No-one, it seems, is responsible for putting out fires except the people whose houses are threatened.
Any given day involves a dizzying combination of sales presentations, hiring (and, sadly, firing), strategy discussions, and putting out fires.
Currently, we have a proactive Fed and U.S. Treasury putting out fires.
All of this advance planning will allow you to spend less time putting out fires and more time meeting the business goals you've outlined.
Although firefighters spend only 1 to 5 percent of their time putting out fires, 32 percent of firefighter deaths from heart attacks occur at fire scenes, the study found.
When people understand where the organization is headed and are aligned with what it takes to get there, you spend a lot less time putting out fires and redirecting people to the appropriate tasks and activities.
The president spent much of his first term just putting out the fires.
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She said she has received word that firefighters are camping out on her driveway and her neighbor's, putting out spot fires.
If the book is to be believed, Bandar's role in clinching arms deals, putting out Arab fires and pursuing peace was even more central, and more Machiavellian, than the world had realised.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in the mid-1980s brought in a company from Texas that specialized in putting out oil fires and began the long process of cleaning up the site and capping it.
Even so, keeping the PCs may be the catalyst that long-disappointed investors have been looking for to justify getting back into the beaten-down stock with Whitman displaying admirable courage and intelligent sense in putting out the fires fueled by the PC controversy.
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Ivanka accomplishes all of this by working both sides of the aisle, managing to remain loyal to her father while putting out public relations fires.
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In the 1990s, environmentalists and federal forest officials reported forests had become overgrown as a result of firefighters putting out too many natural fires too quickly.
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There are lots of lawyers and compliance employees at major firms such as Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and UBS, who spend much of their day putting out small customer complaint brush fires to avoid larger conflagrations.
Firefighters reported more gains Monday, saying they had stopped the fires' growth and were working on putting out hot spots within its charred 17, 920-acre footprint.
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