The reasons vary, but empire-building by power-hungry bosses is implicated in many failed deals.
For all its empire-building it has shown no great aptitude for running conventional businesses.
Compared with his Central Asian empire-building predecessor, Genghis Khan, Temur emerges as not without virtues.
The payout raised concerns that McCaw would have to scale back empire-building ambitions.
But the better the commercial sector gets, the more this looks like empire-building rather than public service.
This agency is there to help the transfer process, but its bureaucracy and empire-building get in the way.
All that should have been the recipe for a project mired in delays, infighting, empire-building, graft and bad results.
Havens with him, could signal the true end of empire-building in commercial banking.
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Empire-building CEOs from the 1970s through the 1990s craved not only cheap real estate but total control of their environments.
However this was Empire-building time and the land rights that they were primarily interested in were those of modern European settlers.
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Throughout the intelligence community, he's regarded as an empire-building, credit-grabbing apparatchik who'll stop at nothing to get to the top of the greasy pole.
Sadly for the telecoms firms, bottom-fishing for distressed assets rarely worked, and investors vetoed empire-building deals involving mature assets that yielded few cost synergies.
Such companies diversify their business (a policy normally associated with managerial empire-building), increase the pay of executives and weaken the link between pay and performance.
But empire-building in Eastern Europe is not necessarily cheap or easy.
Whatever the case, only some of the company's empire-building made sense.
Russian history was of little help, since most of it involved empire-building abroad and totalitarianism at home, on both of which Russia was supposed to have turned its back.
It may push America into realising that the system has become an absurdity, the result of inertia, drift and bureaucratic empire-building rather than a cool assessment of the government's current needs.
And international financial activity will remain sluggish for some time because multinationals are not, in general, indulging in the global empire-building that gave the City so much work in the good times.
Strong enough to curb Mr Brown's relentless empire-building?
Together they have pushed media companies into empire-building.
Doriot, as kind and smart and nurturing as he was, was perhaps too old fashioned or advanced in his career, which began in France in the early 20th century, to take venture capital to the next ambitious and empire-building step.
Another job will be to axe dozens of the commission's more peripheral projects and agencies legacies, mainly, of the empire-building days of Mr Delors, when the commission took on new responsibilities for which it did not have the necessary complement of trained permanent staff.
The adjustable lights can be programmed for red and green at Christmas or orange at Halloween, Empire State Building-style.
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Ford has also become a more open and collaborative place during his tenure, a change from its previous internal culture of "empire building and back-biting, " Executive Chairman Bill Ford said earlier this month.
The summer months see Times Square overrun by visitors all scrambling for their "I Heart NYC" t-shirt and matching sun visor, while the Empire State Building's elevator queue can, through the heat-haze, seem to extend as far, horizontally, as the iconic building stretches for the skies.
" To quote Mr. Malkin, "branding elevates the Empire State Building to a world-wide standard of excellence.
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His objective was to turn the Empire State Building into a state-of-the-art property with a restored image that would give it a unique competitive marketing edge.
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After 70 years of world-class culture-building and an empire of nearly 350, 000 employees, HP has lately made a habit of going outside the organization to find its CEOs.
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