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An article about Bad Company 2; detailing that the game will add some new material via DLC; EA has announced that the latest «Map» Pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is coming to PSN and Xbox... Read more

The main aspect that people are finding most appealing about Bad Company 2 regards the amount of skill and strategy actually needed when playing online.

Not exact matches

Yeah, entrepreneurs who've been successful in their first company tend to do better at their next one, but the difference between the best and the worst is only about 12 percent.

[Employees] are fairly used to people saying good and bad things [about the company].

But it's worth keeping in mind that November 2009 research by Covergys, a Cinncinnati company that provides call - center services, has shown that a bad review on social media can cost a company about 30 customers.

Let's explore some of the worst rules that companies create when they fall into this trap and see if we can't influence people to think differently about making rules in the workplace.

This means that loyal, skilled employees who know and understand the company end up feeling badly about themselves.

Greycroft co-founder Alan Patricof said Friday that Amazon is «not necessarily» a bad company, but urged that «as a society we have to think about the fact that, you know, at what point do we say we're destroying the fabric of America?»

Auto insurance companies aren't crazy about car sharing: Who's liable if a renter has a fender bender or, worse, steals a car?

After a year of mounting bad press about the tech giants, the companies are feeling the impact in different ways.

(Compare that to the infamously bad airline service suffered by Canadian musician Dave Carroll, whose $ 3,500 guitar was broken while travelling on United Airlines in 2009: Carroll's YouTube song about the experience, «United Breaks Guitars,» did lasting damage to the company's image.)

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal (first reported on by ZDNet), Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun spoke about the company's foray into the US, saying that the first smartphones might arrive as early as the end of this year, or in early 2019 at worst.

Every workplace will have a certain amount of gossiping, but if one of your employees enjoys reporting bad news about you, others in your company, or even the competition, that's destructive behavior and you need to do something about it.

After years of double - digit growth, Micromarketing's sales slid so badly in 2001 that McElaney grew concerned about the company's viability.

«In start - up companies, it's all about «who do I trust» and sometimes nepotism will come in,» Fraedrich says, and family - run businesses have to be especially vigilant against an ethical lapse that could lead at best to employee dissatisfaction and at worst to a discrimination suit.

For instance, if you're feeling insecure about your company's growth, you might go from feeling bad to even worse if you read about a competitor's recent profitability.

That year, 2007, was about the worst year to invest in any public U.S. company, especially big ones.

Worse, if the companies spell out exactly how their screening works, they run the risk that technologically savvy militants will learn more about how to beat their systems.

Annette Tonti, CEO of Mofuse, a mobile website builder, says that instead of creating a bad app just for the sake of creating one, you should first think about what kind of company you are and whether setting up a mobile site might be better suited for you.

When company leaders practice vulnerability, sharing their disappointment about bad news or their passion and excitement for a company's new direction, then employees can better identify with the leadership.

It's a cliché about how bad some call centres are, but plenty of companies still don't get it.»

Its bad luck began in January when the #DeleteUber movement led to a flurry of account deletions by customers upset about the company's ties to President Trump.

«I no longer needed approval or adulation from the outside world — maybe because the stock price was at an all - time low and the noise coming from every constituency was so bad and so critical about both the company and me.

The first is a practical matter for the paper, which is that attacking and undermining the source that helped the company win a Pulitzer Prize looks hypocritical at best and craven at worst, and is almost certain to make future Snowdens think twice or even three times about going to the newspaper with a leak or a classified tip.

«Worse, the company just seemed to not care about the employees anymore.

Executives have talked about veering the company toward fitness - and health - oriented products, which might not be a bad idea given that it has all but worn out its welcome with the core gaming audience and third - party developers.

Whether good or bad, employees appreciate knowing how they are being perceived, but many companies lack direct and honest communication about successes and failures.

Citing global stats, the infographic also notes that bad bosses cost companies about US$ 360 billion a year, reduce employees» workplace engagement, and are often the direct reasons for valuable staff leaving the enterprise.

With hard work, good cyberslething and a bit of luck companies like ours will keep pace with the bad guys» attacks — but companies need to do their part and get smart about the potential threats.

In a piece he wrote for Medium recently, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz talks about the early days of the company and how he slept little and ate badly, and was hyper - competitive with co-workers.

In 2012, I wrote about a study that looked at the winners of bidding wars for contested acquisitions, and found they generally do worse over the next few years that the companies that lost.

Not only is your worst employee probably costing the company twice as much as a star employee is earning it, according to science, but that jerk is almost certainly making everyone else miserable along the way (according to just about everyone who has ever had to endure one).

If you're an executive concerned about low morale, employee satisfaction or engagement, or — at worst — a revolving door at your company, start by looking at who your current managers are.

Also, you should stop the unconscionable practice of requiring employees and portfolio companies to sign agreements that prevent them from saying anything (or anything bad) about your companies.

I know we hear a lot of talk about how this might be «the last good quarter,» but I could argue that it was the last bad quarter for this company.

I wrote an improvement of Alicia's email based on these concepts: — specificity of: target b2b and expected results — be educational with numbers and reference to a case study — do nt talk bad about outbound marketing, but tell him how to do it better — write even shorter to the point — social proof: drop big companies of other industries — scarcity: this email is sent to 10 competitors but we only work with the first per city

I had a pretty bad customer service interaction with jlab recently and I'd like to write about my experience with the company to make sure people know what they are getting to when they buy a pair of these earbuds.

The classy thing for this failed emperor to do would be to step down, but he probably cares more about his reputation or worse, he has some perverted sense of duty to the company which he delusionally believes needs him.

The bad thing about making your face synonymous with the company you run: When you go M.I.A., everyone tends to notice.

The company says it won't throw good money after bad until someone can do something about the NDP government of John Horgan in B.C., who promised in the election last summer to try to stop the project.

«Something smelled bad about it from the beginning,» said 451 Research analyst Alan Pelz - Sharpe, who has been following Autonomy since the company went public in 1998.

Think about it, if you make an inquiry, how do you feel when you do not get an immediate response, or, worse, you have to call the company again?

We've written earlier about how that is generally a bad idea (more on that later), but to illustrate our point and in light of the current retail climate, we thought it'd be a good idea to show you what happens to a store - branded credit card when the company shuts its doors.

Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.

And worse, the «boss» at your client's company who knows the most about their industry is not available to ask questions — you might picture him or her all like;

If you believe you have a great idea and are passionate about trying to build a company around it then the only thing worse than raising money from inexperienced people is raising no money at all.

That's the thing with branding: what people think about your company is not so much what you say but what you do, and that many people immediately assume the worst about Facebook and privacy is Facebook's own fault.

But something about that prized demographic makes the uncoolest of tech companies lose its head and become even uncooler — and, even worse, act like the Donald Trump of the tech world.

The reason this is bad is because no one really talks about all of the companies that didn't do well, so you're left with a false hope that you too can create the next big company.

Been working for my company for 10 years now, and people say all sorts of bad things about corporate America.