Sentences with phrase «think about the business practices»

What do charter school proponents in North Carolina think about the business practices of these for - profit charters?

Not exact matches

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

Sanford J. Schlesinger, cochair of the family - owned - business practice of law firm Kaye Scholer LLP in New York City, urges owners to think about what he terms «asset segregation» to avoid potentially catastrophic personal exposure.

Take some time to think about what your perk should be, and then make it part of your standard business practice.

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a church.

Certification has challenged us to think carefully about every practice and process in our business and to make sure that everything we do is beneficial on a number of levels.»

I could share stories about accountants and even business managers that thought because we were working on the outside edge of professional norm that they could embezzle or fail to follow professional standards because we certainly aren't a credible practice that would care.

I think if nothing else this did raise awareness about Nestle's unethical business practices.

But since subscriber numbers may decrease if the access to journal information becomes free elsewhere, various publishers are thinking about changing their business model: instead of billing readers, they plan to bill authors, a practice that is already common in the form of page charges.

I was wondering if you could share what you feel are the most important distinctions that you share in the 10 - Day Coaches MBA that new coaches, especially, don't understand, and haven't even thought of when they're thinking about starting their coaching practice or their coaching business.

We think it's a problem if a dating site is intentionally using fraudulent business practices such as creating phony profile pages even if they tell you about it.

«When you think about leadership in public education, you soon realize that there are many practices used in business that could be brought to K — 12 schools,» said Grossman.

The district conducts an annual climate survey — reaching parents, students, business people, faculty and staff members from local colleges, and other community partners including members of faith - based organizations — to learn what community people think about school and district programs and practices.

I think that patience, although it is often talked about, is rarely actually practiced in the investment business (at least not to the degree that I think maximizes the chance of great long - term results).

After all, when you think about some of the fund's top holdings — Apple, Alphabet and Facebook — images of employee - friendly workspaces (generous salaries and benefits, nap pods in the office) and environmentally aware business practices abound.

Having spent thousands of hours in shelters as a volunteer, I see these hapless dogs often bounce from home to home, because shelters are not in the business or practice of rehabilitating problem dogs (which shelters also don't utilize the assistance of their skilled local trainers quite enough, in part because they think they know as much about behavior as we trainers do, or think they know enough).

I'm in a position to think singularly about the future and how Sojos can learn from other business best practices I've seen in other categories.

Takeaway Best practices and learnings, starting from handling studio growth, fostering company culture or thinking about exit strategies — but also dealing with publishers, investors and partners in all sorts of situations and growing your business network.

Earlier this year, the 2013 Sustainable Brands conference convened in San Diego, California, and to highlight some of the ideas and initiatives represented at the conference, we asked some of the leading business executives in attendance to share with us how their organizations think about and practice sustainability across the board.

Think about all the accessories that are part of your practice — whether office furniture, office art, your briefcase, or even your business cards.

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton has been helping lawyers think differently about the business of practicing law for... [more]

Sure, I read everyone's posts, articles, books, etc about how it is a business and be ready to run a business and some times it will feel like the practice of law is an after thought, but nothing (aside form previously owning your own business) can prepare you for what it is like to be your own boss.

We think about law practice as a profession as well as a business.

I think what I want to ask you, because it's always interesting to me when I get someone who has been at a firm that size, because the expectations that you have of the technologies that are going to be available to you, because I like to talk a lot about practice management and technology and business development is typically if you are an associate at one of those large firms, you don't tend to do a lot of business development, so marketing is something completely new and different.

But we thought we'd take a little bit of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in law practice and small firm law practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to better serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can often be a lot of active resistance from other lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business better, make the world better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.

«I thought it would be good to build a book of business and then I would have the option to take it to a firm if I decide to make that career transition in the future... I am passionate about being an attorney as a second career and on working on building a law practice, however that plays out — whether as a solo practitioner or at a firm,» said Lockerby.

I actually, I never even thought about going to other attorneys, just because, I mean, other than with the exception of this podcast, I don't feel like there's that much out there for attorneys to turn to that want to practice law as... I mean, please don't throw all the sticks at me right now, but practice law as a business.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

As explained by the New York City Bar, creating a business plan forces you to carefully consider important elements of running a law practice that you may not otherwise think about ahead of time.

One of the things I think about is when you... Lots of people want to know if they go right out of law school are they going to be able to start their own firm, and it's really hard to learn how to run a business and practice law at the same time.

But many lawyers have a hard time thinking about their practices as a business.

I wouldn't limit it to small firm lawyers at all but it's rampant in small firm lawyers that will regularly talk to people who say, «Oh yeah I know I should be doing that but,» and I guess that's the challenge and is one of the things that I think is kind of scary about the small firm industry is how frequent the, «I know I should but,» becomes a hindrance to success in small firm practice and therefore there ends up being a lot of small firm failure when there could be success if people would develop some skills, habits, commitment to learning to focus on their business as a business while still being great lawyers to their clients.

That makes a ton of sense and it's something that I think lawyers who are sort of woke to the current and future direction of business and law practice are thinking about that.

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton has been helping lawyers think differently about the business of practicing law for decades.

Even if an associate practices at a firm where the partnership track is long, he or she must start thinking about business development and marketing soon after starting at the firm.

Aaron Street: All that said about whether you should up - charge or not and how Aaron feels about it, the freelance lawyer movement, if you want to call it a movement, this new business model, is really cool innovation in the practice and one that I think provides lots of opportunities for solo and small firms to do more than they would otherwise be able to do, and I think that's great.

I think with social, with technology, with some of the things we'll be talking about today, we're going to be able to take that to the next level and that's why I'm excited to be on your show today to talk about some of the things that are out there that I think is going to be changing not only the practice of law and business, but society generally around the world

The one thing that I will say is that I think I did actually somewhat cleverly and really was helpful — I did have a business plan and I do have a business plan that I'm using that sort of talks about where to focus my practice.

Law firms thinking about their business and operating models need to consider which practices and matters rise to the level of «bet the farm.»

Many people think about shady lenders, who are charging really high rates, and do business in the alleys — with predatory practices.

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The most obvious answer is that legal department strategic partnership is about lawyers learning to align their thinking and their practices with the executive perspective and business practices of the internal corporate clients they serve.

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton has been helping lawyers think differently about the business of practicing law for more than 30 years.

I have the perfect job of being a lawyer with a plus, which is being a businessman and the majority of my work is not the practice of law but helping my management team make business decisions with the addition of a legal background that helps them make decisions about things they might not always think about.

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton has been helping lawyers and law firms think differently about the business of practicing law since 1984.

While there are likely some people who are inherently distrustful of insurance companies, and who might be skeptical of the notion that business considerations should be enough to deter a carrier from unilaterally altering the economics of the policy to the detriment of the policyholder, many of these same people don't think twice about relying on a corporation to continue fully discretionary dividend practices.

Don't think about whether you got your elevator speech word for word as you practiced, when it's a good time to ask for their business card or if they would like yours, what's a good time gap before you reach out to them on LinkedIn afterwards, or anything else of that sort.

With so many (too many) entering into the practice of becoming consumers» advisors in the real estate business, without the requisite practice; without the requisite background; without the requisite self - confidence; without the requisite detachment from the commission income mentality, it is no wonder that people such as: the dishwashers; servers; factory workers; truck / cab drivers; teachers; office workers; in general, the young and middle - aged unemployed who can't get a job anywhere else (high school drop - outs) etc. types of the world (none of whom are to be denigrated for their particular positions in the job market... except when they think that they are qualified to become Realtors after attending a few weeks of classes and memorizing answers to questions about which they have absolutely no hands - on experience with which to tie their memorized answers to), will willingly buy into paying someone else to professionally «augment» their individual «realities» on the internet.