bigwig

Just because this bigwig was excited doesn't mean something will definitely come of it.

No one ever got to meet with Mr Bigwig for more than 5 minutes, and Mr.

Funny anecdote from Sun bigwig: using your Erdos number to decide who goes first in line...

When he went in, Bigwig was gruffly resistant to a sales pitch, but Theater first complimented his fine wood paneled office.

One example from the book was of a guy who built theater seats trying to get a deal with a bigwig from Kodak.

Two hours of conversation, no mention of the theater, and next week Bigwig ordered the chairs for his new theater fro Mr Theater.

But hey, if it's an MS&E program and a bigwig Uni name, who was I to question?

Then it probably got disabled two months later, when some internal bigwig complained that it was getting in the way of their old workflow...

Get hired at Apple, work your way up the chain until you're a bigwig, and implement a new policy contrary to their current corporate culture?

Preferably with the name of the not so nice bigwig.

Is it fair that a co-op uses some strange criteria to let a bigwig, say a political donation bundler, with connections, have the penthouse and not you?

That disarmed Bigwig and got him talking about how he used to really care about carpentry and craftsmanship but has been taken over too much by his work.

I just think it's interesting that when I was at a major portal/search company, it seemed like one bigwig or another would leave "to spend more time with my family" every month or two.

Complimenting Bigwig's business acumen or wealth would have had no (or probably negative) effect, but there was another part of him that was starved for recognition.