Sentences with phrase «people at our company who»

Yes, it was the first time Microsoft was making its own PCs, but the company has made its own gaming console, mice and keyboards in the past, so there were people at the company who knew a considerable amount about supply chains.

Not exact matches

«One never holds people necessarily responsible for their government, but one does have the ability to be very careful in what one does with the government itself,» said Smith, who became Microsoft's president in 2015, taking on a title that had not existed at the company since 2002, when Richard Belluzzo left.

Some companies get stuck on the number of people who stop by the booth, instead of looking at whether they are qualified buyers of your goods and services.

It's an important resource for entrepreneurs and a quick way for us to share what we're learning every day at 1871 from the hundreds of companies and thousands of people who are going through the very same (and sometimes scary) process of starting and building businesses.

This is a simple solution for weeding out people who may not care about your company's mission, says Chelsea Willness, an associate professor who specializes in organizational behaviour at the University of Saskatchewan.

At my company, we're firm believers that the person who's been here the longest doesn't necessarily have the best idea.

If you look at the company and say «I want us to be a great place to be,» than you need to eliminate the slackers, the laggards and the people who are just putting in his or her time.

«One of the biggest attractions of Invoke was that [people] could wind up getting hired in an agency and being employee number four or five at Hootsuite,» says Tedman, who is no longer involved in the company's day - to - day operations.

His company is working on a device that collects blood samples from people at home who attach the collection vessel to their skin with an adhesive so it can draw a clean sample.

«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,» says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of technology firms.

Great companies understand people are free agents, who can leave at any time.

To counter that, at each roundtable the company set up smaller units of customers and people from Specialized who took notes.

Now, it appears Lyft is preparing to expand into Canada, according to The Information, which based its report on three unnamed people who have been involved with or briefed about the discussions at the company.

Gelman and Kassan connected with people at the company through their advisor, Julie Rice, who cofounded SoulCycle.

I started yelling at the contestant, because I felt this person didn't need us and was taking away an opportunity from some struggling mother who mortgaged everything after working on her company for eight years.

«I often see people at the top who are burnt out, and then the VPs become burnt out, and then the whole company is sick.»

Matt Mihaly, 44, CEO of an independent gaming company who runs the website Burn.Life, recommends people bring at least 1.5 gallons of water per day to be safe.

There are more smart people in the world who do not work at your company than the total number of smart people who work at your company.

The only significant source of turnover at the company is employees becoming romantically involved with people who refuse to move there.

At Clarus, they often interview 20 to 30 candidates for a single position because they understand the need to have people who fit into the culture and support the company's commitment to excellence.

Occasionally the company hires people who aren't ready to settle into steady work; other times it has hired too many former felons at once.

Look for people who have had a good amount of big company experience, at least five to ten years.

In the post, he argues that there is «a subtle advantage that people who've worked at transformative tech companies have over people who haven't.

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

We have identified several different job titles of the people who make up the buying committee at our customers» companies.

«When we discussed it for the first time and he was explaining to me what he planned to do for the first time, I looked at him and said, You know, if you succeed in doing this people will introduce you as the guy who founded Eco and before that, a small company called Uber.»

While 365 takes aim at budget gourmets and cash - strapped «millennial moms», grocery experts said it also needs to appeal to people who buy from a range of other food sellers, from Kroger and Walmart to Amazon.com, restaurant delivery companies and meal kit providers such as Blue Apron.

«I don't think people who use this are seriously thinking about the implications of LinkedIn seeing and changing their email,» Richard Bejtlichs, the chief research officer at computer security company Mandiant, told The New York Times.

«It's not the people who are [just] going to be the best at their jobs, but the people who really care about everyone else, aren't competitive with other people inside the company — are really altruistic people,» he says «I'm half Jewish, so mensches.

The roughly 1,100 people who work at the locations were safe as of Monday, the company said.

«Even people buying the stock at this price think this is a great opportunity,» says Heather Beach, Siebel's director of sales operations, who started out as the company's office manager and loaded up on options largely in lieu of salary in the company's early days.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

Sure, we tend to look at entrepreneurs as company owners or founders, not the people who might work for them.

I speak with people all the time who ask me how I got in touch with someone at a movie studio or a management company.

Surely there are other people who might have felt differently about what it's like to work at Yelp — perhaps some longtime employees or alumni who had great experiences working at the company.

If you haven't done the best job in the past of diversifying your communications, content, featured experts, or even the people you have at all levels within your company, don't wait to get dinged for it by someone who is frustrated by it.

Even my current free hosting company, we have eight people who all work from home in the San Francisco Bay area and we all meetup every other week at a co-working space.

At least one full - time manager who qualifies under SBA definitions as a disadvantaged person must hold the position of president or CEO in the company.

«Well, I've always been fascinated with people who say companies can't have long - term plans because of the demand on quarterly earnings,» he said at the CECP's CEO Investor Forum in February.

«We are mildly successful in at least one city... but we want people who are going to make it their mission to [grow] this company.»

The resulting revolving - door culture has made it tempting for government lawyers, law firms, and corporations to take it easy on people who perpetrate boondoggles at major companies.

«There are plenty of diverse people in my network alone who have the aptitude and the competitive edge and innovative mentality necessary to be successful at a tech company.»

While working for Indrik, before it was bought by Kaspersky, Stoyanov shared information about Russian criminal hacking gangs with American companies, including at least three firms that had contracts to provide services to U.S. spy agencies, people who had worked for each of those three companies said.

«When the same people are controlling pay at a number of companies, that can cause a direct ratcheting up of pay,» says Eleanor Bloxham, who heads The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance, a board education and advisory firm, and is a regular contributor to Fortune.com.

As the article says, many more people will lose their jobs because of this protectionist garbage... why not re-employ the people who are displaced when Arrium goes under instead of three times as many at other companies?

At the end of the day, companies like Zappos or Apple know you need the right leadership, which is about people at all levels who see the vision, understand the business and are passionate about iAt the end of the day, companies like Zappos or Apple know you need the right leadership, which is about people at all levels who see the vision, understand the business and are passionate about iat all levels who see the vision, understand the business and are passionate about it.

«The ISO 9000 representative [should be] a person who encompasses a genuine and passionate commitment to quality and success, knowledge of processes and systems within the company, and power to influence employees at all levels,» wrote Karapetrovic, Rajamani, and Willborn.

Instead, as Survey Monkey's Elena Varna explains, digging into what a person is truly excellent at (with this wacky phrasing as one potential opener), is essential to hiring someone who can grow with your company.

«There are enough people working at legacy companies in Detroit who have read The Innovator's Dilemma.

The company found that almost 90 percent of people who are looking for a job plan to use their mobile device for at least some part of their search.