10. Apple
9. Trader Joe’s
8. REI
7. Slalom Consulting
6. CareerBuilder
5. Google
4. MITRE
3. Facebook
2. McKinsey & Company
1. Bain & Company
Photo Credit: Matt Yohe
R.I.P. Steve Jobs
10. Anything is possible through hard work, determination, and a sense of vision
9. Stay hungry, stay foolish
8. Find the most talented people to surround yourself with
7. Don’t care about being right. Care about succeeding
6. Expect a lot from yourself and others
5. Listen to that voice in the back of your head that tells you if you’re on the right track or not
4. You can’t connect the dots forward – only backward
3. Never fear failure
2. To create the future, you can’t do it through focus groups
1. The most enduring innovations marry art and science
Ayn Rand, Photo Credit: Talbot from www.aynrand.org
10. Eleanor Roosevelt
9. Ayn Rand
8. Dorothy Hodgkin
7. Simone de Beauvoir
6. Emmeline Pankhurst
5. Rachel Carson
4. Rosa Parks
3. Indira Gandhi
2. Margaret Sanger
1. Marie Curie
1. Sales of Boxers, Briefs Leveling Off
2. Desserts Are in Again
3. Less Sorrowful Searching
4. The Venti Latte Makes a Comeback
5. Box Rebound Reflects Rising Demand
6. Fewer Urban Dwellers Are Hoofing It
7. Duffers Returning to the Greens
8. Faces, Other Parts Getting a Lift
9. Gamblers More Willing to Play Their Hand
10. More Couples Are Calling It Quits
Job seekers may want to search through their résumés and cover letters and reconsider using any instances of these words:
1. Extensive experience
2. Innovative
3. Motivated
4. Results-oriented
5. Dynamic
6. Proven track record
7. Team player
8. Fast-paced
9. Problem solver
10. Entrepreneurial
1. Horticulturalist
2. Actuary
3. Technical Writer
4. Undertaker
5. Heating ventilating air conditioning mechanic (HVAC)
6. Software analyst
7. Trucker
8. Zookeeper
9. Carpenter
10. Independent consultant (of any kind)
According to LiveCareer
1- Vito Corleone
2- Tony Soprano
3- Tony Montana
4- Al Capone
5- Keyser Söze
6- Cody Jarrett
7- Marsellus Wallace
8- Tommy DeVito
9- Nino Brown
10- Max Bercovicz
- Fresno
- Las Vegas
- Phoenix
- Mesa
- El Paso
- Arlington
- San Francisco
- Jacksonville
- Miami
-Minneapolis
According to Ricky Van Veen, CEO of College Humor thee are 10 Web Content Urban Legends. They are:
Myth #1). People will want to watch your branded content
Myth #2). People will be patient with your content
Myth #3). People will find your content
Myth #4). The Internet is a level playing field
Myth #5). We have no idea why things go viral
Myth # 6). Experience beats documentation
Myth #7). You should build your own community and tools
Myth #8). Keep things professional
Myth #9). Traditional media is irrelevant to the web
Myth #10). People will create good content for you
These businesses started down one path, but changed direction just in time to become trailblazers in their category.
1- Ben & Jerry’s
After considering pizza, shish kebab, and fondue, the pair had what they thought to be a “Eureka!” moment — Bagels.
Click HERE to find out why they switched to ice cream.
2- Taco Bell
Glen Bell started with a fast-food window that sold hamburgers and hot dogs, but only added tacos to compete against the McDonald brothers.
Keep reading to find out how tacos became the main item on Bell’s menu.
3- Hasbro
This brand is world-renowned for a bevy of cherished toys, but in the beginning, Hasbro was in the business of textile remnants.
Find out how the Hassenfeld Brothers went from peddling leftover cloth to becoming the world’s largest toy maker with the help of some pieces of plastic and a potato.
4- Raytheon
At first this small band of inventors busied themselves trying to build refrigerators.
Look at how they went from refrigerators and radios to the sophisticated weaponry, Here
5- Wrigley’s
The famed gum and candy confectioner didn’t start out as a purveyor of sweets, but a pusher of scouring soap.
Read why the gum briefly disappeared from shop shelves, before making a comeback, Here.
6- Tim Hortons
Horton’s first foray into the restaurant business was with a string of hamburger joints near Toronto, Ontario.
7- Samsung
Businessman Byung-chull Lee opened a small trading company in Taegu, Korea, with a focus on trading fish, vegetables, and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing.
Lee’s company enjoyed moderate growth before the Communist invasion in 1950 forced him to start all over. Read how Lee came back with an astounding second act.
8- Nokia
Before it became a telecom powerhouse, Nokia started, however, with paper — and a wood pulp mill on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids in southern Finland.
Click Here to read more on the back-from-the-brink move that helped transform Nokia.
9- Toyota
Read how Toyota took a detour to make fish paste and chinaware before forever changing the car industry, Here.
10- IBM
The seeds for the creation of what would grow to become one of the most successful, influential, and admired companies of the 20th century can be found in the merger of three businesses that fell under the original umbrella called International Business Machines (IBM.N)
Read more about IBM’s early years in the calculations business, and the company’s still little-known connections to Hitler’s Germany, Here.
Click Here to find out how the doughnut chain expanded its orbit.
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