Truly great business leaders are few and far between.
Maybe that's why so many of the world's
truly great business leaders are voracious readers.
In this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate
truly great businesses from those that are merely good.
Indeed, it's often a mistake to do so:
Truly great businesses, earning huge returns on tangible assets, can't for any extended period reinvest a large portion of their earnings internally at high rates of return.
Indeed, it's often a mistake to do so:
Truly great businesses, earning huge returns on tangible assets, can't for any extended period reinvest a large portion of their earnings internally at high rates of return.
I viewed it as a direct signal from the Oracle that he couldn't find
any truly great businesses any more.
Truly great art comes from within — and
truly great businesses come from within as well.
Not exact matches
James Altucher has a
great system of doing this where he thinks up 10
business ideas or solutions that are
truly well thought out, organized and prepared, then sends them to influencers he'd like to know better with no request or ask.
It takes time to create
great products and a stable
business, so I've learned that to succeed you have to remain consistent, especially when you
truly believe in something.
«French's Food is a
truly fantastic
business with
great brands, people and a history of outperformance.
As a
business leader, make choices about what to prioritize and give your team the resources to follow through, so that they can make two or three key projects
truly great.
In the post «What
Truly Great Bosses Believe» (excerpted from
Business Without the Bullsh*t), I go through all eight of the core beliefs that tend to result in a corporate culture that is flexible and thus adapts more easily to changing conditions.
By learning what a candidate is
truly great at, you can both tailor the position to make best use of their talents and evaluate how they might be of use to your
business in the future.
Leadership matters, and as a leader, you have the opportunity (and the obligation) to paint and communicate an inspiring vision of what your
business can
truly be, and the role of each member of your team in creating that
great business.
While fast fulfillment is an important factor in ensuring
great customer service,
businesses need to create a positive overall shopping experience to
truly win big with customers.
Truly one of the more simple and yet insightful quotes from Dr. King, it is also a
great tenet of
business.
Spend enough time listening — and observing
great listeners in action — and you'll find yourself hiring not necessarily folks with significant experience in your specific field, but the sort of people who
truly care, and who make your customers feel like your company is grateful for their
business.
- Awesome team members - Ongoing personal and professional development -
Great company culture - Above average pay for retail - Great benefits - Opportunity for great bonuses - Doesn't feel like working retail - Ability to learn, grow, and develop - truly feels like you have ownership over the business and are able to contribute to the success of the
Great company culture - Above average pay for retail -
Great benefits - Opportunity for great bonuses - Doesn't feel like working retail - Ability to learn, grow, and develop - truly feels like you have ownership over the business and are able to contribute to the success of the
Great benefits - Opportunity for
great bonuses - Doesn't feel like working retail - Ability to learn, grow, and develop - truly feels like you have ownership over the business and are able to contribute to the success of the
great bonuses - Doesn't feel like working retail - Ability to learn, grow, and develop -
truly feels like you have ownership over the
business and are able to contribute to the success of the store
While women - owned
businesses have made
great strides in federal contracting, officials still have a lot of work ahead to create a
truly equitable playing field.
Add in the fact that modern technologies
truly do save a
great deal of time and effort, versus the older, slower ways of doing
business.
We partner with mission - driven entrepreneurs who understand and believe that by building
great businesses, they can
truly impact individual lives.
In short, our hope is that this Scorecard will
truly «move the dial» and be the start of a new era for
Greater Vancouver's
business community.
One
great way to
truly assess whether or not one of these
business opportunities is legitimate is by requesting a list of other people who have signed on.
But if one is able to invest in a
great business at perhaps an equally -
great value, they're setting themselves up for
truly outstanding investment performance over both the short term and long term.
Content marketing empowers your
business to create interesting content and generate fruitful conversations with potential customers who are
truly interested in what you're talking about, which is a
great way to build customer relationships.
If you're looking to
truly create wealth in a
business, or drive solid income growth in service of the
business, then you simply must be
great.
When that happens,
businesses from all segments of the foodservice industry can lose focus on what
truly drives success: creating
great customer experiences.
«IFDA is a
great organization that
truly helps the foodservice distributor industry through research, education, and
business forums.»
I'm not talking about football tourists,
business entertainers or season ticket borrowers but those who are being left behind by a club that doesn't care for the fans or what
truly makes a
GREAT football club which is success on the Field and not in the balance books.
In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted
business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible
business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are
truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a
great day fellow Gunners
why was Sanchez
truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting
business ahead of fielding a team with the
greatest chance to secure 3 points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been
truly in it for quite some time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this club, on the outside looking in
All this is accepted blindly as being the norms of football for no other reason than it is what the Market wants and does (sic ``... like «trading», football is a results
business»)-- indeed these values are lauded and held up on high so that we now reach the point here when even a
truly great manager is being subjected to a witch - hunt by sections of the media and so - called fans who question his tenure of his post and ask what has he got to do to be sacked.
I thank you for this
great day in showing that
truly the National Assembly is here in support of Nigerians to create an environment that enables them to be able to create
business and seek opportunities.»
Love this post and love the idea of purchasing through independent
businesses who use their resources to help their community, environment and
truly the
greater good!
We
truly love our jobs and we take immense pleasure in supporting
businesses who share our passion for weddings,
great customer service and good old fashioned love.
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«Many organizations can have
great HCM initiatives, but the standard of excellence only applies for organizations whose HCM practices
truly benefit the
business.
It has tons of
great insights about how they are thinking about their publishing
business and a lot of the mindset, tactics, and long - term strategies that they are implementing in order to
truly succeed with this
business!
Sometimes when you are self - publishing you might not know who you are
truly doing
business with and some of these companies go to
great lengths to hide the Author Solutions connection.
I was honored to have Dan Smith at my wedding and
truly it would not have been complete without him — he is what I consider a
business partner, a
great friend, an advisor and a part of my family.
Big
business is unforgiving and a
truly great book can be overlooked for stupid reasons.
This is a
truly great reason to start a small
business, but... do your homework.
Being part of the Fur Ball Gala & Auction is a
great way to promote your
business while
truly making a difference in the lives of our local abandoned, abused and neglected animals.
Overall, a
great place to stay for leisure or for
business, the spa facility also is very nice, and the food from their restaurant is
truly Authentic Thai.
Molyneux added: «Making a
truly successful game means finding a
great fit of both creativity and
business.
Most bizarrely, no mention is made of alternative
business structures as used in the UK or Australia — structures that would allow for imaginative combinations that would
truly allow for
greater access to justice.
Unfortunately, whilst a
great idea in principle a
truly «liquid workforce» would be difficult to implement for a large proportion of UK
businesses in my opinion without changes to the law on employment status, as well as perhaps a profound change in attitude of all concerned.
We knew that as recruiters we could play an important part in one of the
great business stories of our time: the emergence of a
truly responsive and globally - capable 21st century legal profession.
But we need
great lawyers to fortify themselves not just with legal knowledge but with
business skills as well, so that they can
truly lead not just within their practices but with their clients.
Thought - provoking analysis and commentary on how organizations can transform their
businesses with
truly great data.