Sentences with phrase «running the big companies»

If you want to run a big company, there are two ways.

Running a big company as if it were a small one, as we do at Virgin, comes with tremendous advantages.

«There has always been lots of books out there on how to run a big company,» says McFarland, who now runs his own consulting business, McFarland Partners based in Salt Lake City.

He needed consultants who had the maturity and seriousness to win the confidence of experienced executives running big companies.

Not many people in my network have time to write just on Linkedin, since most of them run big companies, but there are always the content SEO spammers.

«All the stress from running a big company I didn't need anymore.»

The big CEOs running the big companies, with billions of dollars changing hands and...

The big CEOs running the big companies, with billions of dollars changing hands and thousands of employees doing their bidding.

Not exact matches

But in the short run, Belt and Road is creating opportunities for Chinese companies and big multinationals alike — ones that their shareholders can't ignore.

That way, he is guiding her, but he isn't trying to run the company through her, and that makes a big difference.

If you run a small business with a big potential, how can you hire the best people to join your team when you don't have the deep pockets or ridiculous perks a big company can offer?

Since you've already walked through financial & operating metrics the board meeting ought to be the time to run through 2 - 3 big strategic issues the company faces.

Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

Whether you're running your company out of your dorm room or Skyping your partners in four different time zones, here are a few tricks to help the little guys compete against the big fish.

Oftentimes, bigger companies will engage third - party RFP process - management companies to run the process for them.

What business books have had the biggest impact on how you think about running a company?

In November, Scaramucci, then running the hedge fund company he founded, SkyBridge Capital, appeared on knowledge forum Big Think where he espoused his best advice on the subject.

With all the stresses and commitments involved in running a company, do you ever feel you don't have enough time to do the big - picture thinking your business needs to thrive?

I am just one person running one small shop and it's tough to stay afloat when you're competing against big companies, especially when the have super sales.

«Even if Uber can get 10 percent of that market, in the long run that still gives them a revenue of $ 200 billion [a year], which will make them one of the biggest companies in the world,» says Sundararajan, who didn't divine when he thought this might happen.

It's a big part of Berkshire that stands to get only bigger, Buffett said in May at the company's annual shareholder meeting, adding that it's «hard to imagine a better - run operation.»

But smaller companies like InsightSquared, competitor Microstrategy, and others are planning an end - run around the big players.

Is it easier to run a small company than a big one?

Small company people can't run big, because they can't let go.

They built this amazing company and were so successful where they created a category that Silicon Valley's biggest, baddest and most well - financed and smartly run companies want to get into and dominate.

Anyone at a big car company or running a dealership or making car loans will tell you that a US market above 16 million in annual sales is a very good market.

In addition to providing a big sales boost to Amazon, AWS also ingests tech profits into a company that's traditionally run on very slim margins.

As Yuval Bashar, LinkedIn principal engineer and president of Open19 told Fortune, the Open Compute Foundation may be great for the biggest of the big web companies like Google but is less applicable for the many smaller businesses that still run their own data centers.

23andMe is a seven - year - old company run by Anne Wojcicki, a biotech entrepreneur who is married to Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin, who is, in turn, a big investor in 23andMe.

It does includes a wide circle of wealthy Russians though that run some of the country's biggest companies, including the heads of Russia's two biggest banks Sberbank and VTB, metals magnates and the boss of state gas monopoly Gazprom.

He may have to focus on the short term for now, as the company has three big executive spots unfilled: Chesky himself is still running the homes business.

The way that the company is run is by understanding the importance of the individual: You clearly can run a business just focusing on delivering a task or you can run a business while you focus on delivering a purpose, and the purpose being a little bit bigger than the task.

Some pundits and companies have found the cost prohibitive for firms operating on a smaller scale than behemoth Google, but at least one tech company is willing to take the idea and run with it — big time.

After the last champagne bottle is drained, the new Bentley is in the garage and you're back from the Bora Bora vacation, you start to realize there's a big difference between running a company worth $ 30 million and managing $ 30 million in disposable cash.

Known as operational or structural separation, such a setup usually involves big telecom companies carving off into a separate organization the parts of their respective companies that are devoted to running networks.

It had a great run, he says, despite the fact that its biggest shareholder, New York — based hedge fund Jana Partners, wants to break up the company.

He runs Emerson Electric, a $ 15 billion manufacturing and technology enterprise ranked 139 on the Fortune 500 list of America's biggest companies.

He cites a running joke he had with Marc Andreessen: «I think Silicon Valley could be 10 to 20 times bigger if 80 percent of the companies were led better.»

Nintendo shares have seen big gains this year as the company has more broadly expanded into the mobile market, with titles like «Pokemon Go» and the upcoming «Super Mario Run.»

With approval rating in the low teens just five months into her second term, Rousseff's also struggling to win back the public trust amid Brazil's biggest corruption investigation, an inquiry into a massive kickback scheme at state - run oil company Petrobras.

Now, unsurprisingly, EMC's (EMC) Information Infrastructure group (EMC II for short) will focus on helping Virtustream sell into big companies running mission - critical applications, according to an internal memo from EMC II Chief Executive David Goulden viewed by Fortune.

Meanwhile, Microsoft (msft) claimed big gains in its cloud business, with CEO Satya Nadella boasting to analysts that the company has an annualized revenue run rate of $ 20.4 billion that is extrapolated from one recent month's sales multiplied by 12.

Indeed, adds Brady Forrest, who runs a startup accelerator in San Francisco, «There is a big difference between being a product and being a company.»

This is not the first time a big Internet company has co-opted Android: Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablets run a version of Android that strips out all Google services, replacing them with Amazon's equivalents.

Plus, with expectations for Valeant as low as they are, the next CEO doesn't really have to worry about big shoes to fill, Ackman suggested: «You don't want to be CEO after Jack Welch has been running the company,» he said, referring to the legendary CEO of General Electric (ge).

«And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.

It adds layers of obligations, regulations, costs, and pressures to the already challenging daily grind of running a business, not to mention hundreds of hours of planning, meetings with bankers and lawyers, and travel in preparation for the biggest event in the company's history.

The biggest risk for most business owners is that they'll be so busy running their companies they'll take their eye off the road — and end up in a head - on financial collision before they ever knew what hit them.

The Facebook founder told senators the company's delay in identifying Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election is «one of [his] biggest regrets in running the company.»

«One of the biggest flaws with the UK set up is that it is based on self - reporting and Companies House (which runs the UK Corporate register) has limited resources to go after people who fail to provide information or provide incorrect information,» he said.