Ideally, you want to find a VC partner that has relevant operational experience.
But firms often want people with financial or operational experience for the top jobs, and these fields are still male-dominated.
It took nearly a decade of development effort and operational experience to bring the F-117 to such a level of performance.
The mining companies have an immense depth of mining and operational experience which no governmental bureaucrat can replicate, either in year one, or eternity.
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Of course, Vinny and his team brought tremendous operational experience.
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"Bob has a proven track record of success and an unwavering focus on performance, and brings deep operational experience and a broad industry background to Chrysler, " said Mr LaSorda.
Gen Richards has extensive operational experience in East Timor, Sierra Leone, and first-hand knowledge of the challenges in Afghanistan, gained as commander of Nato coalition forces there between 2006 and 2007.
Frequently, to fill posts abroad and to maintain a mandated level of staffing, individuals are being sent abroad to frontline posts who have no significant operational experience and may not even be fully trained to function as ops officers.
Prior to joining EMD, Wendy spent a decade acquiring hands-on global and national disaster preparedness and response private sector operational experience managing physical security, national crisis management and business continuity projects and teams at Microsoft and the former Washington Mutual Bank.
But luckily, Sierk, the interim CEO, seems the man for the job. (Click here to see if you have the right stuff to be Iomega's permanent boss.) With years of operational experience at Xerox and AlliedSignal under his belt, he is moving quickly to plug the leaks.
But it is at the United Nations with its universality, experience and operational presence in nearly every country where global governance can best come together.
"Shell will apply its advanced technology, operational expertise and global experience in the project to jointly develop the shale gas resources with CNPC, " the Anglo-Dutch firm said in a release on its website on 20 March, without giving any further details.
Successful branding comes from experience , which means operational change is how brands get changed.
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The staff also gain a multitude of experience that is pertinent to their operational role, that again, we wouldn't have been able to give them in a military hospital, because we didn't receive the (unintelligible) of casualties.
This works well if business is good, but in my experience, companies will be pressured by the banks to find substitute lenders if the company encounters operational or financial problems in the interim.
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