CEOs are caught between penny - pinching customers demanding value for less money and employees
wanting more pay for less work.
Some people want family medical coverage, others
want more paid time off and others want discounts on care for their own pets.
Not exact matches
The company
wanted to take a
more data - driven approach to pricing, because it needed a better idea of what the market would
pay for equipment.
Facebook
wants more personal posts about friends and family, and therefore it is going to de-emphasize other types of posts — and by that, it mostly means the vast majority of what news organizations produce (including what Facebook
pays them to produce).
You'll find yourself
paying attention and listening
more, not to use their interests to your advantage but to give them the meaning and purpose they
wanted before you met them.
If you really
want to improve workers» lives, why not just
pay them
more?
Even if there is a price increase, I
want to be absolutely sure my clients are getting far
more value than they're
paying for with my solution.
What's
more, even though the European Commission ordered that the taxes be
paid to Ireland, the nation, for its part, doesn't seem to
want the taxes at all.
«I think it would be
more disturbing if we had [millions of people] behind bars and nobody
paid attention or
wanted to know what it was like,» she said.
«So, the customer decides how and when they
want to
pay, and they'll drive the transaction
more so than what we see today.»
He has suggested cutting the corporate tax rate from 33 percent to the E.U. average of 25 percent, for example, and
wants to loosen national labor laws so companies can have
more freedom to negotiate working hours and
pay.
For business leaders, increasingly this means balancing two very different perspectives: shareholders who expect executives to deliver better short - term financial performance and stakeholders who
want more attention
paid to the longer - term human and environmental consequences of business.
But if you're discouraged because you're less of a swashbuckling Richard Branson type and
more the kind to tread carefully, you might
want to
pay attention to some recent research out of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
While investors will have to find stocks with higher yields,
pay more for them and take on
more risk in bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that people will need to set aside
more of every paycheque if they
want to keep the same goal for retirement income.
You can register for a short - term international roaming plan with your service provider, but the
more affordable options usually don't come with that much usable data — you don't
want to find yourself
paying a fortune per megabyte after you absentmindedly check Facebook one time.
And if he
wants to keep all of his
pay, Valeant stock will have to rise 460 % from its current level in just a little
more than three years.
«I know this is a personal thing, but it feels
more intentional, to go into a place and pull out a $ 5 bill,
pay for what you
want and have an exchange with the barista,» says Trey Wrage, a manager at Ninth Street Espresso.
Although the money was
more than I
wanted to
pay, the lease was a much bigger problem.
Even if you
want to check
more often, it's rare that you'll need to
pay for a copy of your report.
That said, I do think in a situation like this, there is a lot of money to be made for a business in Clearpath's position — if Uber really
wants that trademark, it might be willing to
pay for it, and that amount of money might end up meaning
more to a smaller company than its existing brand.»
We
want the hardware to do its job and get out of the way — we're tired of celebrating the box and now we're
paying far
more attention to the beef.
Thompson has talked a lot about engaging younger customers through mobile and other technology, but if you don't give them something that
more closely aligns with what they
want to order, it doesn't matter if they're buying it on their iPhone or iPad or using Apple
Pay.
We buy things because we think they are worth
more to us than we are
paying for them and -
more importantly - when we are convinced that they deliver something we don't now have, but definitely
want.
But that doesn't mean most business leaders can't learn something valuable from the core finding of the Facebook research project, which is, «If you
want to keep your people — especially your stars — it's time to
pay more attention to how you design their work.»
Was part of the reason why you
wanted this job to travel
more or less, take advantage of benefits like
paid graduate school, or even to try a new hobby?
But, of course, those perks
pay off for businesses too — what company wouldn't
want healthier, better educated, and
more financially stable employees?
So if you
want to recall
more of what you read, continually
pay attention to a book's overarching theme or idea (or the major theme of a chapter or section).
For example, if you don't
want them to work for a competitor for a year, you need to be willing to
pay them a severance that lasts that same period (we'll talk
more about severance in a minute).
One is the risk that it might be forced to
pay more attention to issues like free speech and censorship and journalistic integrity than it really
wants to, which would be a huge hassle.
If you
want coaching or help and
want more access to your new, valuable contacts,
paying for their time will help you immensely.
Viacom (VIAB)
wants the satellite company to
pay more for the right to carry its channels, and Dish is balking at the price.
«If you truly
want to go to the store and buy it, you're going to
pay more.
If you
want to be a better leader, get
paid more or grow your business, then you need to build your personal brand.
That product unveiling you think is so thrilling is just
more spam to the reporters you
want to
pay attention.
If you set the precedent early that you're willing to do
more than what they're
paying for (because you
want to please them, after all), they'll continue to push that.
Pay attention to signals like «I wish I could do X» or «Next we
want to try Y»; these are insights into what your customer needs
more of to achieve the desired result.
For example, you might
want to add
more to your retirement plan,
pay down some debt, or make an extra payment on your mortgage.
No one
wants to
pay a higher price and get nothing
more.
The follow - up, however, asks if they'd
want that if it meant
paying more or if it meant that some Canadian - made shows — and therefore jobs — would be lost in the process:
My dad didn't
want to
pay for disappearing photos any
more.
That's
more of a challenge for faculties than students, because for MBAs to stay relevant and for people to continue to
want to
pay for it, faculties will have to make these degrees transferable and global.
However, if you
want more features, Amazon
wants you to
pay for them, but that's common with security cameras.
Today's top job candidates
want a lot
more than just must - haves like
paid vacation and healthcare plans without high co-pays.
If you
want your letter or package to arrive faster, you
pay more for it, so why shouldn't the same go on the Internet?
So, that has resulted in lots of choice for customers: the choice of
more content, the choice of not having to watch ads if they don't
want to, they can
pay extra or they can sign up for Netflix, or whatever.
Clearing an account involves little
more than logging into Fundbox and selecting the invoice you
want the platform to
pay.
«And look if you're
paying $ 1,000 for a new handset you're going to
want that to be on a good network so we're very confident that we'll get
more than our fair share of that activity when it comes through in the fourth quarter.»
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If you have what they
want, strategic buyers will generally
pay you
more than other types of buyers,» adds Cagnetta.
And if you
want to get your posts seen on Facebook, it's becoming
more and
more likely that you'll have to
pay for reach with Facebook Ads.