Dave Thomas (Wendys)

Dave Thomas came from poverty. He is the creater of wendys resturant chains.  He was born in Alantic city and his parents werent married when they had him and it was the middle of the depression. when he was 5 his adoptive mother died and his father was extremely strict. Daves dad had 3 more wives after the adoptive wife that died.His father wasnt a loving man but he did what he needed to for Dave. his father started to help working on the atomic bomb in Oak Ridge. He got a job at Regus which was  a family owned resturants. He worked when he was 12 and did the night shift and went to school still. Dave wanted to show his dad he could do this and make money. He said when he was young that he would have a chain of resturants.
He quit high school at 15 and moved out to the local YMCA and became a bus boy at the local resturant. Phil Clauss was the owner of the resturant and was amazed that Dave wanted to work hard and was enjoying it unlike other young guys who just wanted to work get paid and leave. 1950 Dave joined the army and went to Germany on the occupation tour and he became a cook there but had some bad experiences with baking. In 1953 he returned to Fort Wayne Idiana and met a waiter where he worked. Dave and Lorraine were married a year later.In 1954 Dave was a vetern in the resturant business at age 22. In 6 years him and lorraine had 4 children. Soon Dave met Harland Sanders also known as Colnel Sanders and was selling his recipe for chicken but those that bought it had to pay 5 cent royalties for each piece of chicken that they sold. Dave and Colnel became good friends.Dave eventually went out and started selling the  the Kentucky fried chicken products and going around to these stores that had been set up and was the regional manager. He only knew work and didnt have time to play or enjoy family time.He sold his own Kentucky fried chicken stores back to the company and then became a millionaire. By the 1960's he was a successful millionaire but he didnt want to retire then . He had a deep love for Hamburgers.He named his company after his daughter Wendy and the logo is from his daughter too. The first Wendys was opened in Colombus Ohio.He didnt have much time for family and things like that his life was pretty much all work.In the first 6 years there were 100 Wendys then the next year there were 500.They were opening more stores then McDonalds and they were adding new things all the time.Wheres the beef was the kinda Wendys statement that put them on the map for advertising . This slogan was even used in the presidential election of 74.In the late 80's Dave started to settle down and do things he wanted to do instead of overworking.They really worked on the quality of the burgers .

Ray Kroc McDonalds

Ray Kroc was the ultimate competitor and he said about his competitors if they were drowning i would put a hose in their mouth. Ray Kroc was born in chicago in 1902. In 1905 they moved to oakpark a suburb of chicago. His mother was very enthusiastic about cleaning and as a child Ray helped his mother and seemed more ambitious then other kids. His first business was a lemonade stand he also worked at a grocery store and working at his uncles store using the soda machine. He didnt studie much he was more into making new businesses and any idea he had he had a way to make it come true. He felt school wasnt going to make him rich and he was looking for a way to get out and WWI was the way he did that he was to young to go fight but he became a red cross ambulance driver and before he could finish his training the war ended. He met Ethal Fleming when he was working at a resort on Paw Paw lake. 3 years later he wanted to marry Ethal but his dad said no not unless he had steady employment which within a few days he was selling Lily cups. He was very well dressed and groomed and sold cups to street vendors and at Rigly Stadium and then he went to the Soda fountain and sold them cups which was the best idea and showed them how the cups could be sold and they could sell drinks to go. He sold cups for 16 years and his first daughter was born in 1924. He became the multi mixers exclusive salesman in 1939. And was making about 25,000 a year which was good money.In 1954  he went to California and met Dick and Mac McDonald and they had a resturant which was called McDonalds and required 4 of the multi mixers at a time. It was originally a drive in resturant. They closed the drive in and looked to reinvent  the resturant and they made their kitchen work like a ford assembliy factory and they only had 9 items on their menu and created new things like bigger grills and condiment dispensers. They turned the service time down from 20 mins to 30 seconds.Kroc was 52 when he signed a contract with them that allowed him to use the McDonalds way but when he went home he had to buy out another company which put him severly in debt.In 1959 he opened his first McDonalds.He sold 18 franchises in the first year but was barely making back his money. A secondary business he started was where he would buy the land that McDonalds would be built on and he rented it out and it was critical that he rented these properties where he would ethier get a percent of the profits . He fell in love with another women named Joan and divorced his wife and tryed to get Joan but she wouldnt leave her husband but she wouldnt. A year later he met a women named Jane and married her two weeks later.They scouted locations by flying above the the communities and seeing churches and putting McDonalds near them and they made a manual for the resturants that everyone had to follow. He was very strict about these rules.In 1961 they opened a training station and it was called Hamburger university which taught people how to do everything. Ray started clashing with Dick and Mac and said  i want the company for myself and asked them how much it was gonna cost they said a million each and enough to pay their taxes which ended in being 2.7 million dollars in cash.Kroc didnt buy the brother resturant in the deal which made him angry and then he took them right out of business by building a McDonalds one block away . In 1971 he started selling the fillet o fish then other people started making things like the Big Mac and the Egg McMuffin. They needed someone to attract kids so they made Donald McDonald which was later changed to Ronald McDonald which was a big thing with kids in Washington DC so they spread him around America.McDonalds became the first fast food resturant on the Stock Market.He tryed to get Joan again and on March 8 1986 they got married after divorcing they're spouces.

Trends

Trends in 2011 top 20
projected billboards/ publicity
interactive retail
charitable deviance/shock vertising
wearable tech
brand reversion
on the spot style
real timing
modern cubism
next besting(update)
tangible printing
hyper realisim
toddler touchscreens
democratic selling
rockstar self expressionism
modern kidvertising
luxury lives on
geriatric couture
perpetual adaptation
tweetonomics
discret consumerism

New idea and games for gaming

Iphone App Turns To Do List Into Game

This game called Epic Win was created in the UK and is used
to make your to do list into a game by inserting your goals for the day
so take out the recycling and then the game gives you points once you have completed that task
So going through a day if chores levels your character up and they learn new skills and things like that and as you add more chores your map will get larger and you can share you status on facebook and twitter

Giant Screen Games

 These are interactive games that can be used in stadium situations to entertain the crowd during half time or in between periods. Games can include things like getting the crowd to clap to We Will Rock you and then giving them a score.This game is called Uplause

Ninetendo DS Game Treasure World

This game for the nintendo Ds uses wifi and sends children on a treasure hunt its is a game that

requires children to go to WiFi hot spots and then collect things to keep their in game character

moving along and for each hot spot they go to they earn points and unlock prizes for their character

This was created to help lower down child obesity in North America

Good to Great

Level 5 Leadership
Greatness is not a function of circumstance greatness
it turns out is largely a matter of conscious choice

level five leader is humble and fearless...
personal will and personal humilty dont settle for nothing but the best and are humble people
get the right people on the bus in the right seats and the wrong people off the bus

Confront the Brutal Facts
(yet never lose faith)
You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first
confronting the brutal facts

The Stockdale Paradox
Retain Faith that you will prevail in the end regardless of the difficulties
And at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your reality whatever they may be

Dont set dates on things because if they dont happen you get discouraged
when Stockdale was in the Hinoi Hilton prison camp he said the optimists died because
they got discouraged because of saying "we will be out by next christmas" never happened
so this brought them down. So confront the brutal facts and always keep faith and think that
you will get out of your problem and never run away from them confront them head on.

The Hedgehog Concept

What are you the best at in the world
What drives your economic engine
What are you deeply passionate about
Know thyself
A hedge hog conecpt is not a goal to be the best
It is an understanding of what you can be the best at

Know one big thing and stick to it

Which is more important
the goal to be the best at something or realistic understanding
of what you can and cannot be the best at

Can each group and each person have a hedgehog concept?

My Hedge hog concept is...

Be the best fighter in the world
I am passionate about fighting and love it
the rewards and the feel of fighting drive me towards my goal
knowing that i can get rewards for something i love and enjoy.
that is my hedgehog concept.

A  Culture of Discipline

You focus on what you've accomplished relative to exactly what you said you were going to accomplish
- no matter how tough the measure
Should we have a stop doing list ?What should be on the list?

Martha Stewart

Father really pushed her as a child had to make her own clothes. She worked as a model for a little while before she went to the university of columbia then dropped out and got married became a stock broker and learnt how to create a good buisness from clients. She opened her first buisness which was catering weddings.  She has created a giant buisness that grossed over 1.7 billion dollars and had signed a 500 million dollar deal with K-Mart to sell her products.

Key Learning is don't overlook humble beginnings and if your family pushes you to succeed chances are you will succeed and do well for yourself.Try and get a good education and do the things you love otherwise why do them at all if your not going to enjoy it.

Teen Entrepreneur

Brian Wong is a 19 year old Vancouver resident that thinks the future of mobile advertisement isnt on billboards or banners  but in mobile video games.

His company Kiip has secured buisnesses such as Dr Pepper and Sony to name a few to give away prizes
who beat hard levels on video games or get the high score.

Last year he went to San Francisco for a job interview with the website Digg. He was laid off 4 months after getting the job (this was his largest failure to him so far)

This year Kiip has secured 4 million US from investment funding.

Bill Gates Summary

Bill was raised in Seattle and had wealthy parents and was educated very well. He had a good bond with his mother but became more independent as time carried on he was eventually sent to private school where he had access to his first computer and spent many hours on it.He met Paul Allen there and the two became good friends and wrote computer code together they had their ups and downs but were always good to each  other.Bill started his first buisness at 15 with Paul and made $20,000 . He got into Harvard after graduating in 1973 and used their computer labs as much as possible eventually Paul came to see Bill and they went to write code for Altair Personal computers and soon after Bill dropped out of Harvard and started Microsoft.After having some troubles with Altair Bill's mother introduced him to the owner of IBM who wanted microsoft to create a operating system for them which they did but licensed it to IBM so they would have to pay per copy sold with it.Paul was diagnosed with cancer and couldnt help as much with the company so Bill took charge and in 1986 they produced microsoft windows. In 1990 microsoft produced windows 3.0 and didnt have sell only to IBM they could also sell to any other personal computer company because of the smart licensing they did. But unfortunatley in 1994 they had to change the way they sold their products because it wasn;t legal according to the justice system . Also in 1994 he got married and then his mother died from breast cancer which was devastating to Bill.He was the richest man in the world in 1994 and today he is second richest. In 1995 microsoft released windows 95 . Bill has since then released many other types of windows operating systems and has donated millions of dollars to help kids get access to computers and good education.

Sam Walton

He sold things cheaper then everyone, he never thought of anything except for building up wal mart at one point in time he had the largest fortune in amercia. His fathers job was to evict people from farms who couldnt pay thier bills. Sam Walton was born in 1918.After the first world war his father took the family to Massuri but things only got worse.After seeing his father job and what had happened to them he wanted to make sure he would never be poor. Sam started selling milk after football practice to help with his family.His parents always quarelled , he saved someone from drowning in a lake then became a golden eagle scout (he was in scouts) so he became very popular.In 1936 he entered a college and he started his first paper route which he turned into a small buisness. He started to work at J.C Penny and even got help from J.C Penny when he came to the store once.He tryed to join the army but wasn't able to because of a heart condition but was put on the reserve list.So well waiting to be called to war he got a job in a gun powder factory.He met his wife in the bowling alley then married her on valentines day.He went to war finally but then the war ended the next year he came back and began to start a plan for a buisness .

In 1945 he bought a small store and was confident that he could turn this bad buisness around and he found a way to sell goods for cheaper then other stores then he went out at night to get stock and then have it ready for the money.He thrived on beating the competition and was very good at.Within 3 years he payed off the loan he took from his father then hired his younger brother Bud as assistant manager.The owner of Sam's store wouldnt re-lease his building to Sam because he was jealous of him and wanted the building for his son but Sam didnt give up.

He went to Arkansaw and they moved into Bentinville then bought a store there and he made sure to get a 99 year lease and began to become popular in that town he was part of the towns council. Sam wanted to satisfy America's needs he heard about self service which then let customers could get their own things and then he would have to pay less for staff this was a grand success. In just over 10 years he acquired over 15 stores from arkansaw missori and kansas. He found a new procedure called discounting where he would just buy items straight from the manufacturers. Which once again allowed him to make more money.
He wanted to start his own franchise which then he had to go into debt very large but he knew this would work so he started his first store called Wal-Mart and he began stocking it with what ever he could find so from tools to clothing. It made a million dollars in sales the first year. In 1961 he bought ownership in the bank which then he could loan himself money at the bank. He expanded about 2 stores a year and then he had 18 stores within 6 years. He took his family on month long vacations usually camping to make up for the time he was gone. By 1970 he had 32 stores and his chain was still growing.He was still in debt for over 2 million dollars.He put the store on the stock market for public sale and had to compete against K-Mart.He would walk into competing stores and if he seen a lower price in their store he would call his store and tell them to lower it right now.He opened the profit sharing to all his employees. He had 195 stores by 1975 within a 160 mile radius and soon he was opening about 100 stores a year. In 1983 he was diagnosed with Lukimia and then he took an experimental drug and it worked. Hilliary Clinton worked in Wal-Mart with Sam and he had been friends with Bill Clinton.Unions were trying to unionize Wal-Mart but it was voted down and he also started a buy America campegin which once again boosted Wal-Marts popularity. He became the richest man in America but you would never know if you seen him at home when and then Black Monday came along and he lost 1 and a quarter billion dollars and said its only paper. The Waltons set up a scholarship fun where they sent 150 kids from communist countries to christian schools where they learnt about america and democracy.In 1991 Wal-Mart became the biggest retailer in america. Then in 1992 the president gave him the medal of freedom for his vision and Wal-Mart.He died 6 days after his 74th birthday.

The key idea is always to watch your competitors and to dream big no matter what and never let failure bring you down and make sure that your always humble . His mentors were his father and eventually Bill Clinton even the passion for him began when he seen what his father was doing for work and when he got a taste of buisness thats when the passion of buisness set in with him.

Market Research and Analysis

Industry
a collection of businesses with a common line of products or services

Carrying Capacity
the ability of industry to support new growth

Uncertaninty
is the degree of stability or instability in an industry

Complexity
the number and diversity of contacts with which a buisness must deal

Stage of life cycle
1 birth
2 growth
3 maturatity
4 decline
Market
A group of people or companies who have a demand for a product or service and are willing and able to buy it

Target Market
a specific group of customers who a business wishes to reach

Market Segmentation
the process of grouping a market into smaller subgroups defined by specific characteristics

Market Segments
subgroups of buyers with similar characteristics segmented by geographics demographics psychographics and buying characteristics

Geographics
the study of market based on where customers live including region state country city and or area

Psychographics
the study of consumers based on social and psychological characteristics including personality values opinions beliefs motivations attitudes and lifestyle elements

Industrial Markets
customers who buy goods or services for business use

Target Market
1 measureable
2 large enough to be profitable
3 reachable
4 responsive

Market Research
the collection and analysis of information aimed at understanding the behavior of consumers in a certain market

Exploratory Research
The initial collect and analysis of information used when very little is known about a subject ; it forms a foundation for later research

Focus Group
a group of people whose opinions are studied to determine the opinions that can be expected from a larger population

Descriptive Research
the collection of information to determine the status of something such as in developing a customer profile

Historical Research
the study of the past to explain present circumstances and predict future trends

Secondary data
information that has already been collected by someone else
ex.govermant data

Primary data
information collected for the first time is current and relates directly to the collectors study
ex.surveys and questionaires

Blue Ocean Strategy

A Blue Ocean Strategy is a buisness idea that is so far out there that there isnt any competetion for it because its never been done and is new and innovative something that combines two things to draw from both crowds an example of this is Cirqu du Solei which combines the circus concept along with theatre which then brings both crowds so if you want to see entertainment that can be creative and intellectual it is perfect along with no one else can pull it off like they can so there is no competietion to worry about. The opposite of this blue ocean is a Red Ocean which is an ocean of all the same types of buisnesses which just undercut each other and try to win customers with prices and nothing new and innovative as though they are just trapped in the harbor and can only come up with simple ideas and attack other companies resulting in red in the water people that can achieve a blue ocean are thinking outside of the harbor using big ideas and are very creative. A Red Ocean company could be Coca-Cola and Pepsi which are practically the same drink and just undercut each other.

The Six Principals of the Blue Ocean Strategy are
1:Reconstruct Market Boundries
which is just doing things that aren't typical for that brand of product or buisness
2:Focus On The Big Picture Not The Numbers
Always focus on making your idea more innovative and less about how much money you can make from it and dont get lost in statistics
3:Reach Beyond Existing Demand
Think about future customers and not just about now
4:Get the Strategic Sequence Right
Think about the things that make a product work and its not just about creating something new and not being able to sell it but think about how much you can make it for who will buy it things like  this.
5:Overcome Key Orginizational Hurdels
Make good excutive desicions and dont over use resources when you dont have them make sure everyone is in a comfortable situation to some extent and be orginized
6:Build Execution into Strategy
You need to create trust in the company you have and have trust with all participants because a blue ocean strategy has a fair sized risk and everyone needs to know they might not acheive the full potential of a blue ocean strategy

Shark Tank-Mr.Todds Pies

He sells over 300 000 pies a day and people line up for pies and he made some bad desicions when he was younger and now is out on 3 bank loans and requires assistance to keep the buisness going. $460k for 10% of his company. $850 dollars in sale last year making 20% revenue. He cant keep up with the demand so he needs assistance. Sweet potatoe pie represents 94% of the Wholesale revenue generated.He says 300k will go towards output facilities so he can ship pies to companies that are demanding them and the other 100k will go towards Street teams as he says which will advertise pies more so to the community. Wholesale 50% Retail 50% . The first time he started to big and to fast and got in debt and spent 4 months living in his car. McDonalds wants to put little kiosks in their stores selling his pies. The sharks are offering his want but for half his company and he took the offer because it would save his buisness and then he would have what he wanted  along with expert advice and people who are in it to make money. I think it was a good idea because he now has experts that are there for him both as mentors and as finacial backups so sure he gave away half his buisness but it wasnt to people who arent looking to improve it. So the 2 sharks got 25% each of the company.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold is Austrian he came to America  with only a gym bag. He is from Tal Austria born in 1947 . He lived in a house with no heat or refridgerator. Arnold's dad was the chief of police and was a perfectionist and supported atheletic compitions and often he favoured Arnolds brother rather then Arnold. At the age 15 Arnold wanted to be the best body builder and in the start he had a low pain tolerence and he had to substatute pain for pleasure. He built body mass much faster then other people. After becoming a body builder champ he wanted to go into movies. Arnold went to the gym 6 times a week and even broke a window to work out on a sunday his father only let  him go to Gras to train 3 times a week so he built a gym at home. He always liked to laugh. from 15 to 18 he was content with the gym and then had to go into the army for a one year service but he went awal to go compete in a body building show were he got the best score 300 and then tryed to sneak back in but was thrown in jail for 7 days. After that his high ups made him a company hero and told him to continue training. He went to london in 1966 to compete in the Mr.Universe competion and took 2nd that year. Every time he did a rep he felt like he was getting a step closer to his goal. At the age of 20 he won the Mr. Universe he is the youngest man to  have won it and when he got on stage he brought a feeling to others like what were they doing there because he had so much confidence he would make them feel like they were losers. Once he got to America he tryed his first American Mr.Universe and got 2nd place which made him so sad but from there on he said he would never lose again.He went to Gold's Gym  and actually started his own mail order buisness. Joe Wheater was his mentor and helped Arnold with his first buisness and his body building techniques.Arnold told Joe that he had to have more Joy in his life other wise he wouldn't enjoy it. When Arnold worked at the gym he made everyone elses energy rise and made their workout better. Arnold won his first IFFB in new york then took 2nd in Mr.Olympia and then Arnold came back the next year and took first and held it for 6 years. Back in Austria his brother died in a car crash then his father died from a stroke.He started to fund the body building competions well Jim orginized it. At 28 he was the undisputed Body Bulding champion of the world. Arnold's first film was Hercules goes to New York which wasn't that good.He was told he would never make it because of his name accent and build but he didnt give up and kept trying and took acting lessons.He won a golden globe for best newcomer . He had a back up plan if the movie career didnt work out he wouldnt buy and sell realestate. Arnold married JFK's niece. Arnold's wife showed him the special olympics which her parents had founded and he gladly made apperances at many of them. He got his first lead role is as Conan and took acting roles. After Conan he was offered the role of the Terminator and he was contemplating to do it or not but in the end he took it and it made him extremely popular.He became more of a working class hero then a mythic movie god which was better for him. by 1985 he was named international star of the year.He married his wife Maria on a row boat on a little lake  in Austria well they were visiting his mother.After the honeymoon he flew down to Mexico to film Predator which got him the lead box office role again.He wanted a more challenging role that wasnt just shooting and grunting but actual acting which he eventually got. The best talent he has is to learn and he continues to learn all the time.He travelled to all 50 states to promote physical fitness in schools.Arnold hasn't been changed by mega sucess and is a very humble and down to earth person.

The things i learned from Arnold are to never give up even when you are told you can't do it.Never let sucess go to your head and always try and be humble.Along with you can always keep learning no matter how old you are and when ever a new challenge presents itself you can do it you just need to make the challenge fit your personality and skills.Arnold is a very insparational person and a great role model.

Canada's Top 100

The First company i chose was Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Why They Were Chosen

offers relocation support services for employees on the move, from a guaranteed home sale program to language training for spouses

hires older workers and counts previous work experience toward their paid vacation allowance and provides a defined benefit pension plan when employees come in from the cold to enter their retirement years

offers excellent maternity and parental leave top-up payments for new mothers (to 93% of salary for 52 weeks) as well as parental leave top-up payments for new fathers and adoptive parents (to 93% of salary for 37 weeks)

in addition to tuition subsidies, employees can take advantage of an onsite training centre that offers a variety of unique training programs

employees can apply to take an unpaid leave of absence, extended unpaid education leaves of absence, and even a self-funded leave of absence so employee can enjoy additional time-off with pay

Employeer Background
CSIS is a goverment orginization that protects national security intrests it is like the Canadian verison of the FBI or CIA. Some of CSIS' activities include gathering and monitoring intelligence, investigating threats, managing security screening, overseeing counter-terrorism measures and conducting operations within Canada.

Physical Workplace

CSIS' physical workplace is rated as exceptional. CSIS office headquarters are located in suburban Ottawa, within nearby public transit and highway access. When designing the head office, employees were consulted about the building's amenities and were provided with opportunities to visit the site during its construction. CSIS is currently in the process of adding a new addition that is scheduled to open in 2011. Inside, the existing head office features an onsite conference centre; onsite fitness facility (with subsidized memberships, treadmills, stationary bikes, shower facilities, stairmasters, rowing machines, weights, information and training sessions on weight training for women, beginner running classes, and nutrition workshops as well as instructor-led fitness classes in yoga, pilates, core, cardio and stretching); employee lounge (with comfortable seating and television); onsite cafeteriaoutdoor patio with barbeque; secure bicycle parking; transit subsidies.

Work Atmosphere

CSIS' work atmosphere is rated as very good. On the job, head office employees at CSIS enjoy casual dress Fridays; employee sports teams. CSIS hosts a variety of social events for employees every year, including golf, softball and hockey tournaments, awards celebrations and special Christmas party for employees' children. To keep employees up-to-date, CSIS highlights agency news via a company newsletter.

Financial Benefits

CSIS' financial benefits are rated as above-average. Individual salaries are reviewed every 12 months. In addition to competitive compensation, CSIS also provides defined benefit pension plan; life & disability insurance; extensive relocation support services (from a guaranteed home sale program to language training for spouses); and a scholarship fund that awards two academic scholarships (to $1,000 each) to employees' children attending their first year of post-secondary studies

Health

CSIS' health and family benefits are rated as exceptional. CSIS' health benefits plan is managed by Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (for basic health coverage) and PSDCP Canada (dental). As part of the health plan, the employer pays 100% of the premiums. The waiting period for new employees is 30 days. Employees receive full family coverage on the health benefits plan. The health plan also includes retiree coverage with no age limit. The basic plan includes routine dental; restorative dental; orthodontics; eyecare ($275 every 2 years); traditional medicine coverage; alternative medicine coverage; massage therapy; medical equipment and supplies; homecare; employee assistance (EAP) plan; travel insurance; healthclub subsidy (to $275 each year). The Agency's family-friendly benefits include: maternity top-up payments (to 93% of salary for 52 weeks); parental leave top-up for new fathers (to 93% of salary for 37 weeks); parental leave top-up for adoptive parents (to 93% of salary for 37 weeks); health benefits during maternity and parental leave. Additional family-friendly benefits include: flexible working hours; shortened work week (fewer hours with less pay); compressed work week; phased-in retirement.

Employee Engagement

CSIS' employee engagement program is rated as very good. Employees receive individual performance reviews every 12 months. Managers receive training in how to conduct effective performance reviews. As part of the review program, employees have the opportunity to voice their feedback on their individual evaluations, helping to promote honest feedback between employees and their managers. To recognize exceptional employee performance, CSIS has a number of in-house programs, including long-service recognition awards, an 'instant' performance recognition award for individuals and groups (includes gift certificates), and a merit award program to recognize exceptional performance (includes cash awards up to $5,000). CSIS sponsors its own in-house employee satisfaction survey. (Surveys are conducted every 24 months).

Community Involvement

CSIS' community involvement program is rated as very good. CSIS participates in charitable initiatives through the Government of Canada's Workplace Charitable Giving Campaign, managed by the United Way / Centraide. Employees take part in the selection of charitable groups assisted each year. Employees receive paid time off to volunteer with their favourite charitable organizations. CSIS manages a "casual Friday" charitable giving program, in which 10 Fridays are used to raise funds for the Government of Canada's Workplace Charitable Giving Campaign, and nine Fridays are used to raise funds for a charitable organization nominated by an employee. Every year, CSIS also recognizes those employees who have made significant efforts volunteering in the community through a unique Humanitarian Award Program, which includes public recognition and a framed certificate to honour their efforts.

The next company i chose was located out of BC it is Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada

Why they were chosen

• helps employees prepare for retirement with retirement planning assistance, a transitional work program that allows employees to gradually leave the workforce, and matching RSP contributions (from 5% to 9% of salary)
• invests in employees' ongoing education with subsidies for professional accreditation and generous tuition subsidies for courses taken at outside institutions, with no annual maximum
• is an industry leader, providing maternity and parental leave top-up payments (to 75% for 52 weeks) for employees who are new mothers
• encourages employees to volunteer in the community by providing time-off for volunteer activities and matching donations to employees' favourite charities
• depending on their position, gives all employees three to four weeks paid vacation after only two years on the job

Employeer Background

Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada is the exclusive Canadian distributor for Harley-Davidson and Buell motorcycles, parts and accessories, branded products and related services. The company supplies merchandise to a wide network of more than 70 retailers across the country, from British Columbia to Newfoundland and Labrador. The company traces its roots back to Fred Deeley Ltd., the Vancouver motorcycle and bicycle business opened by Fred Sr. and Lizzy Deeley in 1914. Shortly after opening their doors, the founders agreed to carry the Harley-Davidson line -- making Deeley Harley-Davidson one of the oldest Harley-Davidson dealerships in the world. The company was re-branded as Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada in 2004

Physical Workplace

Deeley Harley-Davidson's physical workplace is rated as average. In addition to the Richmond head office, the company also has a state-of-the-art distribution centre and offices in Concord, Ontario (just north of Toronto). Back at the the head office, employees enjoy an employee lounge (with music, television and a Harley-Davidson decor); lunchroom areas; free coffee and tea; outdoor patio with barbecue; religious observance room; secure bicycle parking; free parking

Work Atmosphere

Deeley Harley-Davidson's work atmosphere is rated as above-average. On-the-job, employees enjoy casual dress daily; can listen to music while working; organized social events. The company-subsidized social committee organizes several social events every year (which mostly encompass a charitable fundraising component), including a golf tournament, an evening Christmas party for employees, a special Christmas party for employees children, Easter egg hunt, summer barbecues, Halloween costume lunch, and paintball and jousting matches. The company keeps employees up-to-date through a corporate intranet site

Financial Benefits

Deeley Harley-Davidson's financial benefits are rated as very good. To keep salaries competitive the company participates in outside salary surveys every 12 months. Individual salaries are reviewed every 12 months. Deeley Harley- Davidson provides employees with year-end bonuses for all employees; matching RSP contributions (up to 9% of salary); life & disability insurance; retirement planning assistance; subsidized home Internet access; clothing allowance; and discounted company products. (The company's matching RSP plan is self-directed with contribution rates ranging from 5% to 9% of salary, depending on the position).

Health

Deeley Harley-Davidson's health and family benefits are rated as above-average. The company's health benefits plan is a self-insured plan. As part of the health plan, the employer pays 100% of the premiums. Employees who work 30 hours per week receive coverage. The waiting period for new employees is 90 days. Employees receive full family coverage on the health benefits plan. The basic plan includes routine dental; restorative dental; orthodontics; eyecare ($600 every 2 years); traditional medicine coverage; alternative medicine coverage; massage therapy; medical equipment and supplies; employee assistance (EAP) plan; travel insurance. Deeley Harley-Davidson's family-friendly benefits include; fertility treatments; maternity top-up payments (to 70% of salary for 52 weeks); health benefits during maternity and parental leave. Additional family-friendly benefits include; phased-in retirement; and alternative work options (flexible and determined on a case-by-case basis as needed).

Employee Engagement

Deeley Harley-Davidson's employee engagement program is rated as very good. Employees receive individual performance reviews every 12 months. Managers receive training in how to conduct effective performance reviews. Performance feedback is also solicited from co-workers and other managers familiar with each employee's work. Exit interview provided for departing employees. In recognition of exception performance, the company operates an annual incentive program that includes four payout levels that are dependent on position. Deeley Harley-Davidson hires an outside consultant to conduct confidential employee satisfaction and engagement surveys. (These surveys are held every 12 months).

Community Involvment

Deeley Harley-Davidson's community involvement program is rated as exceptional. The company supports local, national and international charitable organizations, including the Kids with Cancer Society (Edmonton), and the Red Deer Food Bank. Deeley Harley-Davidson has also raised nearly $3 million dollars for musclar dystrophy research through their 19-year partnership with Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Employees take part in the selection of charitable groups assisted each year. Employees receive paid time off to volunteer with their favourite charitable organizations. Employees also receive 1 paid day off to volunteer; Approximately 23 charitable and community organizations were supported last year. Through the company's "Share the Care" program, employees at the Richmond office were recently provided with $100 each to donate to their favourite charity -- with an additional matching donation made by the company

The Last company i chose was Loblaw Companies Limited

Why They Were Chosen

• encourages employees' ongoing career development with online and in-house training programs, tuition subsidies for courses at outside institutions, subsidies for professional designations, mentoring and career planning services
• manages a fully-paid 18-month training program for recent graduates, where new graduates (approximately 100 each year) are hired with full pay and benefits and can go in to streams such as store management, supply chain, merchandising, marketing, finance, IT and human resources
• for salaried employees, provides maternity leave top-up benefits (to 75% of salary for 17 weeks), as well as parental leave top-up benefits for new fathers and adoptive parents (to 75% of salary for 10 weeks)
• offers a variety of generous financial benefits, including year-end bonuses, a share purchase plan and a pension plan

Employeer Background

Loblaw Companies Limited is Canada's largest food distributor as well as a leading provider of drugstore, general merchandise and financial products and services. A subsidiary of George Weston Limited, Loblaw is one of Canada's largest private-sector employers with over 138,000 full- and part-time employees working at over 1,000 corporate and franchised stores across the country. Through its portfolio of retail banners, the company manages some of the most recognized and successful private label programs in the country, including the President's Choice, no name, and Joe Fresh Style brands. The company also provides a complete range of banking services to customers through President's Choice Financial and offers its customers a PC points loyalty program.

Physical Workplace

Loblaw's physical workplace is rated as exceptional. Loblaw's modern suburban head office consists of two building modules that are connected by five-story glass atrium that serves as a gathering place for informal gatherings. Outside, the head office even has an extensive herb garden that supplies the state-of-the-art President's Choice Insider's Test Kitchen, where new food products are created year-round. In addition to the test kitchen, the building features an employee lounge (with comfortable seating and television); temporary "touch down" workstations for visiting employees; television production studio (for the creation of internal broadcasts); dry cleaning kiosk; PC banking ATM; convenience store; prescription pick-up service; video rental machine ($1.99 movies); religious observance room; concierge services available; onsite cafeteria (with subsidized, special diet and healthy menu items, including President's Choice Blue Menu items); latte bar; outdoor patio with barbeque; discounts at nearby restaurants; secure bicycle parking; free parking; car pool sign-up system.

Work Atmosphere

Loblaw's work atmosphere is rated as exceptional. On-the-job employees enjoy business casual dress; casual dress Fridays; employee sports teams; organized social events. During the year, and across the company, employees gather for a variety of fun social events, including holiday parties during the Christmas season, a large children's Christmas party in Toronto (with 2,500 guests and 900 children) with activities and even a visit from Santa, summer barbeque to celebrate Canada Day, and new product launch events where employees get to sample and preview new creations from the President's kitchen.

Financial Benefits

Loblaw's financial benefits are rated as exceptional. To keep salaries competitive the company participates in outside salary surveys every 12 months. Individual salaries are reviewed every 12 months. In addition to ensuring its pay levels are competitive, the company also offers new employee referral bonuses (to $2,000 for some positions); year-end bonuses for all employees; share-purchase plan for all employees; defined benefit pension plan; defined contribution pension plan; matching RSP contributions; life & disability insurance; retirement planning assistance; profit-sharing plan for management personnel; discounts (to 40%) at restaurants, stores and services across Canada

Health

Loblaw's health and family benefits are rated as above-average. Loblaw's health benefits plan is managed by Blue Cross. As part of the health plan, the employer pays 80% of the premiums. The waiting period for new employees is 30 days. Employees receive full family coverage on the health benefits plan. The basic plan includes routine dental; restorative dental; orthodontics; eyecare ($150 every 2 years); traditional medicine coverage; alternative medicine coverage; massage therapy; medical equipment and supplies; homecare; employee assistance (EAP) plan; travel insurance. Loblaw's family-friendly benefits include; fertility treatments; maternity top-up payments (to 75% of salary for 17 weeks); parental leave top-up for new fathers (to 75% of salary for 10 weeks); parental leave top-up for adoptive parents (to 75% of salary for 10 weeks); health benefits during maternity and parental leave; extended unpaid parental leave option (beyond the first year). Additional family-friendly benefits include; post-secondary academic scholarships for children of employees; (academic scholarship to $5,000); flexible working hours; telecommuting; 35-hour work week (with full pay); reduced summer hours program; compressed work week; additional paid days off for reaching service milestones (after 10 years of service).

Employee Engagement

Loblaw's employee engagement program is rated as very good. Employees receive individual performance reviews every 12 months. Managers receive training in how to conduct effective performance reviews. Performance feedback is also solicited from co-workers and other managers familiar with each employee's work. Exit interview provided for departing employees. Loblaw rewards exceptional job performance with cash bonuses, additional paid days off and through public recognition awards. Loblaw sponsors its own in-house employee satisfaction survey. (Surveys are conducted every 6 months); Loblaw hires an outside consultant to conduct confidential employee satisfaction and engagement surveys. (These surveys are held every 6 months).

Community Involvement

Loblaw's community involvement program is rated as exceptional. Loblaw supports a variety of local and national charitable and community initiatives. Employees take part in the selection of charitable groups assisted each year. Every year, Loblaw raises millions of dollars for families with disabled children through the President's Choice Children's Charity, which is also one of the country's largest corporate charities. To ensure that every cent of money donated goes directly to charity recipients, Loblaw covers all of the charity's administrative and operational costs in their entirety. In addition, the company has donated money to local community agencies through their "Store Community Investment" program and recently partnered with Food Banks Canada, becoming one of the first national grocers to participate in a food drive campaign at the national level. Loblaw also encourages its employees to volunteer in their communities by providing a $500 donation to those initiatives where employees volunteer for more than 40 hours per year.

Entrepreneurial Seminar

Entrepreneurial Basics

Sense of Mission

Customer/Product Vision

High Speed Innovation

Self Inspired Beahviour

"The inclination of my life has been to do things and make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways. By doing that i please and satisfy myself"
Walt Disney

"The managers knew how to manage ---- but they couldnt do anything"
Steve Jobs- Apple Computer

Sense of Mission : Leaving foot prints in the sand

Be Excited Love your business this is importnant stuff

"Fall in love with your business"(George Tidball Keg Restaurants founder)

What and How

Creating high purpose and high standards

"Our duty as industrialists is to produce goods for the public and to enrich and make happier all those who use them."

 Konosuke Matsushita (panasonic)

Creating Entreperneurial buisness plans

what do i like
wat am i good at doing
what does the market need
what competitive position would i have
wat capabilities and cash must i have

A matter of survival
its not a project
focus on customers
focus on products
the criteria that count

Consider the things you are good at and the things you like when picking a buisness

What Went Wrong
33% of the excellent Comp's (62-84) are gone
84% of the 100 biggest Comp's (1900-2000) gone
70% of the fortune 500 ( 1955-2006) are gone

Bigger is NOT better

Started out
entrepreneurial....
became
managerial....

Life Cycle of an orginazation
 the first part of the cycle is called Entrepreneurial
Start up
to....
High Growth
Top of the cycle
then it goes to....
Decline
then to....
Survival
this is the manergerial side of the Life cycle

Seven Deadly Sins

"Everything that can be invented has been invented"
Charles Duell Director US Patent Office -1899

First Sin
Im Okay-Your Okay
This produces terminal inaction
We are not okay... we are NEVER okay
Crisis....and a sense of urgency are necessary for orginiazations to grow
Let's be excellent....Carpe Diem

Second Sin
One Best Way
Silences workers for ever
Kills innovation

Third Sin
Out of Touch with Competitors and Customers
Your next great idea comes from competitiors and customers

Fourth Sin
Centralize Everything
This is all about controlling things...is bigger actually better?
When in doubt decentralize
Branson;When he sold Virgin Records...it was made up of 50 different record companies
with no more than 60 employees in each.

Fith Sin
Lab in the Woods(Scientists Take Over)
Idea of having an innovation team out in the woods away from the hustle and bustle of buisness allowed for creativity
Best ideas come from the factory floor lunch brainstorming with salesman and face to face meeting with unhappy customers (McD)

Sixth Sin
Marketing Takes Over ( Salesmen Take Over)
Opposite to Lab in the woods
Not product speacialist...you need both Scientists(project specialists)
and salesman (customer specialists) working together

Seventh Sin
Senior Managament Disconnected
MBA Syndrome...sit in the corner office and make decisions... disconnect from the factory flood
and customers
Sear was the largest retailer then it built the worlds tallest building in Chicago...lost connection to customers In come Wal-Mart

John.D.Rockeffeller

He wrote down what he spent and saved everyday which resulted in helping him become wealthy .This will make you a millionaire if you do this properly. John.D.Rockeffeller became the world's first billionaire he was an oil mogul and was pretty ruthless around buisness.John has always wanted to be different then his father and liked order and to try and control uncontrollable things. He recorded everything he spent because recording it makes you realize how valueable money actually is. ( this was called Ledger A)
Rockeffeller thought it was better to refine oil then mine it because oil drys out but some one always needs their oil refiined.After awhile of running the oil refining buisness he tryed to cut out middle men and save money where ever possible even with making their own barrels the workers started using 40 drops of sodder then Rockeffeller got them to try 38 but it didnt work then he said 39 it worked then later on in life he said he saved a fortune.
     He would offer other smaller companies stock instead of just buying them out but if they didnt except he would just pressure them out of the oil game.He told them that they would make more money with him then by themselves which was true. John.D.Rockeffeller established a college  for black women in the late 1800's which was quite amazing and he did it because he thought it was the right thing.He felt a sense of resposibility to use is money for good.Standard Oil got spilt into a bunch of smaller companies and he owned a portion of 34 different companies which were still all very powerful in the oil buisness.He handed out dimes to people which if some one got one of these dimes it was classified a collectible item. John.D.Rockeffeller Jr also had a ledger which he started at a young age.  He was also frugal just like his father and you are more likely much more successful if you are frugal.Rockeffeller Jr. stopped working at the firm and started to spend money on good things like education and juvinielle deliquancy.    After the miners started to rebel in Colarado the federale troops were brought in and 75 miners died in the massacre of Ludlow so Jr went there and spent time with the miners and their families to show them that they are important to him. After the death of Rockeffeller Sr. , Jr wanted to make the Rockeffeller name to be a good symbol so he gave money to many different orginaztions and he helped keep and preserve nature by funding national parks and protecting them. This made him and the Rockeffeller name much more popular with the public. Jr's wife started the Museum of Modern art with some other wealthy women and eventually Jr donated millions into it. When he died he was remebered as the great philanthropest and a great man not a tyrant or a bad public person which was what he strived for to be known as a good man. The family's net worth is estimated to be 5.5 billion dollars.

  What i learnt from the Rockefffellers is the value of money is better realized when you record how much you make and being frugal can help you end up a millionaire . Along with Richard Branson being good to the people who work for you and donating money can make you a better person in peoples eyes and its always a good thing to use extensive wealth for good.

Buisness Guidlines

Here  are some guidelines that can be used for a buisness
"First to know , first to handle." So first person in a buisness to hear about it should try and solve it first rather then handing it off
a stat that is helpfull is : an unhappy customer will tell 10 people about a problem while a satisfied customer will tell only four people about a good experience.
These are some guidelines Richard Branson owner of Virgin mobile companies etc. uses to run his many buisnesses

Richard Branson

Richard Branson is the owner of the chain of Virgin companies he has about 40 plus companies which is insane for one man to have created and started all of these companies. The comapanies he owns varies from Virgin Vodka to Virgin Cosmetics which is quite a big difference. He says that if you can run one company you can run any company and he said that life is one long learning process and enjoys taking risks. He sold the 4th biggest record company in the world to keep his airlines alive and protect the jobs of the people in Virgin Airlines. The total revenue of the Virgin companies is 25 billion and the amount of employes is 55,000

He was knighted for help producing the sex pistols song god save the queen 25 years later. He also is the first man to produce a public space program where people can fly up into space on a Virgin space ship this new companies name is called Virgin Gallactic.He was very bad at school and didnt even complete school he left at 15 years old. He learnt the difference between Net income and Gross when he was 50 years old.His mother made him find his own way to his grandmas house 5 miles away when he was a young age around 4.He has been to jail once or twice for what he said were ancient laws one which involves saying something about diseases and the other time he nearly went to jail was for saying bullock on the Sex Pistols album.He thinks the best way to deal with people is fairly and nicely.He also likes to upset status quo's so taking on challenges. Family is extremly important to him and spends 3 months with them  minimum.
Some things he has said and put money into are :
Extreme Wealth = Extreme Responsibility
Prize : for extracting carbon out of the atmosphere and methane out of the atmosphere.
WarRoom:Sovle African problems and social problems.
It's important that people with wealth use it for good things and it wouldn't be good if they used it for bad things

In summary this man is successful because he has learnt how to overcome adversity and solve problems his own way . He knows how to treat people with respect and then people respect him.
Small is beautiful all of his companies that he has invested in are small companies of only 400 people or he has started small companies then let someone else run them

So from Richard i learnt how treating people better will make your buissness experience much better and that it leads to success to always try new things and take risks (leap in to the unknown) and live life at its fullest.

24 Hour Rule

The 24 hour rule is a way to lead your life by to some extent . The concept of this rule is if you confront someone during the day and you have a problem with something they said or did you have 24 hours to confront them otherwise you dont have an opinion on that subject after 24 hours. This is the 24 hour rule and i am excited to try this out myself :)

Stock Tracking

Today i started tracking a company of my choice. I have picked General Electric because they make microwaves and without mircowaves cooking would be a longer and more difficult task and they also were the creators of the minigun. They create many household appliances such as stoves and microwaves and their market cap (which is how much money the comapny is worth) is 221.23 billion dollars.I think General Electric's stocks will increase over time slowly because there is a constant need for household appliances like microwaves etc.