HARD-DRIVING, HANDS-ON Known for his hard-driving, hands-on approach and single-minded ambition, Wu is not the first high-profile executive reported to be targeted or questioned by Chinese authorities.
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Election Day was a dark deluge of hard, driving rain.
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"We had an experienced, aggressive and hard-driving team," he wrote.
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She says that those with hard-driving, analytical careers struggle most.
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Because here is someone who is hard-driving, great success ... Huge success.
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These traits would include selfishness, self-promotion, generally, a hard-driving profile.
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But she was also a hard-driving manager; she had to be.
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That can complicate their relationship with hard-driving ministers like Ms. Patel.
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Long hours aren't just the fault of competitive industries and hard-driving bosses.
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O'Rourke, unfazed, carries on with his upbeat, heavily scheduled, literally hard-driving run.
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Mr. Giscard d'Estaing was an aristocratic intellectual, Mr. Chirac a hard-driving politician.
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Stanley's bands developed a reputation for hard-driving fast songs and mournful slow ones.
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Mr. Blankenship was a hard-driving executive who demanded productivity reports every 30 minutes.
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Chances are that the person who comes to mind isn't hard-driving or cutthroat.
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Thompson and Kaling crafted Newbury as a composite of hard-driving people they knew.
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He was praised as a hard-driving coach willing to go against the grain.
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That's OK because they're successful hard driving business executives who play all the angles?
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It's only a couple of hours' hard driving down some ferocious autobahn from Stuttgart.
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The ministry also fired Laura Codruta Kovesi (see film below), the agency's hard-driving director.
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I thought we worked our tails off, I thought we were hard forechecking, hard driving.
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It's Wolf Parade's first full-length since the hard-driving Expo 86 back in 2010.
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But that hard-driving approach has also lent itself to a "fighter mentality, " Calacanis said.
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Kalanick's hard-driving vision turned Uber into one of the world's most valuable private companies.
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Hearing that, somebody might wonder if that tough, hard-driving style makes for a good boss.
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It would be good to hear more expressiveness, more vulnerability, from the perpetually hard-driving Philharmonic.
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" Grove, "A precise, hard-driving guy," according to Gates, "...championed the idea of management by objective.
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Coughlin is a famously hard-driving, intense coach, and watching McGillis die was a life-changing experience.
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Emir is a friendly, hard-driving guide with an almost compulsive passion for helping people catch fish.
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"My dad was hard-driving and demanding both as a spouse and as a parent," he said.
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"We're two people who have struggled our entire adult lives with being hard driving, ambitious," Mr. Freeman said.
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In fact, hard-driving executives live longer when they take vacations than when they don't, despite healthy lifestyles.
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Mr. Quinn, a hard-driving lawyer whose yearly firm-wide hikes have been called death marches, was moved.
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You want to be observed by other people as a stickler for the rules, a hard-driving manager.
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The transmission is also well suited to hard driving in manual mode, flicking of quick shifts on demand.
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These songs cover the spectrum from hard-driving rockers to soulful thought-provoking time capsules of a life's work.
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America's most senior officer, General Dunford is a marine, dubbed "fighting Joe" as a hard-driving commander in Iraq.
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Piech was hailed as a brilliant engineer and hard-driving manager who set a "cannot fail" environment at Volkswagen.
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"Check yourself when you get into that hard-driving task mode that we all know so well," McKee writes.
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Every Jag I've sampled lately invites you to drive and drive hard, without pushing the hard driving on you.
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Directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, Bushwick is one part social commentary, three parts hard-driving urban-warfare film.
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He traded his hard driving gangsta-style lyrics for Islamic devotional songs called Nasheeds, including one that praised bin Laden.
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Montoya, a hard-driving Colombian, seemed poised to make amends for his heartbreaking title loss when the new season began.
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Huawei's hard-driving culture calls for all employees to work every last Saturday of the month, albeit for double pay.
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Birx believes in the data above all and will point to PEPFAR's performance as justification for her hard-driving approach.
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In "Permanent Record," Pablo is the offspring of a hard-driving Korean physician mom and an artsy, boho Pakistani dad.
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Wu, known for his hard-driving, hands-on approach and single-minded ambition, has been detained since June, sources have said.
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It's going to be tricky, and demand a level of corporate savvy that doesn't seem natural to the hard-driving Fadell.
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Aviation experts worry that pilots at hard-driving carriers like Lion Air may not be given adequate time for such training.
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It will be put on display outside an auditorium named for one of the company's hard-driving founders, Henry R. Luce.
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Like the Hollywood studio bosses, Sarnoff, born in Eastern Europe and with little formal education, became a hard-driving entrepreneur in America.
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Jim Carrey starred in a 2011 film adaptation of the novel, which turned Mr. Popper into a hard-driving divorced Manhattan businessman.
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Too many hard-driving business warriors fail to proactively protect their real treasures until a crisis, when it may be too late.
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A Brantley Gilbert show is a rowdy affair — hard-driving guitars, pyrotechnics, a throng of dedicated fans, his BG Nation, ready to party.
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We had a real hard-driving kind of boss, who always made sure we were on the clock and never taking any breaks.
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The Ubangis, a group of Congolese women with artificially extended lips, were hard-driving negotiators who constantly tortured an effigy of their manager.
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And like Malick, Rick has two brothers, one of whom committed suicide, and is constantly pressed by a hard-driving father (Brian Dennehy).
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Many a Cabinet Secretary or agency administrator lived in dread of receiving a "Dingell-gram" ordering an appearance before the hard-driving chairman.
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Something is happening and it is not a straight discounting of having a hard-driving deal maker as U.S. procurement officer-in-chief.
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Some in the crowd were concerned for the health of the band's hard-driving drummer, Sal Cappi, whose exertion was a bit alarming.
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From inside the Savoy, a swing band's hard-driving sound beat its way to the sidewalk, and there she and Mr. Ganaway danced.
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"He's a hard driving no-nonsense guy who believes strongly in the basic principles of the immigration policy of Jeff Sessions," Stein said.
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In the hard-driving "Danse Générale" that concludes Ravel's suite, there were more sledgehammer moments in which volume swallowed up color and complexity.
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Remember, Microsoft was a company founded and run by a brilliant but notoriously hard-driving software programmer, Bill Gates, who built a workaholic culture.
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At times, especially during his hard-driving reading of the finale, Mr. van Zweden pushed the symphony to unpleasant extremes of tempo and sound.
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Not that Ramsey really got to leave work: Oracle's hard-driving founder and CEO kept tracking them down in the middle of the ocean.
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Selmayr, a 47-year-old German lawyer known as a hard-driving devotee of European integration, is both feared and admired by senior EU officials.
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IT'S THE MONEY THAT COUNTS Huawei's hard-driving culture calls for all employees to work every last Saturday of the month, albeit for double pay.
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It was the most emotional moment in a show that revealed Mr. Morrison as a versatile, hard-driving musical frontiersman leveling the territory separating genres.
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And the only boss Mr. Trump ever had in his life was his father, a hard-driving developer the president still treats with deep reverence.
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There, a hard-driving Dutch sea captain tortures them with work and tantalizes them with his manliness, at one point even displaying his tattooed penis.
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Zaffino is described as a hard-driving numbers guy who digs deep into raw data to evaluate business lines instead of relying on managers reports.
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This provides a "cover" that helps women overcome the perceived mismatch between the stereotypes of the good, community-focused woman and the hard-driving entrepreneur.
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This provides a "cover" that helps women overcome the perceived mismatch between the stereotypes of the good, community-focused woman and the hard-driving entrepreneur.
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Kotzen is part of a new generation of hard-driving "Super Grandparents" that is spending their golden years looking after everyone around them, financially and otherwise.
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Brianne is the hard-driving, higher-strung overachiever: world-class in no individual event yet committed to squeezing every bit of toothpaste out of the tube.
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Al-Falih was also seen as hard-driving, a much different personality than Prince Abdulaziz, who has worked behind the scenes at OPEC gatherings and elsewhere.
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The Scherzo, including hard-driving passages and a terrifying crescendo up to a cliff's-edge silence, spoke of the players' courage and trust in Mr. Hayes.
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At the Met, Wagstaff's hard-driving self-confidence has rubbed some people the wrong way, but she has fervent supporters both inside and outside the museum.
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Mr. Trump is winning with evangelicals, as he does with other Republican primary voters, by promising uncompromising immigration and trade policies and a hard-driving leadership style.
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Labour practices at Dentsu, renowned for its hard-driving work culture, came under scrutiny after employee Matsuri Takahashi committed suicide in 2015 at the age of 24.
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As the population ages, the labor force is shrinking at an alarming rate, and a hard-driving work culture makes it difficult to attract and retain workers.
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Its primary purpose is to sell cars instead of pleasing — at high production expense but low corporate profit — the hard-driving, small market-segment of off-roaders.
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Leslie Miley — an advocate for better diversity practices in the Valley — has said he'd be wary of hiring someone who did well in Uber's hard-driving culture.
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After 25 minutes of hard driving with a friend in the passenger seat, I pulled over, killed the radio, and just sat in silence for a minute.
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I had to learn, and I'm still learning, about the kinds of people on my team who can run in my system, which is pretty hard-driving.
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Down Route 10, a gently winding country road that flooded quickly on Wednesday in a hard driving rain, there also were deep pockets of support for Mr. Sanders.
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There is also tumult surrounding the News of the Week itself, whose hard-driving editor (Chris Diamantopoulos) faces pressure to adapt to the they-are-a-changing times.
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Both performed badly in the first of two races on Monday only to come back and win the second in front of a tough and hard-driving fleet.
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And the booth was that of Larry Gagosian, the hard-driving international dealer whose 16 galleries trade upward of an estimated $1 billion worth of art a year.
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The hard-driving score, which opens with a chord repeated loudly 144 times at quickening intervals, juxtaposes eclectic influences including Bach, Stravinsky, Renaissance music, jazz and boogie-woogie.
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Regulators said employees were given financial incentives to open up as many new accounts as they could, as part of a hard-driving bank culture to grow business.
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She is so hard driving that she often zooms straight off cliffs of propriety, then keeps going on pure momentum and somehow lands safely on the other side.
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Granted, I don't realize I'm playing on the highest difficulty until a few races in, but all the same: Blur is, was, and remains one nails-hard driving game.
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The answer is we could – if we rethought the logic behind why we're putting in these hours and worked to change the hard-driving routines we've created for ourselves.
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This might have some impact on already dominant players like Walmart, but it is likely to hit small players particularly hard, driving many smaller grocery firms out of business.
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Mr. Cordaro said he was further annoyed because Tesla, in its blog post about the Model S suspension and confidentiality agreements, suggested his breakdown had resulted from hard driving.
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Indeed, "Under the Harrow" contains similarities that will undoubtedly attract readers — but underneath its hard-driving, page-turning, compulsively readable narrative is a striking, original voice all Berry's own.
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"If he wanted to, Bump could have made life very difficult for me," the hard-driving Bo Schembechler recalled in telling of his debut as Elliott's successor at Michigan.
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In the Financial Times earlier this year Michael Moritz, chairman of the venture-capital firm Sequoia, suggested that American techies could learn from the hard-driving culture of Chinese entrepreneurs.
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Somewhere around my fifth hard-driving set at my first RowHouse class, I shed my defenses of irony, indifference, and skepticism, and I began leaning hard into my own ignorance.
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In the first movement, her pace in the lyrical sections was relaxed to the point of growing slack, but allowed for exciting hard-driving transitions back to the faster material.
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The scapegoat for the Bulls' ceaseless doctor appointments, hard-driving coach Tom Thibodeau, was out the door after a second-round playoff exit against James and the Cavaliers last spring.
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But while many cars will beat you over the head with raw speed and fall apart in hard driving, the 720S gets better and better the more you push it.
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"It is soul-numbing to play that thing," Mr. Wachner, the church's hard-driving director of music and arts, said of the digital instrument in Trinity Church, on Lower Broadway.
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Mr. Murphy began his career in Memphis before moving in the 20103s to Chicago, which was then at the epicenter of a new kind of hard-driving, heavily electrified blues.
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And if you think your spin classes and kombucha habit will make up for postponing that dream cruise and save you from your jam-packed, hard driving life, think again.
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Not only has the network's expansion been inextricably bound up in Moskowitz's rising profile, but her hard-driving style has become emblematic of the city's—and the nation's—school reform movement.
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His 10 string quartets, for example, are dramatic, sometimes incendiary scores with hard-driving and often tense fast movements as well as ruminative slow movements — with occasional quotations from folk melodies.
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The societal pathologies that thwart and maim the female characters in this hard-driving British import could easily fill the shelves of a feminist studies wall in a Barnes & Noble megastore.
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Franklin's version, featuring Clayton Ivey's hard-driving piano, was issued as the B-side to her single "The House That Jack Built," and quickly began to receive airplay from radio DJs. 21973.
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From the propulsive opening of "Dreaming of Vermont," by Joshua Lopes, one of the group's members, the stage was set for an evening of sophisticated, hard-driving and stylistically omnivorous music making.
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On his latest album, "More Powerful," his percussive and vibrant compositions are the springboard for more than a few hard-driving solos; his stalwart quartet maintains a high level of swinging interplay.
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In the following months, there was a series of stories about the hard-driving, often hard-partying atmosphere at Zenefits, where big deals were celebrated with staffers gathering to down shots of alcohol.
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Red Simpson, an architect of the twangy, hard-driving Bakersfield sound in country music who made a career out of truck-driving songs like the 20123 hit "I'm a Truck," died on Jan.
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Sharapova, who will face Williams on Monday in the fourth round, recently reunited with former coach Thomas Hogstedt, the hard-driving Swede who once helped her return to No. 1 after shoulder surgery.
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That means a change of policy by Saudi Arabia's hard-driving young crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, and a measure of responsibility from whoever is handling Middle East policy in the White House.
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Here, at an imaginary gathering of Scottish clans, she stunned viewers in the "MacDonald of Sleat" section as the leader of a turbulent, leaping, hard-driving female ensemble in kilts and toe shoes.
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The President appeared to interpret Mueller's failure to accuse him of crimes as a vindication for the unchained, hard driving approach and attitude to expansive executive power that has made his presidency so controversial.
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In consort with an expert bunch of musicians (played by Neil Young's backing band, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real), Jackson gives his devotees the gnarly, hairy, hard-driving sound for which they yearn.
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In the 1970s, Mr. Benson shot a hard-driving, show-offy young real estate heir named Donald J. Trump shadowboxing as if with his future on the roof of Mr. Trump's Fifth Avenue tower.
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By the end, all had congregated at a single drum kit at the front of the stage, whacking out hard-driving patterns in a scene that seemed to speak simultaneously of competition and cohesion.
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Bharara's team of hard-driving prosecutors also went after international narcotics traffickers, corruption in local and state government, including in Albany, and took down gang kingpins and mobsters in the Bronx, Yonkers and other areas.
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The general, a combat veteran dubbed "Fighting Joe" for his hard-driving ways during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, had just told his marines that America's great defining strength lies in its networks of alliances.
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When the board of Equifax convened last week to discuss the company's response to an enormous data breach, the 10 outside directors concluded that it was time for their hard-driving chief executive to step down.
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McDermott, a hard-driving New Yorker who is Germany's highest-paid CEO, is leading SAP through a transition away from selling software licenses that generate up-front fees to hosted cloud services paid for by subscription.
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The recent implosion of General Electric should not be blamed on Jack Welch, the hard-driving former CEO who had built the conglomerate into a global powerhouse over 20 years, said former GE director Ken Langone.
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While in the midst of that assignment—which required the kind of delicate give-and-take ill-suited to a hard-driving, no-nonsense Marine—the 23-year-old Mueller received a final call to public service.
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The group includes hard-driving leaders of business and industry who've all come to the same conclusion: "You can achieve great things if you want to, and you can do it in a joyful way," he said.
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I want bass, and plenty of it, so that my hard-driving playlists can drown out the treadmill motors and ambient grunts that ride atop a soundtrack of inoffensive bubble-gum pop played over my gym's loudspeakers.
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Consider a former patient of mine, a hard-driving guy in finance who rarely, if ever, took time off and who finally agreed to a vacation at the urging — or more accurately, the threats — of his wife.
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Ironically, the song that took them out of the clubs and into the global charts was not one of their hard driving, ivory bashing anthems or skewered caricatures of whatever sap managed to get on Folds' bad side.
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The Beach Boys There are almost as many Southern California sounds as Southern California towns, whether it's the hard-driving punk of X, the dark visions of the Doors or the tuneful hard rock of Guns N' Roses.
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Other former Wells employees have vented their frustrations in a series of cartoon videos on YouTube that spoof on the bank's hard-driving culture — and the fact that they were hardly getting rich from hitting their bosses' targets.
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Charney is a workaholic, a provocateur, and a hard-driving businessman who turned a t-shirt into a brand that was at one point estimated to be worth $1 billion, only to be dumped by the company's board.
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Fashion Review It was Friday, the first day of London Fashion Week, and Donatella Versace was sitting in a hotel in Mayfair, finishing the preparations for her hard-driving, techno-fabulous Versus Versace show scheduled the next day.
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Labour practices at Dentsu, renowned for its hard-driving work culture, came under scrutiny after employee Matsuri Takahashi committed suicide in 2015 at the age of 24 - a death that the government later ruled "karoshi" - literally "death by overwork".
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For all the things that are controversial about the legendarily hard-driving Thibodeau—the way he burns out his bosses and his charges alike, his type-A aversion to compromise in any form—there is also one bright reason for hope.
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The move sets up a showdown at SandRidge's annual meeting later this year between the existing board and the hard-driving investor who has been trying to force the company to sell itself outright to either himself or another potential bidder.
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In her reading of this fascinating sonata, Ms. Buechner emphasized the contrasts between bombastic pathos and private doubt, between a hard-driving public sound world and an inner one in which echoes of Rachmaninoff flash like fleeting pangs of regret.
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The closest match might be to an 18th-century Gothic romance: the alluring lady of the manor, the hard-driving bull of a mill owner, the conscience-stricken young priest, the final drama played out in the drenching rain and stormlight.
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The Timberwolves opted instead for a $150 million Target Center renovation and a draft-night trade with Chicago last June to reunite Butler with Tom Thibodeau, the hard-driving Minnesota coach and team president for whom Butler played in Chicago.
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Under the calm exterior, though, is a tough-minded, hard-driving visionary who founded England's Manchester International Festival and ran it for ten years, and turned the Park Avenue Armory into one of Manhattan's most exciting venues for new performance works.
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He drew elements of his technique from the hard-driving rock of The Who and Led Zeppelin, as well as the zesty swing of jazz and big-bang music, ultimately perfecting an intricately layered but rigorously precise style all his own.
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Mr. Trump, according to one longtime adviser, is perpetually playing a soundtrack in his head consisting of advice from his father, Fred, a hard-driving real estate developer who laid the weight of the family's success on his son's shoulders.
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It ends with 40 black-latex-clad and masked dancers with insectlike prosthetic arms and protuberances, performing synchronized marches to a hard-driving rock song by Teddy Geiger, while a hairy-headed creature in gold sequined trousers gyrates wildly in the middle. What?
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Kalanick, a hard-driving visionary who helped start Uber in 2009 and then build into a global phenomenon, was ousted as CEO in 2017 after a series of scandals, including allegations he allowed a toxic workplace of sexual harassment and discrimination to develop.
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As much as Mr. Bush helped himself in 1988, his 1992 convention in Houston was marked by hard-driving conservative speeches — from Patrick J. Buchanan, among others — that permitted Democrats to portray Mr. Bush as out of step with the political mainstream.
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She also began releasing her own solo music on Bandcamp under the name Kuraine, with hard-driving releases like Singularity; it was through these solo works that she eventually caught the eye of Matt Thorson, creator of the indie multiplayer hit Towerfall.
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Launched in 2002 and paired with promotion wing Droid Behavior, it has served as a temple of techno purism over the past decade, pushing the kind of hard, driving, uncompromising warehouse techno that hasn't always been the genre du jour in LA' fickle underground climes.
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But when they get down to business, many Chinese investors still opt for hard-driving, debt-laden, risky approaches; they are products of a stockmarket that is not yet three decades old and an economy that during that time has seen few serious downturns.
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Wells Fargo was sure to face criticism over the misdeeds of employees once The Los Angeles Times broke the story three years ago, detailing a hard-driving sales culture in which retail bank employees opened the accounts without customer permission to pad performance numbers.
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But the track has remained the same, and on Saturday night, after the skies had cleared and the lights had come on, Petty and race fans were treated to a vintage race at Daytona, featuring hard driving and a pileup that affected 2500 cars.
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In January, Khosrowshahi told CNBC the "moral compass" at the company was not pointing in the right direction under Kalanick, whose hard-driving vision turned Uber into one of the world's most valuable private companies but also allegedly allowed a toxic work environment to fester.
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Back at home, there followed a hard-driving Tournament of Snack Tray: Boursin cheese and Stoned Wheat Thins; Triscuits and canned sardines with Dijon mustard and cornichons; smoked salmon and cream-cheese pinwheels; cherry tomatoes halved and stuffed, baked Brie with Bonne Maman apricot preserves.
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The year before, Mr. Haggard had received his first big break when he was hired to play bass in the band of Wynn Stewart, an early exponent of the lean, hard-driving Bakersfield sound that Mr. Haggard and Mr. Owens went on to make famous.
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Many people I've spoken to mark Birx's arrival as the moment when the office of the global AIDS coordinator became more hands-on and hard-driving with PEPFAR's participating nations — removing autonomy from both the Americans working on various countries' programs and the governments of those countries.
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From the beginning, the Juilliard Quartet was known for its probing musicality (the group once devoted two full rehearsals to a single measure from Elliott Carter's Third String Quartet); hard-driving style, which for all its passionate intensity was considered refreshingly unsentimental; and deep commitment to contemporary music.
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This year, the luxury carmaker Acura is gambling that its use of Van Halen's hard-driving rock n' roll classic "Runnin' With the Devil" will make its 30-second spot for the 2017 NSX high-end sports car stand out during CBS' broadcast of Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7.
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Not the same type as you were describing of as Elon and Jobs, but the overarching insight here is that you don't have to be like them; you don't have to be male, you don't have to be white and you don't have to be hard-driving like they are.
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One woman, who was voted the "best physique" at Beverly Hills High School in the late 90s, is now a meditative, thoughtful 42-year-old; another woman, a hard-driving hedge fund executive, appears to simply transfer an obsession with work and money to her young daughter, birthed via surrogate.
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It also has the support of a powerful outside advocate: David Krone, the hard-driving former chief of staff to Harry Reid, the former Senate Democratic leader, who has used his contacts in the party to push the measure for several years in response to a wave of anti-Semitism on college campuses.
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The record caught fire locally, and Presley was on his way, electrifying audiences with a new sound defined in large part by Mr. Moore, whose slashing chords, inserted like musical punctuation, and hard-driving solos inspired future rock guitarists around the world, including Keith Richards, George Harrison, Jeff Beck, Mark Knopfler and Chris Isaak.
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During the first half of this four-hour marathon, which included works by Morton Feldman, David Lang and others, I especially enjoyed Philip Glass's hard-driving, austere "Music in Fifths" performed here by four pianists playing two pianos (with Vicky Chow joining her three colleagues) and Earle Brown's complex, pointillist "Fourmore," a solo work incisively played by Ms. Honda.
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Not Anisimova and her already sizable entourage, which includes her father and head coach, Konstantin Anisimov; her mother, Olga; her traveling coach, Max Fomine; her longtime coaching consultant, Nick Saviano; and her longtime agent, Gary Swain; as well as Max Eisenbud, the hard-driving IMG vice president who represents, among others, Maria Sharapova and Madison Keys.
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BF: One of the difficult things to do, not just as an investor, but as a board member — and it's frankly also difficult for entrepreneurs — is to deal with the spectrum that you're on, where one end of the spectrum as an investor or board member is dictating to the charismatic, incredibly hard-driving founder who is the CEO what they should do, and, at the other end, letting them be unconstrained so that they do whatever they want to do.
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" They discovered how much they had in common, especially an intense passion for their dangerous sports: Mr. Busch, a versatile, hard-driving son of Tom Busch, a retired short track driver, and older brother of Kyle Busch, 2015 winner of the Nascar Sprint Cup Series, began his championship career at age 15; Ms. Van Metre, a low-keyed, yet dedicated equestrian, who began riding at 5 and started playing polo with her family at age 20173, said she was a "fierce competitor on the field.
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