The foreign executives visited the manufacturing plant.

We sat face to face with executives.

The executives at these companies told me,

And the studio executives, they would say,

Senior executives spend a lot of time training their subordinates.

The parking spaces nearest the door are reserved for executives.

Unfortunately, all the TV executives we spoke to didn't see that.

Some of the company's executives are out of town for a conference.

There are different programs for graduate students, for executives at different companies.

In most Japanese companies, only a few executives have a room to themselves.

The librarians in the company would do things like answer for the executives,

I've been told by executives of the pesticide industry that they have ever witnessed.

So instead of having executives issue grand proclamations, the team in effect manages itself.

So initially, when we started our research, we went and met several executives, and we asked them,

She went from not knowing anyone at Yahoo to three warm introductions to major executives in 30 days.

And this sort of thing gives utility executives the heebee jeebees and it gives venture capitalists sweet dreams.

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But all of sudden people started a flash mob in the middle of where executives and staff pass by

She will do anything in her power to make sure that my demo does not reach the executives at the Food Network!

Because then it won't be able to even transact with its customers, or pay its rent, or send its executives on their

Companies make their expensive executives spend ages carefully preparing forecasts and budgets which are obsolete or need changing before they can be published.

So I've interviewed a wide range of innovators, literally, from Apple to Unilever, executives, U.S. Army, community leaders, college teachers, asking all of them,

So last year I went to Milan, Italy, and I got to speak to an audience of cellular executives from 200 countries around the world.

But they also talk about the fact that their executives, all of their expense reports are put onto their company intranet for everyone to see.

And eventually these bigshot executives whip out their Blackberries and they say they have to make really important phone calls, and they head for the exits.

Companies followed the waterfall method, right, in which executives issued orders that slowly trickled down to programmers below, and no one had ever consulted the programmers.

In surveys of European and American executives, fully 85 percent of them acknowledged that they had issues or concerns at work that they were afraid to raise.

I know actors and film stars and millionaires and novelists and top lawyers and television executives and magazine editors and national journalists and dustbinmen and hairdressers, all who were

And in the case of the Media Lab, knowing a lot of people, knowing people who were either executives or wealthy, and also not having, in my own case, a career to worry about anymore.

After all, companies didn't stop polluting groundwater as a matter of course, or employing 10 year olds as a matter of course, just because executives woke up one day and decided it was the right thing to do.

What we now know instead of firing executives when our business model doesn't match what's going on outside in the real world we fire the model, and we simply say, Hey, our hypotheses were wrong, so because we've been building the product iteratively and incrementally and keeping our burn rate incredibly low a pivot is a substantive change to one or more of the business model components.

It turns out that the title VP of Sales has a very different job spec in a large company that it does on a startup of VP and marketing does very different things in a large company than they do on a startup and for years, we could never explain why is it that incredibly competent executives who have been executing business models in large corporations collapse in startups when they're company is smaller than their administrative staff in their large corporation.