But read over these seemingly disconnected directories enough, and they become carefully composed relationship-builders.
That laser focus (and she argues her gender and relationship-building skills) has served Farrington well.
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And relationship-building, in turn, is all about the body language of trust, inclusion and empathy.
During her four-day visit to India, Clinton devoted most of her time to relationship-building events.
To recreate this intimacy, relationship-management software pulls together information from different departments of a firm.
You should not try to take shortcuts in relationship-building, but you can make yourself more efficient.
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That leaves many young women frozen or frantically job-, city- and relationship-hopping in search of perfection.
Each set of questions also includes a relationship-building exercise ("Tell your partner what you like about them").
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"With any new brand, it's important to build a relationship--to put a face with the brand, " says Soave.
The relationship-counseling cliche is that you keep meeting the wrong people because the wrong person here is you.
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If business really starts popping, consider one of the many customer-relationship-management (CRM) programs to keep it all under control.
Without lowering our minimum hiring standards, we needed to identify those applicants with a high level of relationship-building skills.
You went to a very impersonal kind of market where there was no real customer relationship--everything was a deal.
So how do you build a relationship-first approach with mobile marketing and SMS?
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Who a company is, what it stands for, must register as absolutely genuine, especially in a relationship-driven business such as yours.
How, then, can we practically differentiate between the life-giving, relationship-infusing, beneficial uses of money and the relationship-destroying, life-draining worship of money?
Some teaching unions say they feel home educated children do not develop certain skills such as co-operation, conflict management or relationship-building.
There is no cause and effect relationship-only an association at this time.
So far, most have found it hard to use it effectively: one recent survey found that about two-thirds of customer-relationship-management projects fail.
It is admittedly an odd relationship - between critics and theatre folk.
We should be measuring the quantitative, transactional part of our business, but we should also recognize the unmeasurable value of the qualitative, relationship-based element.
It's cost me everything I own - and my 10-year relationship - and there have been plenty of trials and tribulations along the way.
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Some couples undoubtedly view an infidelity as the end of their relationship -- and in some cases, going your separate ways may be the best decision.
And we are ready to begin building that relationship -- in a way that protects our interests in the region and requires many fewer American troops.
The relationship -- like his mother's marriage -- sparked initial controversy when it emerged that Maxima's father had been a minister during the 1976-1983 Argentinean military dictatorship.
Prior to 2008, when an ICB closed or was acquired by a larger bank, the marketplace would produce a new ICB to fill the newly vacated relationship-banking niche.
And since taking office, my administration has taken a hard look at that relationship -- from matters of infrastructure to transportation, education to energy, housing to sustainable development.
For von Tobel, her experience since taking her first outside dollar in 2009 has been positive, something she credits to her relationship-minded approach to finding the right investors.
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The key one in my mind is networking and relationship-building.
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