Levi Giesbvecht - Spa Utopia

Levi Giesbvecht is very passionate about making people feel good and look good, when he first started he wanted to make sure that everyone thats working for him is passionate so they do there very best job and be the best ones in the industry, he provides his employees with benifits like a free trip to mexico every year.  He has a determination to succeed, He also allows his employees to make more money for doing more work.

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart was born on August 3rd 1941 in New Jersey.

When she was just a child her parents where just making enough money to support the family and all of her clothes where hand made. Her mother tought her how to cook and sew.  At school she was considered a dream kid and was one of the top students in high school.  When she was younger she wasnt like the rest of the kids and didnt like playing with dolls or toys but liked working with her parents.

Later she became a model and made 15$ an hour and later got married at the age of 19.

She started a catering business and started writing books and soon got a TV Show.

Canads Top 100 Companies/Employers

Telus

Working at Telus would be fun because your allowed to dress casually and you dont have to wear a suit and tie every day, listen to music during work, and they give out monthly prizes to their employees.  Telus reviews individual salaries every 12 months and give you a referall bonus up to 1,000 for some positions, and provide year end bonuses for all employees.  Telus provides seperate health plans for Union and Non-Union employees.  All new employees receive 3 weeks of vacation allowance after their first year at Telus, and increases after 8 years. Every 6 months employees receive individual performance reviews.

HP Canada

HP Canada provides their employees with tuition subsidies up to $5,000 for courses outside institutions.  Inside the head office they have a 6 story tall glass atrium, a onsite fitness facility, onsite facility, employee lounge with nice chairs and tv's, they even have a onsite tim hortons and give their employees free parking.

They are allowed to dress casual.  HP reviews everyones salary every 12 month to make sure everyone is getting paid right.  After the first year employees receive 3 weeks of vacation which increases after 10 years, all employees receive 180 paid sick days each year.

TD Bank Financial Group

TD Bank helps their employees plan for retirement, hosts holiday parties for children of employees complete with carnival rides, a petting zoo, pony rides and over 3,000 gifts delivered by Santa, provide their employees excellent financial benefits.  Throughout the year TD allows casual dress fridays, they are allowed to listen to music while working, sport teams, organized social events.

TD Bank's health benefits plans are self-insured by the bank and administered by ClaimSecure Inc.

Every new employee receives 3 weeks of vacation allowance for the first year and increases after 9 years. Employees that have been working at TD for a long time receive up to 5 weeks of vacation each year. 10 Paid sick days are allowed to each employee.

Tina Seelig

Dont Burn Bridges - This is a good statement to hear and to tell other people because you never know when you might need those people in the future.

Do the job you get the job - This is a good way to get a promotion at your job for example, instead of asking for a promotion just slowly start doing the jobs of what ever position you want to get promoted to, to show that your interested and have the skills required for that position.

Good to Great

Particle Principles

Confront the brutal facts

Stocdale Paradox

The hedgeconcept

A culture of discipline

The fly wheel and doom loop

Building Vision

My goal when i am older is to be the owner of a skateboard company that not only creates skateboards but creates other skateboard accesories that skaters use for example hats, shoes, clothes, stickers etc. I also would like to create skateparks in cities and somehow help out skateshops in towns that arent really big and need a little boost to get them going.

Ray Kroc - McDonalds

Ray Kroc tried joining the army to try and get out of school but was to young so he joined the RedCross and as soon as he got shipped out the war ended so he came back right away, When he came back he tried going back to school but only lasted one semester after he dropped out.

After school Ray went into the paper cup business and started selling paper cups for 13 years.  After selling paper cups he moved to selling a multi mixer machine.  Convinced that he could sell mixers to every new restaurant that opened, he partnered with the McDonald brothers to open and franchise additional McDonald's restaurants.

After a while Kroc started getting upset with the McDonalds brothers because Kroc would have to get their approval before making changes and sometimes the McDonalds brothers would say no so he later bought out McDonalds for 2.7 million dollars.

By 1961 there was around 200 McDonalds around the country, he used everything to advertise his company, he created a clown by the name of "Ronald McDonald" which became the spokesman for the company as it would bring in kids and their families which is a great advertising method.

Orville Redenbacher Popcorn

Orville was born in Bazil Indiana, He started out by developing a fertilizer and made a small fortune.

Orville passed away on September 20, 1995 at the age of 88.  His mentor was his partner Bowman before 1970,

When Orville started out he did not have a business plan as business plans where not praticle back then because most business where based out of peoples homes.  Orville ended up selling his business but still stayed as the spokesmen for the company.

Today the popcorn company is one of the largest popcorn companies ever even after the owner has passed away.