Sentences with phrase «who runs things»

Who runs these things?

I speculate that really our medical industry does no want people to understand how the social and economic system affects peoples bahavior, lives and health, as well as the amount the government has to spend on them because the people who runs things resist any kind of democratiation process.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

«It's mostly men who are surprised, the men who run these things.

But it takes a lot of smoke in mirrors to make it look like the people with the most privilege in a region (like Christians in the Bible Belt) are being mistreated by the people who run things.

He knows he has a hard act to follow, replacing the kindly professorial man who ran things at the biggest church in town for 20 years, dealing with devastation in the hearts of so many.

The lemons who run things in the Assembly shudder at his mention.

It works - not least because there are plenty of those who ran things until recently who are indeed actively out to stop Corbyn's faction from running things now.

I think there was a time when it probably did reflect the social balance which was very much that way, that people who ran things, who tend to be on the Today programme, were men.

«Frankly, the people who run things are senior scientists, so even though I am a scientist I'll be at a disadvantage in the policy world.»

Look at the mess the music business is in today because of the slow, backward thinking attitudes of those who ran things back then.

But as some of the early attempts to bring it under control failed, such as the plan to have an anti-encryption «back door» built into the relevant hardware (the Clipper chip), naturally there was optimism that freedom of expression and participation would prevail over «the people who run things».

Not exact matches

The only good news about the big guys is that there is another group of them (think AOL and Yahoo for starters) who are so lost, so behind the curve, and so desperate to deliver something for their shareholders that they are constantly running around and throwing money at the shiniest new things in a panic.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

One board member, who had run a large marketing agency, took things into her own hands and spent a year going around campus in stealth mode, talking to deans and other board members to see what they thought about the institution's brand.

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.

«They said «If you're so smart why don't you help run this thing,»» says Haile, who, naturally, said yes.

I coach countless entrepreneurs who used to run through their days answering every email, text message and social - media request immediately and treating all things with the same sense of urgency.

As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

Hartz, who was featured on Fortune's 40 Under 40 list in 2015, knows a thing or two about running a high - growth tech company.

Managers complain about employees who don't get to work on time, can't do simple math, can't run a register — or even worse, misfits who lick taco shells, bathe in the utility sink or do unspeakable things to the nachos.

Whitman doesn't hide her disdain for the way Hurd — who kept all but his inner circle at arm's length — ran things.

Anyone who wanted to run as a Republican was fine, as long as they said enough of the right things.

«All these moves are things Whole Foods needs to do,» says Phil Lempert, a grocery analyst who runs SupermarketGuru.

«The [trend] we found is that students who go it alone run into [problems] more than students who approach [things] as a team,» says Jay Kayne, chair and professor of entrepreneurship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

And for small business owners who do things like run restaurants or manage hardware stores, earning an MBA might seem totally irrelevant.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

In order to keep things running smoothly every company needs a group of individuals who keep its financial performance ticking along.

Things were so nascent that as Wired reported in 2010, the ad agency buying the ads ran into an obvious but unexpected problem: «It had to create websites for its clients, who weren't even sure that interacting online was a good idea - or that the ads were even legal.»

«The thing I'll always remember is a police officer who ran toward me and said, «This way,» pointed to where to run, and then ran towards the gunfire,» Hopkins said.

«Studies of CEOs have shown that those who are first - borns tend to run their companies conservatively — improving things by, say, streamlining product lines, simplifying distribution routes and generally making sure the trains run on time,» Kluger wrote in an article for TIME.

«I think since, really, I'm a conservative investor, that experience of being in debt and also the experience of seeing things happen to people who took too much financial risk and got hurt, led me to be pretty conservative — I'm a guy that looks for singles and not home runs,» Bach said.

Look, if you want to be just like the opportunistic parasites who write that sort of self - help style nonsense but have never actually run a real company, produced a genuine product, developed an expertise, or done a single thing to help anyone but themselves in their entire lives, be my guest.

«Pop thought organic was the same thing as health food, which in those days didn't necessarily taste very good,» said Nell, a biologist and environmentalist who now runs her own charitable foundation.

Of course, the Oracle doesn't worry himself with the day - to - day management of companies he owns; his biggest act of participation in four decades was in 2006 when he installed longtime Berkshire insurance man Brad Kinstler to run things after Chuck Huggins, who had been with the company 54 years and was CEO for 33 of them, retired.

Robinson says ICOs are like early bitcoin startups back in 2011 — many of the companies were either risky, unsustainable ideas, scams, or run by pioneers who move fast and break things.

The likelihood that things won't go your way and that you will encounter multiple points of failure is high, so it's only people with an extraordinary sense of ambition who will run through those walls and figure it out.

While Biles easily captured the gold in vault, things also didn't go as well for the men's all - around champion, Kohei Uchimura, who stepped out of bounds on his first tumbling run.

In the lead - up to his dinner at the White House planned for Thursday night, Chinese premier Xi Jinping met with the people who really run things: Leaders of the world's biggest tech companies.

It's the kind of thing you might come up with if you were a wealthy landlord and reality television personality who ran for president on a whim without learning anything about issues or public policy.

But the dichotomy between who he selected to run his economic team and what he personally would like them to be doing — I think those are two very different things.»

«Harper also leads in the categories of someone you can trust, who will get things done, who has what it takes to lead Canada, who's running for the right reasons, who has a vision you can support and who can manage in tough economic times.

I recently got a phone call from an entrepreneur whom I respect and who runs a company that I hope will do great things one day.

In «real» ownership, they argue, the owners control their assets by determining such things as who runs the company, who sits on the Board of Directors, when major corporate decisions are made that might impact the future of the company, and so on.

The United States is turning into a nation of 1099 workers who eke out a living driving cars, renting rooms and running errands for people who apparently have better things to do with their time.

Of course, even for someone who plays things as close as Stephen Harper, it takes more than a team of four to run a government.

«The big success stories — Facebook, Zynga and Twitter — are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing,» said Eric Lefkofsky, a founder of Groupon who also runs Lightbank, a Chicago - based venture fund with a $ 100 million coffer.

One of the great things about working in my world is that I get to run around with some very smart, very successful people, who also happen to be very good investors.

As for Christians, there were a number who did advocate things like wanting atheists prosecuted or saying he (one poster) would run them over with his car.