Sentence examples for burning platforms from inspiring English sources

We love "burning platforms".

The results mirror the diverse topographic-edaphic characteristics (terrestrial, boggy and alluvial sites) of the charcoal burning platforms and the surrounding forests in detail.

Other bosses often need to face a crisis a "burning platform", in the memorable phrase of Stephen Elop, Nokia's boss before they make changes.

After the Lewisham debacle, the special administrator concerned says he needed these new draconian powers when he found himself "on a burning platform", where the bankrupt trust was haemorrhaging money by the week.

When the chief executive of Marie Claire owner IPC Media told the great and the good of the publishing world that magazines are a "burning platform", the industry's annual conference looked set to be a bleak affair.

According to the suit, a sales executive said that "California is a burning platform" for Anheuser.

"And now we have a burning platform, which could help us do it".

It probably feels like more of a burning platform for him than it does for me".

"This was a burning platform and they needed someone who could stop the flames burning their knees.

In a memo to his staff, Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop, said the company was standing on a "burning platform".

"One thing that makes it easier rather than harder to effect change is a burning platform," Mr. Morrison said.