Holding it all together across diverse industries and countries, however, will take a firm hand.
Sometimes a firm hand is needed for diplomacy to work in the defence of democracy and liberties.
The government has a firm hand on the key property market since it controls the land supply, selling sites to developers.
While that may seem straightforward, unless senior leadership exerts a firm hand holding itself and others accountable, too often teams and individuals will go their own way, doing what they think is best rather than what the company thinks is best.
Burns though made a dubious start, being knocked to the canvas in the first round by a firm right hand from Martinez, the Puerto Rican's first real punch in anger.
Or you may not be able to delegate because you have new people on your team who need a firm and active hand.
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Blues midfielder Gardner ran unmarked on to the end of a whipped-in Stephen Carr cross and directed a firm downward header which Reina somehow got a hand to.
So, too, have workers at United Airlines: a bankruptcy judge recently ruled that the firm could hand its pension plan over to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a government-linked pension insurer that pays only partial benefits to high-earners.
Investigators are still trying to work out who else at Mr Madoff's firm might have had a hand in the affair.
Last month In 2008, a U.K. court ruled that Mark Ions, a former recruitment firm employee, had to hand over all of his LinkedIn contacts to his former employer.
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Birmingham's He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, which shamefully I have not read yet, is obviously a firm favourite.
Ma-Kalambay bounded off his line but failed to make contact with the ball as Smith arrived on cue to plant a firm header into the net from 12 yards and hand Orient a shock lead.
The benefits of breaking the stranglehold of a union that has turned wages into something approaching a fixed cost are innumerable for a firm that is now fighting the competition with one hand tied behind its back.
The motors are a key component in the firm's cordless technology and Airblade hand dryer.
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On the other hand, CNOOC, a state backed oil and gas firm, has signed deals with Chesapeake Energy to develop shale projects at the Eagle Ford shale.
On the other hand, every piece of advice issuing from a Wall Street firm comes couched in caveats.
True, pension funds still hand a big portion of their money to the investment advisory firm in their keiretsu.
This is by no means inevitable, as he discovered first hand after the Covey Leadership Centre merged with Franklin, a firm that had pioneered time-management products.
In March 2010, gunmen disguised as police or security guards held the family of a partner at the Indian diamond firm Karp Impex hostage and forced him to hand over diamonds from his office vault.
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Potentially even more significant is the year-old Symbian alliance a joint-venture between Psion, an innovative British hand-held computer firm, and the three biggest mobile-telephone makers, Nokia and Ericsson of Europe and Motorola.
On the one hand, the brash Wasserstein enlivened the firm, bringing with him a number of heavy-hitting bankers with whom he had been associated over the years.
Investors are not worried about the pedestrian parts of Motorola's business, which include emergency-services radios and hand-held scanners, and which will be hived off into a firm called Motorola Solutions.
Agard headed straight at Stack as the visitors pressed for an equaliser, while Bryson stung the keeper's hand with a fierce drive, but Colin Calderwood's side held firm to claim the points.
Almost as painful, once bosses put their firm into insolvency they must usually hand over the reins of power to a court-appointed bankruptcy expert whereas in America managers who bust the firm often stay on.
But growth in these new markets has gone hand-in-hand with a shift towards lower-margin entry-point products, the firm conceded.
Mr Chou has hired Horace Luke, until 2006 a rising star at Microsoft and the creative director of Windows Mobile, the hand-held version of the firm's flagship operating system.
Yet if the court, which has the legal upper hand, stands firm and Congress reverses itself in favor of Mr. Zelaya, there will be a constitutional crisis.
"I don't ever have anybody come in and hand me a paper resume, " said Gretchen Gunn, a principal at MGD Services, a staffing firm in Stockton, New Jersey.
For everyone else, plunging stock and property prices mean now may be as good a time as any to hand back the passport, says Kurt Rademacher, a partner at Withers, a global tax-planning firm.
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