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Chris -- 2018-04-11
As a descriptive term for CEO’s and other big-shots, the substitute is at least as apposite as the original, if less ironic. It’s very common- 100k+ ghits vs 2 million:
Gabriella offers tailored Executive Coaching programmes to support movers and shapers; senior executives who are moving into a challenging new role …
www.gkmaudio.com/default_files/gghome_f … aching.htm
In the July issue of Tulsa People magazine, Cason Carter was named as one of the under 40 Movers and Shapers of Tulsa.
www.gablelaw.com/news_item.asp?news=94
The members were the movers and shapers in the world of healthcare and politics. All the big pharma CEOs, IT industry lords and politicians were to be found …
blog.esmt.org/mba/index.php/feed/
Father was the son of a French architect who had made his pile building mansions for the movers and shapers of booming post-warming Siberia …
www.sff.net/people/normanspinrad/glass.htm
Contained herein are the names of the thousand most important movers and shapers of the last thousand years, listed in order of significance: 1, 2, 3, ...
www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=749
... and as chancellor of the Open University, Briggs has been one of the movers and shapers of British higher education…
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2680(199421)34%3A1%3C93%3ATCEOAB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
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