Here are some ideas
from years past as well as some cool free printables from some of my favorite blogs!
Not exact matches
As seen in the chart below
from the IIF, the vast majority of that $ 25 trillion increase over the
past five
years occurred in emerging markets, swelling
from $ 42 trillion to $ 63 trillion.
While employees
from enterprise companies (defined
as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the
past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a
year ago.
Non-permanent workers such
as freelancers have grown
from 17 to 36 percent of the U.S. work force over the
past 25
years and are expected to comprise 43 percent of the work force by 2020, according to Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager of Self - Employed Solutions at Intuit.
Mervyn Kitay has been anointed
as chief executive in waiting at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over
from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the
past 19
years.
The complaints
from media outlets have been coming for the
past several months, with some reports of sudden traffic declines
as high
as 40 % compared with last
year.
Amazon was ranked number one,
as it was the
past two
years, and Tesla rose to third
from ninth.
This also explains why our attention has shifted so dramatically over the
past few
years from blogging and text status updates to picture updates, and why social - media sites such
as Pinterest, Instagram and Snapchat have burst on to the scene and become our favorite social sites.
In fact, the comments section of the above mentioned article has many stories of people who did sell in
past years because they thought house prices were too high, only to subsequently watch
from the sidelines
as prices continued to march upward.
«I explained how for the
past couple of
years I've kept Wednesdays clear on my calendar, usually worked
from home, and used it
as design / writing / solo - thinking time because the other four days get consumed with collaboration,» Schweikardt explained to the board, but lately «the collaboration days had gotten so busy, that Wednesdays had turned to email and administrivia catch - up days.»
Jennings suggests soliciting anonymous input
from your staff on a situation they were in during the
past year that made them uncomfortable
as a good starting point.
Incidentally, on this
year's list fewer companies rely on «Fortune 1,000» customers
as their main source of revenues than on lists
from the
past three
years.
But it's gained momentum over the
past year as major retail and restaurant chains — ranging
from Kmart to Neiman Marcus to Dairy Queen — have been hit by massive security breaches.
About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the
past 10
years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer
from the ailment, defined
as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.
Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence
from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such
as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the
past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.
The showcase was intended to get fickle programmers onside
as RIM tries to recover
from numerous blunders over the
past year, including flagging sales, a woefully underdeveloped apps store and criticism that it hasn't released a new smartphone in ages.
Fabletics is one of a slew of startups that have aimed to tackle the burgeoning «athleisure» trend, which has taken off the
past several
years as comfortable and athletic clothes are deemed increasingly on - trend
from a fashion perspective.
While the Dish Network's reach and power have weakened over the
past few
years just
as Viacom's have, the satellite company is still in a somewhat stronger position than it used to be relative to the entertainment giant, because it knows that Viacom is already suffering
from low viewership numbers, and that impacts its ad revenues.
Just
as I suspected, most of the decision makers and entrepreneurs were socially lubricating with a few Moscow Mules, engaging in genuine conversations and swapping stories of legendary shenanigans
from the
past years.
Modern Meadow is just one of 19 futuristic startups that have received donations
from the Thiel Foundation over the
past two
years as part of an unusual program called Breakout Labs.
One eye - popping factoid
from the report: Over the
past five
years, Amazon hired 49 MBAs
from Columbia Business School — nearly
as many
as the 51 MBAs Morgan Stanley hired over the same time period.
Habit Restaurants has expanded rapidly in the
past five
years, going
from 26 restaurants at the end of 2009 to 99
as of October.
EDM
as a popular trend has subsided
from its early - 2000s peak, and while electronic will never go away, the pop charts have drifted toward more traditional, less garish genres in the
past few
years.
Analysts say antitrust regulators may decide to block the combination, which would reduce the number of national carriers
from four to three,
as they have with similar deals in the
past few
years.
Local governments were identified
as a major risk to China's financial stability, partly due to their lending
from the «shadow banking» sector and debt accumulated over the
past years to upgrade infrastructure across the country.
Michael Goldberg, the head of ECM in the US for RBC, credited a favorable market backdrop — especially for IPOs — in the first quarter,
as well
as some payoff
from the firm's investments over the
past seven to nine
years in adding senior bankers to its US roster.
Though the artist didn't originally refer to her work
as specifically for adults until the trend gained traction within the
past two
years, Morrison recognizes how adult versions are different
from more elementary editions because of their complex and intricate designs.
Revenue forecasting can be especially difficult in your first few
years of business because you don't have
past sales figures or
as much experience to draw
from.
For the
past four or five
years, Vancouver's Wurldtech Security Technologies, founded
as a tech startup in 2006 by cybersecurity expert Nate Kube, has derived almost all of its revenue
from outside Canada.
As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the
past hundred
years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls
from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.
As we've seen with Instagram's relentless copy - cat approach over the
past year, another big risk for Snap is that the Facebook - backed company — or even Facebook itself — will simply move in on its market even further and suck all of the oxygen
from the room when it comes to video.
Bitcoin has appreciated rapidly over the
past year;
as of Monday, the value has increased more than 50-fold
from $ 11.00 in mid-November 2012.
Even though 9 % of sales now come
from offerings developed in the
past two
years, up
from 7 % in 2012, most are line extensions, such
as Doritos Roulette, a bag of chips in which one of five is super-spicy.
In
past years, it began investing heavily to branch out
from its online retail roots, delving into Hollywood - style content production
as well
as developing a line of tablets, smartphones and set - top boxes to accelerate the sale of digital content.
These guidelines, which we have introduced at almost all our companies over the
past few
years, effectively mean that
as long
as they do their work, our employees can work whenever they want,
from wherever they want.
And listen to an important piece of advice
from Tracy Wald, who has counted Microsoft
as a client for the
past 15
years, the last 10 during his tenure
as chief financial officer with Leonhardt Fitch.
As a former lawyer, business leader and now president of Bentley University for the
past seven
years, I can say that based on my personal experience, this stereotype couldn't be further
from the truth.
Below is a compilation of some of the most fascinating brawls
from this
year,
as well
as Black Fridays
past.
For those who like to send cards listing everything the family has done in the
past year, now augmented reality cards
from sites such
as Blippar and iGreet let you show your favorite selfies along with animated trees and dynamic presents.
Not only will the combined carrier reach about the same customer base
as larger rivals Verizon (vz) and AT&T (t), but reducing the number of competitors in the market to three
from four should also reduce competitive pressure that led to a fierce price war over the
past year.
Reiss may not see his company
as style - focused, but certainly Canada Goose's no - frills aesthetic falls in with major fashion movements of the
past few
years,
from normcore to athleisure, utilitarian to unisex and, of course, authenticity.
He has spent the
past two
years hustling,
from wooing top researchers to Canadian universities to appointing a Bollywood Star
as a tourism ambassador.
Over the
past year,
as it has gone
from success to success, Netflix's stock (NFLX) climbed by almost 130 % last
year, which made it the best performing stock in the S&P 500 index.
Over the
past three
years, we have increased sales
from $ 3.9 billion to $ 4.5 billion
as of the twelve month period ended April 27, 2013.
I'm guessing Bill is way
past $ 10 million a
year in podcasting revenue, and my pal Leo Laporte (for whom I have had the privilege of sitting in
as host
from time to time) is also at that $ 10m mark after laying the groundwork for the rest of us.
Not only has the United States used sanctions extensively
as a non-lethal tool of power - projection in the
past few
years, but this behavior has encouraged a range of other countries to follow suit;
from the EU to Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.
The standard advice
from financial advisors to 20 - somethings is to invest
as much
as they can in stocks — regardless of periodic market swings, however wild, like those seen over the
past few days — and watch long - term compounding do its magic for the next 40 - plus
years.
As was widely noticed, we also refrained
from making the point we have been making for the
past year or so about it «being unlikely that there would be no further rises in the course of the expansion».
As would be clear
from my utterances over the
past couple of
years, I have serious reservations about the extent of reliance on monetary policy around the world.
Over the
past three
years, MillerCoors's greatest growth has come
from smaller brands such
as Blue Moon, and the company is putting increasing emphasis on its imports, like Pilsner Urquell.