For example, connecting with a decision-maker can be easier via LinkedIn than with less-accessible direct company contacts.
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"What's real is that quality of life is a decision-maker for the big players, " says Democratic Rep. Alice Hausman.
These are legal proceedings where someone is appointed as a decision-maker over a person who is determined to be in need of protection, typically for being legally incompetent.
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Such unnatural and unthinking constraints on decision-making would appear particularly ill-positioned to deal with uncertain situations, and hardly what we would hope for in a decision-maker facing a first-time-ever dilemma.
The 38-year-old has also embarked on a tour in recent weeks to hear from managers about problems they face and has asked that employees develop new practices for meetings, such as designating a decision-maker and refraining from working on their laptops, these people said.
Remember, being a key decision-maker does not make you an emperor.
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In short, Waxman said, there was fair notice of the facts and the chance to rebut them, as well as a neutral decision-maker who was insulated from command influence.
Chao is President of the American Neuroscience Association and a key decision-maker as to which scientists are able to get research money to study the brain from the National Institute of Health.
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Or, in order to achieve reform, is it best to bring in an independent figure -- known as a good manager and decision-maker -- to change what has become an often intractable and inflexible bureaucracy?
One of the oldest tricks is having a non-decision maker do the shopping.
Braly brought a perspective to health insurance for women as decision-maker, a key insight given women are generally the person in U.S. households who make the calls on medical care treatment for their families.
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It seems they have gone to a decision maker to drop - somebody involved between the forwards and the backs.
If a time comes when you must step into the decision-maker role, you will be much better prepared if you have a trusting relationship with those who are there to help preserve assets, manage them and offer you their expertise about your decisions.
That helps explain Sir William's attitude, the scary headlines it generated and a decision by Communic8, a handset-maker, to withdraw a phone aimed at children.
Yesterday, a decision by the drug and device maker to suspend gift-giving to doctors in India, which violates the law in that country, became known following a recent report by Reuters ( see this).
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Go into every interview hoping you come home with a purchase order, a conditional purchase letter, or letter of interest from the decision-maker.
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We have forgotten that regardless of the target market, the key decision-maker, whether he or she is a financial adviser, a hospital administrator, a CEO, a mom buying a toy for her child, or the head of a large contractor for the military, is first and foremost a human.
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In today's decision, a group of shareholders accused Tellabs , a maker of fiber-optic equipment, and its former chief executive, Richard Notebaert, of knowingly misleading investors about the company's deteriorating financial position.
But if you are the decision-maker, or can influence the decision, remember to take a longer-term perspective.
In today's decision, a group of shareholders accused Tellabs (nasdaq: TLAB - news - people ), a maker of fiber-optic equipment, and its former chief executive, Richard Notebaert, of knowingly misleading investors about the company's deteriorating financial position.
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