Sentences with phrase «not great company»

You have your days when you just aren't feeling like the life of the party, and even you would admit that you're not great company.

I told him AIG was not the great company that it once was.

But that doesn't mean that Airbnb isn't a great company, isn't going to be worth a heck of a lot of money going forward.

Although EA isn't the greatest company either, it was really cool, and smart, of them to pick up what Activision had decided to dump.

Not exact matches

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA?

«You love your company, you think your company is great, but if you're not around, what are people going to be able to remember?

If your customers don't «succeed» by using your product how can you build a great company?

In the beginning, that's a great business model, right, because all you're doing is you create this anonymous shell company, you give it a name, you don't care who actually is behind it and you stick it in a folder and you forget about it until a year passes and it's time to invoice for the renewal.

Moving forward, the company has been testing new baked goods acknowledging that its baked goods don't have a great reputation.

Wouldn't it be great if your company beat them to it?

«The Hogan lawsuit, the pressure it put us under, the decisions we made as a result of that pressure, professionalizing the company, streamlining our objectives, focusing on the seven great media brands that we have, taking on outside capital, realizing we can't do it ourselves.

A great office doesn't need to be large; in fact, there are plenty of benefits to being scrappy that large companies try to imitate.

That's what separates a great company from a company that's not so great.

While shareholders will receive only the slightest of premiums on their 12 - cent share price, the big winners are bondholders, who will recoup a greater share of their loans and not be saddled with stock in an operationally troubled and undercapitalized company.

Not according to Plasticity co-founder and chief marketing officer Jennifer Moss, who says that while it's true that some employees don't like the company's platform, many benefit from it in ways that aren't as attention - grabbing as the smile - bomb surprise that Plasticity suggests trying: covering a co-worker's desk in sticky note messages about how great they are.

We wanted not just their capital to invest, but also the credibility they could bring that would shine a spotlight on entrepreneurs in the middle of the country who are building great companies.

Internship programs can also be a great resource for companies, particularly start - ups that might not have the same type of talent draw as their larger counterparts.

A great example are Freelancer Management Systems (FMS)-- not only assisting companies in engaging freelancers but for serving as a repository of company knowledge about the freelance workforce that acts as a company's ongoing source of freelance talent.

A team of salespeople who are not only great at their jobs, but also believe in the company mission will speak louder to investors than any pitch can.

«There are some great, well - established companies with long track records of franchising success, but they aren't exactly on the cutting edge anymore,» says Mark Siebert, CEO of the iFranchise franchise consulting group, based in Homewood, Illinois.

Contributing to investor pessimism was the fact that the merger deal didn't include a break up fee... suggesting the companies themselves have no great confidence in their ability to win approval in Washington.

You might have great ideas but not the skills to build a company.

That's not to say we should all come in to work liquored up, but it does suggest that having a drink during the day can be for the greater good of the company.

Even the best recruiting firm in the world can't win you great hires if you have a poor company culture.

Although psychological tests have long been dismissed by skeptics, many companies are using them — with great success — to match employees to jobs that they won't want to leave.

While legal, it's presumably not great for Yelp's reputation if the public thinks the company is tinkering with its review - filtering algorithm based on whether or not a company pays for advertising.

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

Great company culture doesn't happen on its own.

The fact is, a company is not made great by its name.

Inspiring those you lead to do great work for the love of the work itself and not because they'll receive a trophy at the end of the game or a mention in the next company newsletter.

Some of the best companies pivot or excel because of great ideas from their people; why not allow your team members to make waves in your own company?

These companies aren't household names and they seldom get much love in the media, but being boring can be a great way to get rich

Strategic buyers and investors are looking to buy companies who have great executive teams in place that not only deliver results in revenue and profits now, but who also have built in the upside to deliver growth into the future.

Since no manager or consultant is smart enough to foresee everything when setting up an incentive plan, I sometimes did things that were great for my commission but not so good for customer satisfaction or the company's long - term goals.

He said the «great» companies in China, such as Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu, are «very close if not equal to our very best AI companies,» such as Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon and Apple.

So, although «the risk of climate change is clear and the risk warrants action» (in the form of greater energy efficiency and emissions - reducing technology), the big oil company will not be writing down any of its reserves.

After a company has been in business for a few months or years, company leaders may realize their original, brilliant idea wasn't as great as they initially believed.

That's not great, but the company says there'll be a paid add - on that will increase that number to an unspecified amount.

«This is both a response to everything you are seeing in the world, this DOD regulation, but also an effort by not just the DOD, but by the administration to drive companies in the private sector generally towards greater cybersecurity and more disclosure with the government,» Lee said.

The cost of the boycotts to Pampered Chef's kitchen consultants was so great that Berkshire discontinued its shareholder charitable contribution program, with Buffett commenting that he wouldn't continue a program, even one with merit, that hurt the livelihoods of company employees.

«Hiring women isn't just the right thing for companies to do — it's more profitable... and creates greater shareholder value,» Smith said.

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.»

«A lot of these companies have great promise, but not that many of them have converted that promise into great customer value,» Maxwell says.

Not only are the figures for women - owned companies very low, relative to the female fraction of the labor force, but also the growth of women's business ownership seems to be greatest among non-employer businesses, which have little economic impact.

Doerr didn't provide any further thought to his reasoning, but he did note that Costolo's done a great job as CEO, bringing the company from roughly $ 3 billion to over $ 24 billion in market cap.

It is her responsibility, not as a daughter, but as a business leader, to always act in the interest of all the constituencies that make a company great.

«Our mission is to empower this new generation to take greater ownership in their financial future,» the company says, «which we believe can help shrink the gap between the «haves» and the «have nots» and lead to a healthier, more robust global economy.»

It, like everyone, was hit hard by recession, and did what a lot of companies did: dramatically reduced costs, laid off workers, raised prices, and went back to customers and said, «I'm sorry we can't honor this contract...» The response from Wall Street was, «Wow, you've done a great job managing your costs!»

Not only do companies want to draw from an educated pool of workers, they want to offer their employees a great place to raise a family.

Google churns out great products, but that's not the only thing the tech company is continually creating.