“We are delighted that these regulations are now law, and we commend the provincial government for helping put the issue on the front burner. These requirements will push more companies to have the conversations they should be having around board and executive committee diversity and, hopefully, their talent development. Businesses need to tap the full pool of smart, talented people to stay competitive and strengthen our country’s economic future.” PeopleNeedsShouldCountryHelpingGovernmentLawCompanyIssuesEconomicTalentFrontsDevelopmentConversationDiversitySmartOur CountryHopefullyBoardsExecutivesPoolRegulationCommitteesRequirementsDelighted Author:Alex Johnston
“Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.” NeedsMomentsJobsArtistCompanyRecordsFourAliveFiguresDevelopmentCamerasPhonesSupremeTemptationBridgesGapsRecord Companies Author:Laurieann Gibson
“Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.” PeopleIfsI CanHelpingIndividualGrowsCompanyGrowingDevelopmentLeadership DevelopmentHelping People Author:James McNerney
“The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.” MatterHelpingUseTodayProcessLinesCompanyEnvironmentDevelopmentResearchConcernImpactEnvironmentalBottomBottom LineEcologicalResearch And DevelopmentEnvironmental Impact Author:Daniel Goleman
“Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.” InterestCompanyDevelopmentAlliesPersonal Interest Author:Wang Jianlin
“Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.” MenStillsSoulCompanyDevelopmentIdealsSticksOneselfNobleGenerousDevotedInwardFixers Author:African Spir
“... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.” WayMeanRealCountryActionViewsCompanyGroupsEffectsDevelopmentMembersInvestingInternationalOilIncomeNegotiationAugustMonetaryBarrelsAdverseAdoptingOil CompaniesAdverse Effects Author:Richard M. Nixon
“The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.” CompanyTalentDevelopment Author:Margaret Heffernan
“Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.” IfsArtStatesNamesCompanyImagineMonthsDevelopmentComputerApplesCopiesSoftwareRestraintCopyingSoftware Development Author:Bill Gates
“The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?” ThinkingSaidFactsUsedAsksRoomsBusinessCompanyCarExampleProductsDevelopmentResearchCustomersHeySatCategoriesConferencesAnticipateThink Of YouLabsGood ExamplesResearch And DevelopmentHeadquartersUsed Car Author:Meg Whitman
“As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development.” ChildrenBeautifulNaturalSpaceCompanyDevelopmentPressesWestAccessCampsPipeTempestColoradoBeautiful PlacesUtahIdahoOpen SpacesWyomingNevada Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“It's a completely independent atelier and company. We develop the prototypes here. There's a pattern maker, a sample maker, a commercial team, a head of sales, an in-house production team. That's the price of independence. And in the studio I work closely with Sarah-Linh on the collection, and Nao takes care of development.” CareHouseCompanyTeamDevelopmentIndependentIndependencePatternsProductionsStudiosTake CareCollectionsMakersSamplePrototype Author:Christophe Lemaitre
“In the economy we guarantee all market players the same conditions, and the private sector plays an increasingly important role. We are in the process of dissolving thousands of state-owned companies and converting them into stock corporations. We even plan to accelerate this development. In contrast, it is the party's responsibility to improve the lives of the people, and this is where our citizens have great confidence in us. Party members who commit crimes are severely punished.” PeopleImportantStatesPlayProcessPartyResponsibilityCompanyRolesEconomyPlayerPlansConditionsCrimeDevelopmentCitizensMembersCommitCorporationsGuaranteesContrastPrivate SectorConvertingAccelerateDissolvingGreat Confidence Author:Nguyen Minh Triet
“I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out samples and sets. I worked at Clinique in the creative department for a summer during high school. And when I graduated from university, I worked at Prescriptives. My uncle [Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies] smartly had wanted me to go into a small brand - to figure out what part of the company I loved. I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.” WorldChildrenWantedSchoolProcessCompanyCreativeFiguresProductsDevelopmentSummerCreatingHigh SchoolConceptsUniversityPassionateMagazinesBrandsDepartmentCreative ProcessUnclesFragranceChairmanLipstickSampleProduct Development Author:Aerin Lauder
“We are highly committed to international cooperation, development of public-private partnerships. To use the potential of large companies that have already been through the steps that we are taking now would be beneficial for the development of the country's healthcare system” CountryUseWould BeCompanyStepsDevelopmentInternationalCommittedCooperationHealthcarePartnershipBeneficialLarge CompaniesInternational Cooperation Author:Veronika Skvortsova
“Me and my family growing up, we cleared our land built our homes and all that. So, I was very well knowledgeable in the construction world. That turned into a commercial development company and construction company.” WorldWellsHomeCompanyGrowing UpGrowingLandDevelopmentBuiltMy FamilyConstructionKnowledgeableFamily Growing UpConstruction Company Author:Drew Waters
“...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.” WayShouldCountryGovernmentCompanyRolesEconomyEnvironmentEconomicDevelopmentEntrepreneurEconomic Development Author:John Naisbitt
“We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business.” IdeasCompanySuccessfulProductsDevelopmentMethodMarketingExperimentsEmphasisSuccessful BusinessNew ProductsNew Company Author:Richard Branson
“We've been spending this kind of ramp up time from the time we started the company to now with a lot of different projects in development. What we aren't doing is saying, "We have to do this, this and this." Because the "this, this and this" might not be ready and you don't want to go and make something that's not ready.” WantKindDifferentMightCompanyReadyDevelopmentProjectsSpendingNot ReadyRamp Author:Susan Downey