Sentences with phrase «company goals like»

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Whereas Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has spoken about seeing every car uberized and the company has extended its tendrils into areas like delivery, Zimmer is careful to delineate distractions and define the limits of Lyft's goals.

But Karl Martin, co-founder of Bionym, the company that makes the Nymi, has his sights on a bigger goal: «persistent identity» — the idea that the Nymi, or something like it, could make the wearer instantly recognizable to wireless devices everywhere, whether at home or at a coffee shop in London.

Like most VC firms, its goal is to make smart bets and earn strong returns — but that's exactly why 40 % of the portfolio companies in Aspect's first fund were led by women.

Berkshire Hathaway has always been the quintessential buy - and - hold company — and helps ensure that its Class A shareholders are focused on the same long - term goals by refusing, for example, to indulge in gimmicks like stock splits.

The goal of any marketing promotion — for large companies or small — should not be participation in the contest, number of «likes» or some other advertising metric.

When your employees feel like you personally care about them, and that they are part of a collective team that is working towards a goal, they will feel like your company is more than just a place of work.

True to former slogans like «Losing is not an option,» CEO Mark Simo said in a press release that the goal is to reorganize the company and surface from under its debt.

Unless you have a startup that's trying to change the world, like Apple in its early years, I find personal goals that also benefit the company resonate better with employees than big - picture company goals.

The term — coined by James Collins and Jerry Porras in their 1996 article «Building Your Company's Vision» — refers to the 30 - year game changing goals, like Sony trying to change the worldwide perception of Japanese products being of poor quality.

Some, of course, may be understated, others, like a video game your kids play, have to have certain stages attained before they can be accomplished, but the seeds for your company's goals all lie in the structure that you build long before the doors ever opened.

When he founded Elite in 2004, the then 26 - year - old Kirshner's goal was to create a company that didn't treat its employees like disposable cogs, but instead, make their happiness its central mission.

He also didn't like that his salary was now so public, thanks to the media attention, and he worried that if he got used to the salary boost, he might never leave to pursue his ultimate goal of moving to a digital company.

We do random acts of appreciation throughout the year, like taking the whole company out for ice cream midday or bringing in McFlurrys for everyone in the office... we have breakfast catered every Friday, rebirthdays (celebrations on the anniversaries of hire dates), all the ladies receive flowers on Valentine's Day, parents receive letters on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and so much more... plus, the whole company is going to Miami for an all - expenses - paid trip in a month (revenue and nonrevenue producers) for hitting a sales goal.»

Through our web app, employees fill out a Mad Libs - like questionnaire that touches on what they do, what their goals are and who they serve in their work, reminding them of why they like working at the company.

«Don't give yourself a goal like «I have to build an app,» or «I have to start a company,» or «I have to write a book.»

Hiring a consultant who's good at managing a process leads staff to feel like they came up with the same goals for the company as you did.

«Your goal as a manager is not to be liked by everyone; if it is, you won't be making the best decisions for the company,» says Taylor.

Individuals will achieve more when they help shape their own goals and feel like they're able to make a big impact on the top company priorities.

Elon Musk has as many hours in the day as the rest of us do, and right now it sounds like his car company needs him to spend more of those hours focused on making sure it achieves its goal of revolutionizing the automotive industry.

My goal in this article is to teach you, much like I taught that company, how to identify whether or not your website has been negatively impacted from a Google penalty and what steps you can take to recover.

Polman sides with those who argue that the tyranny of quarterly goals traps public companies into continually trying to drive up share prices for investors, while downgrading more long - term, complicated missions, like improving working conditions and the environment.

A constant battle Jay deals with when speaking to companies is making them believe that they can reach huge goals like $ 100 million in revenue.

Founded by Christina Bognet after she successfully lost 50 pounds, the company uses an algorithm to help build the perfect, healthy meal plan for each person based on their dietary restrictions, diet preference, weight goals, and likes or dislikes.

She came into the company with one goal: to kill it like the rockstar she is.

«You can avoid the negative health consequences if you allow them to set their own goals, set their own schedules, prioritize their decision making, and the like,» he said in the Fast Company article.

He's also creator of «The 90 Day Year» Program, a goal achievement system used by athletes, entrepreneurs and companies like, Shell, Goldman Sachs, Cisco Systems and Government agencies around the world.

We like that Payoff provides a personalized experience — scheduling regular phone calls and check - ins with company representatives — to keep you focused on reaching your debt reduction goals.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

I am curious to know what the marketing strategy looks like moving forward and would love to touch on how [company] would be able to handle your growth goals compared to a non-scalable solution like [our current solution].

Our Business Partnerships team works with Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Gap, and TripAdvisor to support their global corporate citizenship goals.

The goal is to let users access things like weather updates, shopping notifications and personalized news from companies, but these bots are still very clunky and have not yet achieved widespread appeal.

Following the lead of Yuri Milner's investment company, which put money into companies like Facebook and Twitter, they also have more modest goals: turn a profit, improve their cachet among the start - up community and — as is often the case — learn from the companies in which they are investing.

Just like an athlete, a fit company finds ways to make its processes visible so that it can assess safety, velocity, and quality — and then align people around the commonly understood goals, to make the necessary adjustments, in real time, and move to a higher level of performance.

If that is your goal, concentrated positions in companies like Berkshire and IBM might make sense.

Along with hiring, Butterfield, Lee and their CBC colleagues said they would also press companies like Apple and Twitter this week to commit to new investment goals, including greater funding for science and engineering education programs.

The goal is a wall designed to look like an «extension of the surrounding landscape,» says the company.

I'm a huge supporter of micro-finance companies like Kiva, however, they serve another function and also have different goals from peer - to - peer lending platforms like Lending Club and Prosper.

The ultimate goal of every business Facebook post is to get engagement, whether it be asking people to «like» your company's Facebook page or to visit your company's website to make a purchase.

External goals like these tend to be set by your line manager or company founder, with or without your input.

They are a company set out to accomplish the goal of having crypto ATM's spread across the world like the traditional ATM...

«With the great strides we have made in our goal to be both a Quebec and Canadian player on the global stage, nevertheless we still have to deal with the reality of the current business environment in Canada, which presents real challenges to a company like ours,» the engineering giant's chief executive, Neil Bruce, said in prepared comments he made to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday.

Their goal: to have their now - giant tech company feel once again like a scrappy startup, with Page focused on expanding the businesses and Brin touting their most ambitious projects.

It's a goal that manufacturers share across many industries, from automakers to wineries to consumer goods companies, and even tech giants like Microsoft.

«Our goal is to be the leading super-premium tortilla company brand because I believe there are no other products like ours in the market place.»

The 100 goals puts him in rarefied company with the likes of Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish, Robbie Fowler and Kevin Keegan — a group that surely makes up some of the club's greatest legends.

39 goals and 13 assists in 44 competitive matches will elevate any player to the same breath as the likes of Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as ignite the sort of manic transfer speculation that comes with keeping such lofty company.

But, when you've bagged 8 goals in your last seven league matches like Zaza has, and trail only Barcelona's Lionel Messi in the scoring chart, proof of his scintillating form is shown in the company he holds.

«We help produce a lot of promotional products for companies, including things like apparel, cooler bags, mugs, pens and crystal items, and our goal is to do things tastefully,» she said.

Much like U.S. companies: «the goal is to achieve grid parity,» Trina spokesman Jeffrey Fan said during a visit to the company's Beijing offices in 2010.

It is part of the company's Personal Robotics Project, whose goal is to make a truly autonomous robotic assistant that can perform routine tasks at human speeds in cluttered environments like homes or offices.