“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.” YearsKidsActorsCompanyWeekNeededMetsMembersTheaterTowns Author:Trevor Nunn
“There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.” NeedsHelpingTodayStrongCompanyEnvironmentProgressRiskNeededComplexesPartnersManageBrandsInnovativeMultiplying Author:Mike McGavick
“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.” FirstsSchoolActorsCompanyNeededTheaterExpandingNew Company Author:Charles Kimbrough
“In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.” IfsWorldHas BeensStillsIdeasAgeOrderDifferencesCompanyModernGeniusNeededRiversInventionFallenGrayBellsSolitaryTelephonesModern AgeGraham Bell Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"” IdeasWould BeAsksOpportunityBornHalfCompanyBabyFoolNeededPromiseFoolishMake SenseFulfillmentDamnExecutivesInnovativeImmature Author:Peter Drucker
“There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.” PeopleWantNeedsLongDoeTurnsProcessCompanyNeededConcernSpeedExpensiveHousing Author:George Deukmejian
“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or we are tainted by the failures of our fathers to fulfill our national credos when their courage was most needed. We are formed in molds twisted by the gifts we received at the expense of others. It is not our “fault.” But it is undeniably our inheritance.” PastFatherIndividualWhiteCompanyCrimeNeededConnectionsFaultsInjuryExpensesLayersInheritanceTwistedOur FatherMoldTaintedCredo Book:Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Source: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
“Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.” MadeGovernmentDifficultDecisionDealsCompanyProductsNeededFindingsPerceptionSellsImpressionSoftwareHardwareDisclosureSnowdenEncryption Author:Michael Morell
“Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.” NeedsTodayRememberCompanyNeededEngineersSitePsychiatrist Author:Philip Greenspun