Sentences with phrase «than the boss of»

Nobody in a hundred (or even fifty) years time will care «what the IPCC models really say» (to quote your RealClimate reference) any more than the boss of Ryanair cares about the opinion of the Village Blacksmiths» Union.

Not exact matches

One of the top ways you signal to your boss or coworkers that you're bored, impatient, or generally disinterested is by leaning back rather than into the conversation.

Further, there is far more involved in transitioning from being an employee of others to becoming your own boss than you may realize.

One extra detail the researchers found: managers benefitted from the psychological impact of more open office plans — employees thought more highly of their boss's leadership abilities in this setting than in any other office type.

I've never seen the Justice Department do this, other than with Hoffa,» he said, likening Holder to Robert F. Kennedy and suggesting that like the investigations of the infamous Teamsters boss, the bank may not be getting its due process.

These types of bosses are more than just challenging (which is usually a positive trait)-- they're unreasonable.

Arguing that we would be better off being managed by an algorithm rather than a human being seems to disregard the lack of humanity that defines truly horrible bosses.

«We had no idea that the people coming and going to meetings were the likes of the Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson, the boss of Boeing or a distraught bank manager (on more than one occasion).»

When she told her boss, a senior partner, the news, she received perfunctory congratulations, followed by some off - the - record advice: «If you want to make partner someday, you'd better not take more than a few months of maternity leave.»

The former Exxon Mobil CEO's departure caps more than a year of policy clashes, sometimes public, with his boss.

«This is usually not your boss, but someone in your organisation, perhaps of a different generation, a little bit older than you, who's knows the ropes and who knows what's appropriate,» Pollak said.

And while you probably would have to go through your boss (or, in the case of entrepreneurs, dip into your less - than - overflowing bank account) to get a raise or switch up your responsibilities, meaning is entirely yours to control.

5) Finally, if the decision were being made by a team, or members of a hierarchy, rather than by an individual, would members feel empowered to speak their mind if they felt the team, or their boss, was making a bad decision?

Underpinning Bravo's depiction of the power dynamics between a boss and her underlings (played out in the open floor plan of a cramped SoHo loft), are the very real problems of a working business: What to do if your client doesn't pay, how to deliver on a tight budget, and even what if your assistant ordered more printer paper than toilet paper.

That person is surprisingly well suited to become the boss of others who were better than them in any one of those areas.

Now I'm sure that it's more than a little frustrating to all those folks waiting in the wings or right outside the office — hoping that their request or project is still on the top of the pile — or worse yet, getting ready to dump some new problem in their boss's lap.

Be more of a coach to your employees than a boss.

That 12 % tends to be much happier at work than those who scored their bosses» goal - setting at the bottom end of the scale.

And as the Guardian recently reportedly, these concerns are shared by a whole host of lesser known but still hugely influential technologists who, having less financial stake in talking up current realities than tech company bosses, are often even more frank about their worries.

If your boss or a teammate lays out an exhaustive list of detailed instructions on how to complete something, rather than just tell you where the finish line for a goal is, it's a big sign that they don't trust that you either know how to do it or will do it properly in their eyes, Kerr says.

Entrepreneurs love babies as much as anyone (and are just as understanding of the stresses of new parenthood), but they're also more likely that corporate bosses to lack the money and manpower that makes losing a key employee for weeks or months anything less than terrifying.

UK - based Sky, with more than 20 million customers for its sports, entertainment and news channels across Europe, is at the centre of a three - way battle for control between Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox, Walt Disney and Comcast and their veteran bosses.

When DDI surveyed more than 500 employees and 500 business leaders, they found a high percentage of bosses claimed they do everything in their power to encourage their team to come up with creative solutions.

More than 4 out of 5 employees surveyed wanted to hear more frequently from their bosses about how their company was doing.

Your boss forces you to play the role of mind reader in order to figure out what they actually want, rather than simply telling you outright.

The benefits of being my own boss, setting my own hours and doing whatever I want more than offset those tangible payoffs.

If you're left out of meetings, rarely get face time with upper management, and have never even heard of the big project everyone else is so excited about, that could mean that your bosses just see you as a body filling a desk, rather than as a valuable contributor.

From larger, more established startups like Valve to newer ones like Treehouse, getting rid of managers who boss people around is a deliberate tactic to build the kind of culture that pushes forward creativity and collaboration, with everyone leading rather than following.

It worked in the case of the perpetually tardy employee — in the end, her boss tried praising her contribution rather than showing off his acrobatic skills — and will work for you, Lipson insists.

That morning, with business slow, his bosses agreed to let him take a trio of new Land Cruisers, each with less than 1,000 miles on the odometer, to Baghdad's airport.

But with the average age of public administration directors much higher than most professions, you're best bet to get one of these jobs will be to wait for your boss to retire or annoy the wrong person in the government of the day.

«Experienced leaders are more likely to overestimate their abilities,» writes Eurich, «Similarly, older managers tend to misjudge their performance relative to their boss's ratings of them far more than their younger peers do.»

More often than not, owners of businesses capable of attracting a buyer and being sold love what they do, and they especially love being the boss.

The appeal is obvious — robot bosses can automatically and with a high degree of accuracy accomplish exponentially more than those of us constrained by fallible old meat brains.

(I'd bet a parachute's worth of Junior Mints that more than one poor marketer was called into her boss's office this morning and tasked with staging some sort of «Best Picture» moment.)

More than a third of workers think they can do a better job than their boss.

And where better to look than a place where workers are casting off their chains, running their factories by direct democracy and (according to the workers) doing a better job of it than their former bosses?

What could be better than a room full of passionate Pure Barre boss ladies (and gents)?!

Done well, this process — which shouldn't take more than a couple of hours — will give you an extraordinarily effective and quick method to answer these questions and look like a content marketing genius to your boss or your client.

Today, more than 10 million Americans call themselves the boss.1 Entrepreneurism is an important piece of this country's economy and has long been viewed as the traditional means to creating wealth.

While, 49 per cent of American entrepreneurs in their 20s say they went into business to be their own boss, this is substantially lower than the 64 per cent of American entrepreneurs in their 50s.

In particular, the next generation of entrepreneurs in their 20s and 30s are much less driven by the desire to be the boss and to make money than those in their 50s.

Stéfane Marion, who is Arseneau's boss at National Bank, says the more reliable measure of wages is found in StatsCan's quarterly reports on gross domestic product, which rely on hard numbers rather than interviews over the phone.

This explains why a Millennial would rather work for someone who is a mentor, leader, or coach rather than someone who is given the title of boss.

Jen @ PF Carny writes Steps to Determine If You Are Ready to Open Your Own Business — If you are working for «the man» at a 9 to 5 job, you may dream of nothing more than venturing out on your own and being your own boss.

Comey describes Trump's presidency as a «forest fire,» likens the president to a mob boss, and says Trump pressured him more than once to investigate the «pee tape» in previews of the tell - all, which will be released April 17.

From drivers, to designers, to management consultants — people have more opportunities than ever to supplement existing income streams or to take the leap into being their own boss,» said Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager of Self - Employed Solutions at Intuit.

Without a doubt, the meetings with my baby - boomer assistant, daily conversations with my Gen - X boss and other interactions with clients and colleagues taught me and challenged me more than I could have ever imagined after spending most of the previous four years around people my age.

There's potential here for a political edge, too, one that was absent from the old series (that absence is fine, for the record, but it is worth thinking about a version of The Office that plays with more than just boss / employee relationships).

OK.Thanks for the unfounded generalizations.Please don't pick on us for refusing to follow the great MAFIA - BOSS in the sky.Why do you insist upon insulting people who think differently than you.Does it make sense when Muslims insult and threaten you and your way of life?..