What can we as
an industry do about it?
This is a deliberate tactic to sow confusion in the minds of the public about the climate change science, just as the tobacco
industry did about the link between smoking and cancer, Amstrup said in an interview with Motherboard.
Critics argue that they have also been suppressing the true implications of global warming, somewhat as the tobacco
industry did about the dangers of cigarettes.
Not exact matches
As entrenched as the auto
industry is, footholds
do exist for new entrepreneurs who are niche - oriented, innovative and passionate
about cars.
You could also host a day - long learning opportunity, inviting others in your
industry to attend and learn more
about the work you
do.
Webber learned all she could
about the
industry, in part by taking advantage of the fact that her mostly male competitors didn't take her seriously as a woman landscaper.
RH: Being a Latina in an
industry that is so predominantly male and white, how
do you feel
about the importance of diversity?
Our vice president Tim Katsch also
does a great job of keeping me informed
about industry trends and best practices.
For a company that has a theoretical market value of
about $ 1.5 billion, BuzzFeed doesn't get a lot of respect from the traditional media
industry.
As an entrepreneur in the fashion
industry, I've been to networking events and gatherings where some entrepreneurs in technology don't further conversations or ask me questions
about my company because they feel that we're on different playing fields.
As for Serbinis, he's a little uncertain
about how wine will factor into the health and wellness
industry he's working in now: «Maybe we'll be
doing green juices together.»
«Innovators who seek to revolutionize and disrupt an
industry must tell investors the truth
about what their technology can
do today, not just what they hope it might
do someday.»
It's actually quite a relief to hear from someone with years of experience who has built a substantial, multi-decade career in a major
industry at a global corporation (BP / Amoco) instead of a wet - behind - the - ears «expert» who's had
about 15 minutes of startup success and no clue
about how he or she got there, or what to
do next.
«I
do think there is more balance, it's probably more 80 - 20,» says Demirors, who was also recently profiled in a Glamour magazine feature
about the growing number of female executives transforming the cryptocurrency
industry.
«Not long ago people were defiant and angry [
about what I was
doing], saying I was trying to hurt the
industry.
This gap between the immense curiosity
about leadership and the few hard and fast rules
about how to
do it well has spawned an entire
industry dedicated to pedaling dubious leadership «truths,» Stanford business school professor and author Jeffrey Pfeffer warns in a recent McKinsey Quarterly article.
A restaurant - hiring app sitting down with a creative journalist; a shopping platform grabbing coffee with a collegiate social media app; different
industries making you think differently
about what you're
doing.
It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study
about the New York tech
industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.
«But very few people can take a frustration they have with an incumbent
industry, think
about how to apply technology to it in a different way, and then
do it.
A new breed of startup is betting that the key to toppling an
industry is to
do just
about everything yourself.
Though the committee didn't offer details on how the banking
industry might incorporate bitcoin into its business, it was optimistic
about the currency's potential effect on the economy:
The best thing lawmakers can
do is consult the cryptocurrency
industry when drafting new legislation or regulation to better understand it, and to be very clear
about what definitions are used, Fanusie said.
The company's publisher, Dao Nguyen, wrote recently
about how this affects what BuzzFeed
does, and how the things it is measuring have been changing as the media
industry evolves.
«When you walk into the room, if you don't know more
about your business, your
industry, your company, and your customers than everybody else in the world, you're lying to yourself.»
So as the idea developed,
about 6 months after
doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people,
industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.
This year — with some of the more influential minds within the
industry, state and federal government, and academia all gathered on his back patio — Jenkins wants to
do more than just talk
about what can be
done.
Bogusky is one of the biggest players in the advertising
industry, and he's got lots of ideas he likes to share with people — especially
about environmentalism, and what people are
doing to innovate in the space.
The tech
industry, with it's army of engineers and eggheads, is the most dynamic and chattered
about sector around, so - called «quants» are the new media superstars, and even something as old - school as farming is being radically disrupted by new, smarter ways of
doing business.
And what
does the star investor and tech
industry veteran (who made his first millions when he sold his computer consulting firm Microsolutions to CompuServe in 1990, before a lot of the kids in the audience were born) think
about scrappy young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs trying to compete with him?
Federal regulators have warned
about these companies, but they haven't
done much to regulate the
industry.
«It's very sad and I'm very conscious that this woman's family has suffered a tremendous loss, but if you think
about the
industry, it's the safest form of transportation ever built and it's
done nothing but improve,» said John Cox, a former airline pilot who is now president of consulting company Safety Operating Systems.
The energy that's taken up by looking at what other businesses are
doing and worrying
about why your business isn't further along could be better spent innovating and exploring the issues not being addressed in your
industry and how you could provide solutions for them.
His comments set off a spirited discussion
about what the
industry needs, how it can nudge the FAA in the right direction, and — most importantly — what the
industry can
do on its own without help from the FAA.
The other thing we identified
about the Metatag was that Best in Class made use of the 67 to 70 character limit whereas the
Industry Average
did not.
What to include: Business plans vary in length — anywhere from 20 to 50 pages — but typically cover the same topics, such as: Cover Page (essential contact information); Executive Summary (what your business
does and what market need it solves); Company Overview (profile of company and successes);
Industry Analysis (details
about the market); Customer Analysis (who are the customers); Competitive Analysis (identify key competitors); Marketing Plan (your brand and how
do you plan on getting it in front of customers); Operations Plan (daily and yearly operational processes for success); Management Team (identify key company personnel); and Financial Plans (revenue projections for three to five years).
Before you can change your
industry positively, you need to understand how to go
about doing so.
Sheriff West took aim at the wholesalers at a moment of growing focus on the
industry's role in prescription drug distribution and outrage
about what it had
done in West Virginia.
What's required: This tech - heavy
industry requires a great deal of knowledge
about what can be
done to improve the transportation
industry.
Founder Adam Robinson is passionate
about recruiting; not only
does he have over 20 years experience in the
industry, he has written a book
about the power of predictive hiring.
Canadian CEOs agree that natural resource companies should stay in Canadian hands, although they don't feel the same way
about companies in other
industries.
You don't need to listen too closely to hear the pips squeaking in Western Australia's iron ore lemon after a week - long debate
about the state's most important
industry, which appears to be heading for a crisis that will hit companies and governments in equal measure.
But none of those publications care much
about the technology
industry and its masters — and certainly none of them has ever delved into Thiel's personal life, as Gawker - owned Valleywag
did in 2007 when it published a claim that Thiel is gay.
Or
do you want to work at Questrade, where we're all
about making change in the financial services
industry?»
Weiner didn't say, but think data, data, and more data eventually available to you —
about potential new hires, competitors, and your
industry as a whole.
But the economically disenfranchised blue - collar voters who put him in office don't care
about the tech
industry; they want to roll back the clock to a time before the internet, before automation in factories, before the flow of global goods, services, and capital made Silicon Valley wildly rich.
Verzello and Goodwin don't worry much
about consistency, since the Lion Brewery, their contract brewer, enjoys a good reputation in the
industry.
In the manufacturing
industry, a recent study by Boston Consulting Group found that by 2025, robots will
do about 25 percent of all industrial tasks — and that inexpensive robots are becoming increasingly available to smaller companies.
Clearly, President Trump should tread carefully when
doing deals in
industries he knows nothing
about.
The first step to begin a creative business approach is to think less
about what your business should
do, and more
about which
industry problems need to be solved.
If now - President Trump wants to
do things right, he needs to wait and consider all the various political and economic dynamics at stake before he makes another mistake trying to
do a «deal» in an
industry that he knows nothing
about.