That said, once the team is assembled, encouraging them to constantly challenge business direction, talent, strategy, etc.
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The speed of growth meant the organisation was more than due a degree of business direction says Executive Director Sue Gardner.
Ultimately, he decided to take his existing business in a new direction and opened a retail store, event space and art gallery all focused on baseball.
Steven joined Microsoft in 1989 as a software development engineer and has contributed to the company in many ways from his work as a technical advisor to Bill Gates, to leading the evolution of theMicrosoft Office business, to his direction and successful leadership of Windows and Windows Live as well as Surface.
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When you are wearing your leadership hat you are setting the vision and direction of your business.
It was incredibly helpful and shed light on a direction for my business that I would never have considered otherwise.
His exit, just weeks after the launch of Windows 8, raises questions about the future direction of the business, not least because he was seen as a credible successor to Ballmer.
In one of its first data analyses in May 2011, Startup Compass discerned that tech start-ups with two or three founders were most able to strike a balance between sticking to a plan and changing the direction of the business.
But in the last decade the company's business has moved more in the direction of Hollywood keepsakes.
Kris Gopalakrishnan, the boss of Infosys, thinks the outsourcing business will evolve in a similar direction elsewhere, rapidly in poor countries and more slowly in rich ones.
He decided to change direction and focus on business software.
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In this role, HR executives need to use their knowledge to help the organization set its strategic direction and develop its business plans in ways that are consistent with a talent decision science.
Your opinions, which are often offered in an attempt to connect through collusion, do not help your team, but instead plague them with doubt and uncertainty that the business is heading in the wrong direction.
Unemployment is at a record high, retail sales are falling, and consumer and business confidence is headed in the wrong direction.
At least the current package to cut state debt and give tax breaks to business from 2001 points in the right direction.
Long focused in personal computers on supplying operating system software, while leaving the hardware side to others, a move into the hardware side of the business would be a bold shift in direction.
Apple enthusiasts may vomit at this, but from a business perspective, it seems like a reasonable direction to take.
Yet after hiring a virtual assistant, I found myself with many more hours each day to focus on the strategic direction and overall health of my business.
Council tax, which raises a quarter of local-government revenues, is unpopular, and businessmen fear that if councils could set business taxes they would head in only one direction.
"You can't proceed under business as normal when there's no clear direction out there, " he said.
In any business, an employee's input in the direction of his company rises along with his salary.
With many banks moving further into the securities business, the answer depends partly on the uncertain direction of stock and bond markets.
It would be too difficult to run a business if its success pulled us in a different direction than working for our clients.
Most people outside of the magazine business don't fully appreciate the importance of art direction.
"It's a real business, a growing business, and it's only going in one direction, " said Dede Nickerson, head of production and strategic development for the China arm of Sony Corp.
We believe that the acquisition is a step in the right direction towards improving the competitiveness of the card business, and it will definitely add value by helping Capital One identify customer requirements better, thereby allowing it to set aside lower provisions over the years to come.
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Even the town's biggest business, Hollywood, seems to be going in the same direction.
When Groupon realized its business plan was failing it decided to embark on a new direction.
Creating your business plan at the beginning will help guide your vision and direction as you continue along you entrepreneurial journey.
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"You will not have decisions coming out of this meeting but you will have enlightened minds and hopefully everyone coming back to his political task, his business responsibilities, will go more or less in the same direction, " Schwab told CNN.
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