bottleneck
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In 2016, CEO Niraj Shah asked her to become the chief people officer, or CPO, to oversee talent acquisition globally—especially technical talent—since that was the company’s primary growth bottleneck, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“That just shows you that we’re short of capital. The actual bottleneck is there.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
The biggest bottleneck to the global trade of energy is no longer crude oil, according to the head of Kuwait’s state oil company.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
But we can use the physical bottleneck of energy to impose a clear and simple restraint on an industry that has otherwise proved elusive to regulate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
I went to France the following summer knowing only the word for bottleneck.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Mehndiratta, who joined Thrive as a partner in 2021 and previously worked on data science at Blackstone, said the company builds dedicated engineering teams alongside experienced practitioners in each industry to find and remove bottlenecks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
That creates real risks with predictable consequences: knowledge concentrated among too few people, decision-making bottlenecks, diminished bench strength, and an organization increasingly vulnerable to the absence or departure of a few individuals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The primary takeaway, according to Citrini, is that while AI-enabled research can dramatically compress the intellectual and design phase of drug development down to a few days, severe physical bottlenecks remain.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Junctions on the M4 in Newport could close, and a new bridge built across the Menai Strait, as part of Welsh government plans for two notorious transport bottlenecks.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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