• However, a key skill of managers is actually the ability to talk less and listen more.

    FORBES: Good Managers Listen. Great Managers Ask Questions.

  • Time to talk less about the Swinging Sixties and more about keeping eyes open today.

    ECONOMIST: Jimmy Savile

  • Some have to be taught to talk less, while others undergo a crash course in current events to help them make intelligent conversation.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Beauty and Bounty

  • The Brits also talk less about the need to support growth, perhaps because they don't want to risk sounding like French President Francois Hollande.

    BBC: G20: now the G stands for growth

  • Maybe a tacit deal is possible: if the Rajapaksas show proper reconciliation efforts and beef up democracy, outsiders may talk less about the horrors at the end of the war.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka and the UN: Unslayable ghosts | The

  • My own taste would have him talk less like a policy wonk and more like a preacher, but as the panel demonstrated in a confused and awkward way, most of us are on the same side.

    CNN: Talking Race With The President

  • Simple lesson: talk less, DO more.

    FORBES: 4 Reasons Why Your VC May Pull the Plug

  • Dresses were as glamorous as ever, but the talk was less about the competition and more about the relief efforts under way in Haiti.

    CNN: 'Avatar' wins two Golden Globes

  • But why all of this interest in people that can barely talk, much less partake in tabloid-worthy behavior?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In the cafes of Baghdad, Iraq, people wanted less talk and more action.

    CNN: Obama draws questions, praise from Muslims

  • While there is less talk about putting money into new programs, there is an emphasis on accountability and school choice.

    CNN

  • Labour's environment spokeswoman Sarah Boyack, who led the debate on 18 March 2010, said more action and less talk was needed to address the "lack of delivery on climate change" in Scotland.

    BBC: Climate Change Debate

  • In the spirit of educating yourself about Komen Maryland and taking to heart our new message of Less Talk, More Action go to www.komenmd.org and join us one way or another in our fight to end breast cancer forever.

    WHITEHOUSE: Less Talk, More Action to End Breast Cancer Forever

  • Taking these super wicked problem characteristics into account, requires a new way of framing climate policy solutions: less talk of mandates and higher energy costs and more talk on building competitive clean energy solutions that all Americans (and the rest of the world) can implement.

    FORBES: Obama Emerges As A Born-Again Climate Hawk. Now What Can He Do?

  • Now, Levi Strauss is joining the underwashed denim talk with their new Water Less jeans.

    FORBES: Levi's To Sell Water-wise Jeans

  • But having a corporate version of Facebook may make people less likely to talk loosely about work on the real thing.

    ECONOMIST: Microsoft in pursuit (1)

  • But the IMF is less keen to talk about the human cost.

    CNN: Bright Ideas

  • Men are less willing to talk about depression, and their misery expresses itself in ways that exacerbate their problems, such as drinking and drug-taking.

    ECONOMIST: Suicide

  • Grand talk aside, there are two less flattering reasons why paper firms are merging.

    ECONOMIST: Paper

  • The causal relationship between vicious talk and violent action is far less certain.

    ECONOMIST: The Tucson shootings

  • The more people talk about making healthy meals for less money, the better informed people would be, she said.

    BBC: Toast sandwich is UK's 'cheapest meal'

  • "Failing to acknowledge that sex between men will only increase the vulnerability of men - and women - to HIV infection, since men who cannot talk about their sexual orientation are less likely to seek appropriate support services, " said Dr Pierre Mpele, the UNAids country co-ordinator in Nigeria.

    BBC: NEWS | Africa | Nigeria moves to tighten gay laws

  • The state of Wisconsin, according to the head of the Board of Regents in a talk this fall, currently contributes less than 10% to the budget of this school, a world-class institution, built by the taxpayers of Wisconsin over 150 years (and by generous alumni contributors lately), and purportedly for the citizens of this state first, and then of the world.

    FORBES: Recall In Wisconsin?

  • If you listen to the pronouncements of public officials, people involved in education - university presidents, university executives - people in the not-for-profit sector, when they talk about higher education there is less and less reference - fewer and fewer references made to the public good that comes from higher education or comes from a populace a larger and larger proportion of whom have access to higher education.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Higher education 'market' warning

  • Mostly, they talk about changing some habit: eat less, work out more, stop smoking, become more organized.

    FORBES: One Thing You Can Do Right Now To Improve Your Life

  • Veteran GOP strategist Ed Rollins said he should he talk more about his economic plan, and less about social issues.

    WSJ: On the Road With Rick Santorum as He Takes Spotlight, Tests GOP

  • Do we even need to talk about showing the world these under anything less than 4000 lumens, suitable for large or small rooms with daylight conditions?

    FORBES: Talking Tech with Charlie Sheen

  • New York is a fishbowl too, he acknowledged, but he expects it to be a different, less-intense environment than the talk-radio fueled Boston scene perhaps, he said, owing to the fact that there are two teams in every sport in New York, making each individual team's struggles less a matter of life-or-death.

    WSJ: Kevin Youkilis: Here, It's Different

  • But the less he says, the more people talk.

    FORBES: Google's Friends And Family Plan

  • Two years after the Asian currency crisis abruptly slammed booming economies into reverse and threatened a global recession, there has been much talk about reforming the international financial architecture, but less action.

    CNN: FIXING THE WORLD

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