Hints and tips:
...But BCG’s Debbie Lovich says most executives are just monitoring “‘butts in seats’ and [entry] card swipes, instead of managing towards joy and productivity”....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-JohnsonYeah, talking to Brian Chesky, he certainly sounded genuine. He seemed quite concerned about this....
...The devices are often discarded like cigarette butts outside the school gates, says Cleary, principal at Robert Smyth Academy in Leicestershire....
...Sixty-year-old Brian was one of the last miners at “the Big K”....
...“It lighted a fire under our butts to get out of the habit of ‘we just gotta go knock on doors.’”...
...Bill Rauch’s brisk staging nonetheless carries us along here as Johnson butts heads with Martin Luther King Jr....
...Teenage mutant ninja turtles were comic-book heroes who banded together to jump high, kick butt and battle evil....
...And Hart, whom the film made the butt of many jokes, is now a joker in his own right. Played by variety comedian Brian Conley, his locker room one-liners (“What do women and tiles have in common?”...
...In recent weeks two of Mr Trudeau’s chief staff, Gerald Butts and Katie Telford, have travelled to Washington to meet Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon, in a bid to smooth relations with the new Trump government...
...But it also needs to be careful not to enter the market too slowly, avoiding the example of Yahoo, warns Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research....
...“The media were on my butt,” he added. “Fortunately it was all BS.” That is to say “before social” media....
...For the “Sausage Series” the artists posed salami, wurst, pickles and humanoid cigarette butts in trashy tableaux....
...Chief operating officer Brian Rich is stepping down for “personal reasons”. Could one of these be that the chairman has personally given him the boot?...
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...By 2010, women had protested, fought, and worked their butts off to raise that compensation to 77 cents for every dollar men made....
...Brian Clough might have topped it if only there had been financial data for his glory years with Nottingham Forest in the 1970s....
...Brian Souter, chief executive, Stagecoach, the transport group. Graham Watson, Lib Dem MEP. Chris Woodhead, chairman, Cognita independent schools group and former chief inspector of schools....
...It sounded like a Ventures riff in a bottle: Brian Wilson singing, the sand blowing through my salt-fleck curls, that girl checking me out. I sprayed it on dry....
...“This country is made up of a lot of small businesses working their butts off every day and they do not need this,” said Scott Fletcher, chairman and founder of ANS Group, an IT company in Manchester....
...Daddy Pig is unshaven, bespectacled and the butt of Peppa’s scorn....
...Brand, 71, points out a purple smoke tree that was a gift from the musician Brian Eno, a friend and intellectual sparring partner. A blue heron glides over the marsh....
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