Word: platforms
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...restrictions down the road? Are drug and media companies headed down a slippery slope with Congress? "Give them an inch, they'll take a mile - there's concern about that," Bolling says. "There's no question the Congressmen will take it as far as they can. This is a platform for them. This is, 'I am here to save the American public from these big, bad pharmaceutical companies.' " (Waxman says he does not support a full...
...Since the Broad’s Genome Sequencing Platform originated largely from the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, the group consists primarily of MIT employees,” said Nicole M. Davis, the institute’s scientific communications specialist...
...This will be a welfare administration," Sigurardóttir announced at a press conference on Wednesday during a meeting between the parties of the new coalition government to decide their new platform. Sigurardóttir also announced that the government's first task is to replace the central bank's directors...
...were only concerned with the success of their own region. There was some infighting, but mostly people just left one another alone. Michaels believed that the high-performance, horizontal model represented the best bet for the future. To drive his vision though his organization, he first created a "burning platform" for the change, which centered on business issues; he then shrewdly hooked his vision into Mars' core values. (See the top 10 food trends...
...responsibility and power, so his new team knew he was coming from a place of respect for company values--and a solid track record of results. Past experience had taught Michaels that functional thinking and hidden agendas are classic behaviors exhibited by nonhigh-performing teams. More than a "burning platform" was needed to counter-act old habits and the natural tendency toward standpattism. Michaels' solution was to take his team through an "alignment"--an essential step in the transformation process to great business teams...