Check out Shermer's short talk for a more in - depth explanation of each question:

He took my leadership class and followed the development of my Leadership and the Environment keynote talk (a work - in - progress).

Re / code talked to After School's creators — Cory Levy and Michael Callahan (of One, a San Francisco - based social media startup), and asked them some questions about their app and about how they plan on combatting the obvious strain of bullying that goes hand - in - hand with anonymous apps such as theirs.

First up this afternoon, talks with buyers in San Francisco about the launch of next fall's collection.

So, instead of worrying about it, concentrate on what you want to communicate, such as asking good questions, not engaging in time - wasting small talk, and looking people in the eyes.

How to Build Better Business Relationships: Listen More Than You Talk «We all want to extol our strengths, our virtues in hopes of impressing others and, ultimately, getting more business,» says Alisa Cohn, an executive coach.

«The American people, including many of my members, don't trust the reform we are talking about will be implemented as we intended it to be,» Boehner said.