More than one-third of them like to attend conferences and lectures, while almost 30% taken part in executive MBA programs or further education classes.
Start planning now for these must-attend conferences on my schedule.
For example, when I attend conferences or talk to people about improving health care in the developing world perhaps the first thing that is mentioned is introducing more and more mobile and internet technology.
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The challenge I face as a small business owner, therefore, is how can I give my staff access to knowledge and new ideas without breaking the bank by, say, sending them all over the world to attend conferences and the like?
At one conference I was jokingly asked if I attend the conferences to find a rich businessman to marry.
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Managers pay to sponsor and attend these conferences so they can meet pension clients of the consultant and curry favor with the consultant.
Her new responsibilities forced her to leave college, and she spent six months traveling the country to attend national conferences on eating disorders.
Those who attend pension conferences year-in and year-out witness the comings and goings of firms that enthusiastically discover and subsequently become disillusioned with pension marketing.
At lunch, I met a couple, married for 21 years, who attend investing conferences for fun--something even I couldn't contemplate despite building my career around investing.
These managers charge the highest fees (thus have lots of money to attend consultant conferences and contract for consultant marketing advice) and have lots of brokerage dollars to kick-back to consultants.
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Mr Fox said Mr Werritty would make no more private visits to the MoD, would not attend international conferences where he was present and they would not meet socially abroad when Mr Fox was on official business.
Jellinek says he hopes to soon clinch press credentials for McKagan to attend presidential press conferences.
If you have a family like mine where both parents want to attend the same conferences, you may resort to drawing straws to determine who gets to go or face a huge babysitting bill.
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Many Iranians interpreted last summer's detention of Ramin Jahanbegloo, a mild-mannered academic, as a warning not to attend political or cultural conferences abroad.
In the end, there is no program or policy that can substitute for a parent, for a mother or father who will attend those parent-teacher conferences, or help with homework, or turn off the TV, put away the video games, read to their child.
Meanwhile Mr Blair will attend the TUC and Labour party conferences, both taking place in Blackpool, and visit President Putin as part of the campaign of persuasion.
Attend professional trade association chapter meetings, conferences and trade shows.
Its labor intensive, demanding that consultants take calls from all board members and staff, attend monthly meetings, host events at industry conferences and more.
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At approximately the same time as the Putin meeting, several hundred attendees from Japan, S. Korea, Russia and the U.S. gathered at a separate Moscow location to attend the Megaprojects of Russia's East Conference, the first in a series of conferences organized by several Russian economic development agencies and regional governments to discuss efforts surrounding the project.
Tightening this up, showing a clear distinction between Interactive and V2V, positioning both conferences, will go a long way to helping people decide if they need to attend in 2014.
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Organisers of international scientific conferences are increasingly reluctant to hold them in America because not everyone they invite will be able to attend.
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