Sentences with phrase «turned failing businesses»

How Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney turned failing businesses into some of the largest companies in the world.

Not exact matches

They use their entire pile of seed money on a great website but then have no way of marketing it, and they turn into a statistic, joining the 80 percent of businesses that fail within their first 18 months.

How a Young CEO Turned His Family's Failing, Third - Generation Business Into the No. 2 Egg Brand in America

Here's how they took failing businesses and turned them into huge successes:

If they're done poorly, your business can fail — and that new location may turn out to have just as many problems as your current one.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

[5:45] Intangible assets that business owners must leverage [11:50] Analyzing, measuring and replacing underperforming aspects [14:00] First impressions and first statements [17:40] The lifetime value of a customer [20:00] Incentivizing employees [20:45] Ingenuity to find new points of leverage [22:00] Jay's experience turning «Icy Hot» around [26:30] The power of one small shift [27:50] Three ways to grow a business exponentially [33:40] What stops people from optimization [40:00] The value you bring to a customer [43:00] Measuring, quantifying and improving your processes [48:10] Why most businesses fail [50:00] Building pillars that will support your business [57:00] Providing comfort for your customer can bring in more revenue

McKay contrasts the proud investigative journalism tradition that brought down the Standard Oil monopoly at the turn of the last century and the Nixon presidency in the 1970s with a form of business reporting that has been «notorious for failing to detect bubbles before they burst with calamitous consequences.»

In fact, abortion turns out to be pretty much what we should have expected in 1972: a nasty but legal business in which a handful of failed doctors offer the clinical murder of babies as an expensive form of contraception.

Right turn clyde is really struggling with the fact his process has failed and is sucking our country down the tubes still, reagan started it (by giving business no regulation Banks and environmental, funding business to leave to China) and the bushes finished it.

David Moyes is said to have forked out around # 2m for the Irish international and whilst the 24 year old failed to impress at Old Trafford this deal may still turn out to be a very good bit of business by the cash - strapped Goodison Park outfit.

The WWWF likely becomes just another failed territory after breaking away from the NWA... But Bruno gave them credibility and drawing power, resulting in financial success... A viability that, without him, there's a pretty decent chance that VKM doesn't buy his father's business, eventually turning it in to the global empire we know today

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

When we turn our children into good - grade machines and neglect the rest of their development, we set them up to fail in the business world.

The federal proceedings concern whether the administration doled out «pay - to - play» favors to big donors that dumped money into de Blasio's now - defunct «shadow government» nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign accounts.

The inquiry into the Democratic governor's upstate economic development programs turns in part on whether Mr. Percoco and his wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, failed to properly disclose income they received from companies that were doing business with the state.

The Oneida Indian Nation, which operates the Turning Stone casino in Oneida County, has attacked Wilmot's business record, saying he has a history of failed projects and not paying his taxes.

Noting that France is lagging in international rankings of scientific output and fails to turn science into business, the group says that investing in knowledge should be the top priority.

It hired the New York City consulting agency of Alvarez & Marsal, which specializes in turning around failing businesses, to get its fiscal house in order.

After our last Harvard Business Review article looking at the one type of leader who can turn around a failing school, we received emails from several Head Teachers saying,» I'm making the long - term changes you suggest, but I'm about to be fired!

Hundreds of business leaders, politicians, parents, students, educators, and advocates turned out for the first legislative hearing on Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to expand the number of charter school seats in school districts with the lowest MCAS scores as well as another proposal that would allow for a state takeover of failing schools.

Our previous two Harvard Business Review articles looked at the dos and don'ts of school improvement and the one type of leader who can turn around a failing school.

Some Democrats like Elizabeth Warren will probably grill her on the failed education experiment she has wrought in Michigan and on the overall corruption of her way of doing business — and hopefully extended questioning on whether or not she agrees with some Republicans who are already talking about turning the $ 15 billion Title I budget into a voucher program.

Dell has done its usual trick of teasing those who turned up to the the manufacturer's Business Event in San Francisco on Tuesday, with the promise that the company will launch a Windows 7 powered tablet later this year, but then failing to say much more than that.

To ignore it, or fail to take full advantage of its brand - building and book - selling power, is to turn your back on one of the most important small business marketing and book promotional tools available.

15 % of debt business's fail because they don't have the appropriate arrangement of products to facilitate the right program for each prospect, and they basically have to turn thousands of applicants away each year due to them not having a program for each person.

She never turned down an opportunity to retrieve a ball, catch a Frisbee or chase a squirrel up a tree, and she never failed to display unbridled enthusiasm whenever we came through the door, whether it was after a long business trip or a quick run to the store.

In personal or business relationships, if someone betrays your trust; gives misleading statements; makes prophesies that turn out to be incorrect; or fails to appreciate that you may have a valid point of view even if they feel it inferior to their own — then you are likely to lose trust in anything that they say..

If the world moves towards low - carbon energy, as it should — and the big integrated fossil fuel companies fail to adapt — then divesting from oil, gas and coal investments could turn out to be smart business, as well as a good, albeit symbolic, politics.

This is usually true, although occasionally someone is out to cherry - pick; I did an interview for Business Week where it turned out the writer was 100 % dedicated to doing a hatchet job, and one for WSJ where I think somebody was hoping to dig up dirt, but failed.

LG is planning to exit the Chinese smartphone market, as the company has failed to turn around its struggling business.

Despite modest pickup in some regions, that operating system, BlackBerry 10, failed to gain sufficient market share to turn the company's handset business profitable.

Resumes that hit the mark make it abundantly and immediately clear how the candidate drives down costs, builds profitability, turns around failing business operations, and / or positively impacts bottom line.

In business the expression «sunk is sunk» sums up a failing situation that can not be turned around no matter how many additional resources are thrown at it.

The number one obstacle faced by real estate people currently is... «reality» vs the pumped up visions of success within the business imagined by the vast majority of Realtors, being the 60 % to 80 % of licensed Realtors out there (take your pick re the actual numbers) who are only three years or less into the business, who are destined to fail... rising stars in their own minds who ultimately arch and are turned into falling meteorites.