This may be a situation where your goal of communicating a message well has to take a back seat to saving your own job.
But for organizations that need to change and quickly pursue new strategies, leaders must thrive, and they can only do so in a more dynamic environment, where traditional reporting structures take a back seat to good ideas, and where all individuals, regardless of rank, have the opportunity to help move the company where it wants and needs to go.
Mr Veltroni was, it is true, constantly undermined by Massimo D'Alema, a PD baron and former prime minister whose refusal to take a back seat weakened the centre-left.
The saying goes that behind every man there's a good woman and Dame Helen believes that Reville was happy to take a back seat.
But when it came to chasing down the runs, Haddin (39 in an opening stand of 110 with Watson) and Michael Clarke, who made a boundary-free 36 in another big stand worth 107, could afford to take a back seat as Watson coped with tiredness and cramp to smash 12 fours and four sixes under the floodlights.
Maynard said he has a position on the war, but when it comes to voting, that issue will still take a back seat to the local issues.
White House officials tried to lower expectations of a breakthrough on the peace process during this trip, stressing that peace issues were likely to take a back seat to discussion of Iran and Syria.
While Harry's Caribbean tour saw him graduate as a representative of the British royal family, the prince's official duties are expected to take a back seat to his military career in the immediate future.
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In research reports, GAAP results often take a back seat to pro forma results.
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In the basketball teams that fly charter, bosses take a back seat to the workers--literally.
Unfortunately, physics, economics and entrepreneurship take a back seat to our legalistic, third-party payment system.
My analytical mind will have to take a back seat to the experienced mind for the time being.
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So Jaroslaw has apparently decided to take a back seat, at least until the presidential race is decided.
Despite those efforts, research will likely take a back seat to King's plan to buy its way to growth.
But on Tuesday, the Senate trial will take a back seat to the president's State of the Union speech.
Challenging is the word, for the cultural dimension continues to take a back seat in development planning and implementation.
The United States no longer wishes to take a back seat to those countries, nor appear to be doing so.
And any efforts for the USPTO to improve the timeliness of the patent process must take a back seat to budgetary pressures.
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Boston University's Dr Christopher Gill says in many cases, taking the ARVs may take a back seat to more pressing daily needs.
This provision clearly tells us that Congress thinks public health and safety should take a back seat to the expansion of GE crops.
It may not matter, as long as Google just needs to be about the engineering, while sales, number and operations, take a back seat.
Productivity and efficiency may take a back seat as companies look for those who can drive ideas forth, which are then implemented by machines.
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When communities and populations are the focus, individual rights, whether they are of health professionals or pharmaceutical companies, must often take a back seat.
That said, quarterly results may take a back seat to guidance, with Starbucks announcing that it will introduce Verismo brewers in China next year.
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Today, the concerns over its pipeline take a back seat to an exciting development for Gilead and the stock has risen about 3% in response.
But all questions and concerns take a back seat from April 7-April 10, during the Masters, which is the best golf tournament in the world.
With the Fed probably behind-the-curve (as shown by dollar weakness), Treasury issues will take a back seat for financial markets until inflation and interest rates are resolved.
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