Business in sentence

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It was a tradition that you didn't chat about your business in public.

I was so moved by these results that I wanted to make these forests with the same acumen with which we make cars or write software or do any mainstream business, so I founded a company which is an end-to-end service provider to create these native natural forests.

But to make afforestation as a mainstream business or an industry, we had to standardize the process of forest-making.

It was in 2009 that my friend and now business partner James Ramsey alerted me to the location of a pretty spectacular site, which is this.

He went to the commercial business high school as a young man in Budapest, and there he was as smart as he was modest and he enjoyed a considerable success.

Mr. Teszler said, "You are being paid twice the wages of any other textile workers in this region and this is how we do business.

And one of the white foremen stepped forward and said, "You are being paid twice the wages of any other workers in this industry in this region and this is how we do business.

And on a Wednesday afternoon, I was walking down the corridor of my high school kind of minding my own business.

We have since spun him off into his own business.

They did all right in the ketchup business.

I said, "Senator, it appears that we're going into the food training business."

And I said, "You're in the computer business, is that right?"

In my business it's very difficult work.

It's a dirty and dangerous business.

And our idea is to make this a professionalized pit-emptying service so that we can create a small business out of it, create profits and jobs, and the hope is that, as we are rethinking sanitation, we are extending the life of these pits so that we don't have to resort to quick solutions that don't really make sense.

These skills and competencies can be summarized as business, strategic, and financial acumen.

So I asked, "Well, what about people who understand your business, where it's going, and their role in taking it there?

And what about people who are able to look at the financials of your business, understand the story that the financials tell, and either take appropriate action or make appropriate recommendations?"

So I turned to the audience of 150 women and I asked, "How many of you have ever been told that the door-opener for career advancement is your business, strategic and financial acumen, and that all the other important stuff is what differentiates you in the talent pool?"

When organizations direct women toward resources that focus on the conventional advice that we've been hearing for over 40 years, there's a notable absence of advice that relates to business, strategic and financial acumen.

Much of the advice is emphasizing personal actions that we need to take, like become more assertive, become more confident, develop your personal brand, things that Tonya's been working on, and advice about working with other people, things like learn to self-promote, get a mentor, enhance your network, and virtually nothing said about the importance of business, strategic and financial acumen.

So you would think that she's getting messages from her organization through the talent development systems and performance management systems that let her know how important it is to develop business, strategic and financial acumen, but here again, that green square is quite small.

On average, talent and performance management systems in the organizations that I've worked with focus three to one on the other two elements of leadership compared to the importance of business, strategic and financial acumen, which is why typical talent and performance systems haven't closed and won't close the gender gap at the top.

Now, Tonya also talked about working with a mentor, and this is really important to talk about, because if organizations, talent and performance systems aren't giving people in general information about the importance of business, strategic and financial acumen, how are men getting to the top?

And he said, "I helped the woman build confidence, I helped the man learn the business, and I didn't realize that I was treating them any differently."

In other words, the term we use in business is, we have to have strategic alignment.

And if you think about what I've just shared, that you have situations where at least 50 percent of your middle managers haven't received clear messaging that they have to become focused on the business, where it's headed, and their role in taking it there, it's not surprising that that percentage of executives who are confident about alignment is so low, which is why there are other people who have a role to play in this.

It's important for CEOs to also expect these proportional pools, and if they hear comments like, "Well, she doesn't have enough business experience," ask the question, "What are we going to do about that?"

Tonya emailed me two months ago, and she said that she had been interviewed for a new position, and during the interview, they probed about her business acumen and her strategic insights into the industry, and she said that she was so happy to report that now she has a new position reporting directly to the chief information officer at her company.

Unlike development aid money, that must go through official agencies, through governments, remittances directly reach the poor, reach the family, and often with business advice.

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