When you commit to making accountability stick, you improve your chances of
becoming a great company.
You'll even get tips on successfully handling board meetings or
becoming great company at a classic dinner party.
It just seemed to me that the best way to understand how great entrepreneurs
become great company builders was to take the greatest companies of the 20th century and then rewind the tape of history to when they were start - ups.
Jim Collins is a student and teacher of enduring great companies - how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can
become great companies.
Not exact matches
Ma told the Stanford Graduate School of Business (where she received her MBA in 2006) in an interview that her goal is to
become a builder of
great tech
companies.
A truly
great company logo
becomes synonymous with its identity.
In the future, more and more
companies will
become great because of their product and engineering.
It's
great to see that people are
becoming invested in a
company's purpose or mission.
And, as she connected founders and investors, she saw that more often than not, it was the white male founders she helped that received the most opportunities: «It
became clear really fast that there were certain people who were not getting meetings, even if they had a really
great company.»
«It's
great to have the name of a big
company backing you, but if they don't do something with it, it can
become a real problem.»
«Most
companies that are
great at something... do not
become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.
What's so flawed about that way of thinking, Clark says, is that it doesn't leave time or space for the best practices of hiring that are proven to be conducive to finding employees who either
become great for their
company or stay with the
company for the desired amount of time.
They look for the most promising employees, and provide them with the training they need to
become their
company's next generation of
great leaders.
«Some of them seem like very fundamental stuff, but they were core to us, and it was
great to see that the
company we were about to
become a part of had a lot of those values within.»
«And when I look at my friends who are running other good
companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the
companies end up
becoming really
great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.
Companies that want to
become talent magnets for new graduates should find ways for these fresh faces to contribute right away, says Laura Peña, a consultant at
Great Place to Work.
Add to this truth the lightning fast and obviously very public nature of social media and mistakes
become nearly inevitable — and potentially disastrous, as many
companies have already found out to their
great embarrassment.
«ModiFace
became what it is because of the excellent engineering talent in Toronto... It's a
great place to have a tech
company.
The labs of large, multinational
companies and academic research efforts at major universities or governments are
great at churning out innovations that
become the basis for startups.
There are thousands of start - ups, far fewer successful start - ups, fewer still that
become successful
companies, even fewer that go from successful
company to enduring
company, and a tiny handful that
become great, enduring
companies.
Collins is the author of the best - selling business books Built to Last and Good to
Great, both of which address this simple but vexing question: Why do some companies become great while others flou
Great, both of which address this simple but vexing question: Why do some
companies become great while others flou
great while others flounder?
Its window of opportunity to
become one of the next
great Silicon Valley tech
companies may close sooner than later.
Great company cultures can eradicate loneliness, which has ironically
become the byproduct of our ever - connected, technological society.
Glueck sought inspiration for how to evolve the
company's culture, and referred to Good to
Great, a book by Jim Collins about how 11
companies shook off mediocrity to
become market leaders.
In fact, the
greatest obstacle to the Canadian
company's
becoming an internationally recognized brand on the level of BlackBerry or Four Seasons hotels is the threat of a takeover by one of these giants.
«Hopefully by then we'll have a
great story that's on its way to
becoming a public
company or potentially a strategic sale exit.»
And, as their high Quick Ratio implies, they have a
great chance to continue growing quickly and healthfully, and eventually
become one of those fabled SaaS
companies with a run rate of more than $ 10 million.
(One small town, Quincy, Florida,
became the per capita millionaire record holder in the United States because the local banker convinced everyone the
company was one of the
greatest businesses in operation.
As tech
companies push their businesses into making wearable devices like fitness bands, eyeglasses and smart watches, the limitations of battery technology have
become the biggest obstacle to sales and
greater profits.
The Brand Mapping Strategy: Design, Build and Accelerate Your Brand (Entrepreneur Press, June 2016) helps entrepreneurs, business owners, CEOs and executives create a brand (business or personal) by design instead of default, gain
greater influence in their industries and
companies and
become thought / industry leaders in their field.
As soon as more capital
becomes available, I'll be gnashing my teeth in some of these
great companies
As soon as more capital
becomes available, I'll be pulling my punches in some of these
great companies
RL: We're an earlier investor in Wag and we see SoftBank as a
great partner and complementary resource for
companies that have the potential to
become category kings.
BlackBerry and Nortel are
great older examples of Canadian
companies becoming powerhouses in driving innovations that eventually
become a way of life.
I think that at some point FB could
become a
great dividend growing
company, just like Apple, Inc (AAPL) first initiated dividends in 2012 and since then, has grown it at a fast clip.
In fact,
great creative design has
become a proven differentiator among many early - stage
companies.
Leaders die, products
become obsolete, markets change, new technologies emerge, and management fads come and go, but core ideology in a
great company endures as a source of guidance and inspiration.
Today that
company has
become another
great American success story.
In and through this experience, which
becomes the illuminating event of our total everyday life, one finds himself in a
great company, the Church: a member of a body that lives in the Christ - happening, dwells in this Word of the Lordship of Christ.
Perhaps we are to think this is the selling point: a promise, quite literally, of attractiveness, to
become one of those who would make so
great and growing a
company from the small band of Jesus» followers.
«I feel responsible to honor the
great people who started our
company while continually challenging myself and my coworkers to make us better each day,» he says, adding that the purchase by Campofrio has given the entire operation the resources it needs to
become a trusted supplier of European Specialty Meats throughout North America.
The Fort Wayne, Ind. - based
company has
become one of America's
greatest steakhouses because of its quality, exceptional hospitality and unparalleled atmosphere.
Given the success within the Busch family, Southern Eagle is on a clear path to
becoming the
greatest beverage
company around.
George Reisch, the head brew master there for 35 years,
became a friend years ago and I have so much admiration for him professionally and personally that it was
great when he envisioned a way for me to work with such a world respected
company and brand.
During the 1870 - 1880s, it appears from the use of identical pepper sauce bottles (other than embossing), that the E.R. Durkee
Company in New York and Stickney & Poor Spice
Company in Boston
became great rivals.
On June 1, 2016, Dow
became the 100 percent owner of Dow Corning Corporation's silicones business, a global
company with sales of
greater than $ 4.5 billion in 2015, 25 manufacturing sites in 9 countries and approximately 10,000 employees worldwide.
A
great hulk of a Californian and his 18 - year - old son invited us to spend the night, as anxious for American
company as we had
become in a month away from civilization.
David Hart, communications director at The
Great Run
Company, said: «Now in its 10th year, the
Great North 10k Gateshead has grown to
become the North East's biggest 10k running event.
Most
companies that are
great at something — like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores — do not
become great at new things people want (streaming for us).
As the cloth diaper world has developed beyond diaper services, prefolds, and diaper covers and into modern cloth diapers, we've learned a
great deal about how the disposable diaper
companies work, how they market, how they
became what they are today, what they tell consumers, how they lobby, what they don't tell you... and why.