Word: rolodex
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Someone like Epstein will hire someone and err on the side of education and intelligence rather than having a traditional baseball background,” Habib said. “There’s isn’t necessarily a high emphasis on having a rolodex full of baseball contacts...
...company's revenue. By shrewdly purchasing PWC's consulting business on the cheap at the bottom of the market--only a couple of years after HP had considered buying it for five times the price--Palmisano acquired a wealth of industry-and-process expertise, as well as a valuable Rolodex of high-level CEOs and CFOs who increasingly make big IT purchasing decisions...
...adds cheerfully--an acknowledgement that sometimes the best way to gather information is by not trying to. "And then at the end, he looked at me quizzically and said, 'How's your brother?'" The brother had been an aide to Margaret Thatcher and was still in Cheney's Rolodex...
...public selves may become overdeveloped at the expense of our private selves. By trying to fit lives into neatly divided parts, we risk becoming little more than walking five-minute prepared statements, so polished that our exteriors become impenetrable. Many people write about the phenomenon of “rolodex-building” at Harvard: the oft-expressed sentiment that we are so concerned with our futures that we lose the raw unpredictability of the present. So often required to distill ourselves into personal statements and choreographed answers, whittled down to bare statistics, we lose our better, less articulate selves...
...billion in annual revenues--into an even more pervasive presence in corporations. Her job is to persuade big customers to do one-stop shopping at IBM, to make it as dominant in high-level-strategy consulting as it is today in maintenance and outsourcing. By tapping the vast Rolodex and industry expertise of PWC, Rometty is counting on IBM to help devise a client's strategy, redesign such key business processes as human resources and finance, and in many cases run those departments and their sophisticated software, as IBM already does for United Technologies' procurement and Nextel's customer service...