They may wake up when their wives walk out the door or hand them divorce papers.
Many stores now fear that customers not formally rewarded for their patronage will walk out the door.
There are big risks: Unlike real estate, technology can walk out the door in a software engineer's head.
Instead, the experts say to count to 10 and consider five critical questions before you walk out the door.
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Or how to deal with the person ready to walk out the door because the CEO just made an unpleasant announcement?
"I am going to be secretary of state until the very last minute when I walk out the door, " she told the Associated Press on Thursday.
They'd have some bread, milk with a little coffee, walk out the door and turn down the sidewalk toward Galileo High...then they'd wander off to the park.
Or access your music including your albums, songs and playlists, wherever and whenever on Xbox Music.4 Create a playlist from your PC, walk out the door and cue up that same list from your phone.
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In advertising, for instance, most of the value can walk out of the door.
Once good people are on board, and a company has invested in training them, the last thing it wants is to see a prime asset walk out of the door.
As one art adviser told me recently, 90% of art devalues the minute you walk out of the gallery door with it.
IPOs walk straight out of the door to a private bank was simply too much for the investment bankers to bear.
But you know, one fantasy I have -- and the Secret Service, they keep looking at me because they think I might actually do it -- is to walk right out the front door and just keep walking. (Laughter.) Just go right over there and go into some shops, and stop and have some ice cream and -- yeah, go shopping.
These have come to assume a growing proportion of many companies' value, particularly in the high-tech sector where the most valuable assets walk in and out of the front door every day.
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Some people walk out of their front door into the corridor and the first thing they see is a mass of graffiti and that's awful.
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Those were "the olden days, the glory years, " as Connolly called them, and if fans waited long enough, the best players from the Islanders' Stanley Cup-winning teams of the early 1980s Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier, Denis Potvin, Clark Gillies would walk right out the Coliseum's front door and stop to sign autographs and pose for photos.
Residents, it's hoped, will be able to time their commute out the door with the changing walk signals on the street 50 stories below.
"Your parent has to open the door and let you walk out and find independence, experience it and become comfortable with it, " says Thompson.
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In this case, once online businesses walk out, California is bolting that door shut, destroying the key, and building a moat around it.
Checkers was a gift, as we all know, but in the case of Brownie Mr. Nixon found the dog wandering around the property of his New Jersey home one night, when he went out to take a walk, and then there it was, trotting in the front door.
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