When a company achieves success over a period of time, most people feel that the success of the business is due to an effective company strategy that it followed. But formulation of key strategies is a small component of success. The major responsibility for a company to be successful lies in the responsible vision and leadership of its leaders. Leaders are not born, in fact leaders are created and with their experience in the business domain they chart out success stories for their company and nurture future leaders within the company and take the company to new levels of success. The above principle can be aptly applied for the Galt and Company and the strong accurate business visions of its founder director M. Scott Gillis. Company team members also include Leroy Mergy and Joseph Shalleck to name a few.

• Value based leadership

Most companies are least interested in understanding the importance of shareholders in the growth of their company. They are more interested to make money. But few corporate leaders like M. Scott Gillis have understood that even during recession in the economy and with major job cuts taking place, the shareholders should receive a good return on the company stocks they have invested in. With such value based leadership from Michael Scott Gillis, a company is bound to be successful and the share holder of the company would support them in any business initiative they undertake.

• Taking the extra initiative and being responsible for various business strategic decisions

A good leaders leads from the front and takes initiative when new business policies are undertaken during emergency situations. Mr. Gillis the co founder and Senior Management of Galt and Company has used his education that he has received from premium business schools like Harvard to develop great management entrepreneurship. The current days of recession in the economy has not curbed his initiative to help many companies and prevent them from becoming bankrupt and he has himself tried to introduce business policies that would help these company to revitalize.

• Leaders should be foresighted and be able to take accurate business decisions well ahead of time

The success story of Galt and Company depends highly on the futuristic vision of M. Scott Gillis and his ability to convince its team members regarding the astute business acumen that he has and his ability to develop business strategy for the company to achieve this vision. The leader in Mr. Gillis is willing to take chance and develop business models that are different for his team to achieve success. He is also willing to go great lengths to motivate his company staff members to achieve focus and determination in order to achieve the business profits that would help him to achieve his vision into reality. The vision that he has formulated soon gets converted into the vision of each staff member of the company and they work united under his leadership to achieve maximum benefits for an ordinary shareholder.

Thus under the proven leadership of M. Scott Gillis, his company staff members have understood, the areas that the company could profit from are and what methods are needed to achieve this. Without the leadership of such a great leader, the company would be in doldrums like other companies.

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The slowdown of the global economy has made many companies experience fluctuation in its business. Therefore in order to enjoy a good business it becomes essential that these companies seek the services of management consultants like Galt and Company.

This company has made a name for itself in recent times, because of the natural leadership and solutions that its leader M. Scott Gillis provides to these companies. M. Scott Gillis and his core team have developed effective management policies that have helped many companies return from the brink of collapse. Mr. Gillis has used his business education at Harvard, to formulate various business offerings by his companies to companies that immediate help in the current economy. Some of his basic strategies and options that his company offers are as follows-

Implementing business strategies that would enhance the performance of the company

Michael Scott Gillis has used his background in business education at Harvard and formulated a few effecting strategies that would help a company. These are:

• Understanding the key areas of business that can help the business to grow and using the segment to generate good profits for the company.

• Using financial resources accurately in various business campaigns and making the staff very focused in achieving targets specified.

• Stopping financial investments in areas which have experienced financial loss and reinvesting in areas which could generate quick business profits. This is one of the key strategies that made him very popular in the current economy scenario.

• Mr. Gillis is a unique leader who has helped his team members understand the importance of strict business monitoring and being flexible to change an initiative immediately when it has failed to make profits.

• Understanding the needs of its customers and offer customers services and product that would help their needs in the long run. Mr. Gillis believed that a business closure was not the ultimate aim of a business. Customer satisfaction was more important and he showed how customer satisfaction could revitalize a sinking company, if good will was created.

Improving the resources of the company

Many people feel that M. Scott Gillis can understand his team members and his company staff so well that he can convert his company vision into them and they work united together to achieve this goal. Some of his personal efforts that he undertook are as follows:

• He paid huge importance to a shareholder and how it should enjoy stock benefits even during slow economy. Therefore he used units of his business to create the performance that would lead to achieve this objective.

• Mr. Gillis strongly believed in maintaining an effective transparent communication between senior management personals with each staff of company’s business unit.

• Efficiently using financially resources to gain profitable growth.

• Understanding the significance of shareholders and improving on it.

Thus Mr. Michael Scott Gillis with his business vision has single handedly paved success for many companies and his company’s potential has grown thanks to his leadership.

We live in a Social Media World. Everyone is more connected than ever and almost everyone has a combination of Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. As we sit at or home or even for dinner, a lot of family members are connected to their devices. We have lost a lot of the personal connections in our lives. It’s become easier to just text people than to even talk to them anymore. Eventually, the a phone conversation maybe a thing of the past. It’s part of the our lives now and it’s becoming even more worse each year. The Internet is growing and the phones are becoming more and more sophisticated. We have iPhone Watches now where you can actually do everything from your watch. You don’t even need to touch your phone anymore. Internet phone numbers are becoming easier to get such as a free Google Voice number. Everything can be done from the computer including being social. How does this really impact us in the future? I believe we are slowly distancing ourselves from the normal interactions we grew up with. Children growing up will not be using the phone for normal conversations – only to text. They will communicate with messaging services like Facebook for example. That is becoming more of the trend it appears.

I read a great article by Dr. Robi Ludwig on the Huffington Post where she talks about some of the strategies we can use to connect with each other again. If you don’t know who…..She talks about how connecting is in our DNA. We are hardwired to connect with each other so we are not left alone. Connecting with others has helped us survive and thrive for generations. In addition, Ludwig talks about how an introverted person can become more social to better improve their career and personal lives. She mentions a few activities like reaching out to others and helping by also using compliments. People love compliments about themselves and also like talking about themselves so you can engagement new friends with keeping that in mind. There really are a lot of things a person can do to better themselves socially.

The technology times ahead are unknown still. We’ve seen a trend of the space only growing with less in-personal socialization. Are normal phone conversations dying out? Do you even use your phone to talk to any of your friends? I personally don’t. Leave your comments on the topic.

Roy Price is a Hollywood Executive who has made his mark in the entertainment industry. From movies, videos, and animation, Price has had quite a unique career. Roy Price was able to make a name for himself in several different entertainment sectors. His family connections along with his education and creativity put him in a position for success in various business endeavors. Price’s mom, Katherine Crawford, was an actress who appeared on the 1970’s Seattle-set show Here Come the Brides. His dad, Frank Price, ran Columbia and Universal studios, and his maternal grandpa, Roy Huggins, created and produced breakthrough TV shows like The Fugitive, The Rockford Files, and Maverick. Roy Price has worked at Disney as VP of Creative Affairs, developed Amazon Video and Amazon Studio, divisions of Amazon Inc, and has worked as a consultant in the entertainment industry.

According to Wikipedia, Roy Price was born July 21, 1967, in Los Angeles, California, USA. His parents were well known Hollywood elite. His father, Frank Price, former chairman of Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures, and Katherine Crawford, making him a familiar with Hollywood from a very young age. Roy Price was academically challenged from a young age and continued to be a high achiever in the academic realm as he continued his studies. His impressive educational background would serve him well as he climbed the Hollywood corporate ladder. His formal academic training combined with his exposure to Hollywood elite would give him a competitive edge in an evolving entertainment industry where tech would soon have a huge influence on how individuals consumed entertainment.

What’s refreshing about Price is that while he has been successful in the cutthroat realm of Hollywood, he had the education and family connections to give him a competitive edge in the business. Price attended an ivy league college, and even went on to get his law degree. Price attended boarding school across the country away from the glitz and glam of Hollywood. He attended the highly praised Phillip Academy Andover, an exclusive boarding school north of Boston. While Price showed talent in math and physics, he went on to study English and Literature at Harvard University. He then earned his Law Degree at the University of Southern California. Price was quite intentional about the education choices he made. He said when “he looked at the biggest difference makers, aside from filmmakers, and determined that they fell into two camps: college dropouts, such as Jeffrey Katzenberg and Barry Diller, or lawyers. At that time, I had already graduated from college, so it was too late not to graduate from college,” Price said. “So, it was clear I had to go to law school.” Ironically, Price never used that law degree, rather followed the family legacy and went to work in entertainment. Roy Price’s career was not a linear path of a typical Hollywood executive.

Starting out as a newbie with a strong family name and impressive educational background, his first job in Hollywood was working as a set assistant; to be specific “third assistant camera” during the shooting of “Return to the Blue Lagoon,” a humble beginning to his later career success. After his short stint of film assistance, he went a different route, but for a very intentional reason. For two years he worked as a Financial Analyst at Allen &Co. To get exposure to the finance part of the business. His pattern of being prepared with a law degree and wanting a holistic understanding of the film world would make Price a very desirable candidate for future entertainment jobs. For example, Price landed a job at Disney as the VP of Creative Affairs and made a good name for himself during his time there. Favorites that he developed or produced included Disney animation favorites like Recess, Pepper Ann, Hercules, Timon & Pumba, and The Weekenders. Also, several animated films and direct to videos including Recess: School’s Out, and Tarzan.

Once again, after spending adequate time at Disney working in entertainment, Price stepped into a different work of global management consulting. Price took a job a McKinsey, a firm that serves a broad mix of private, public, and social sector institutions. While in this position, he worked with media companies working primarily within home video, international television, and U.S film and video distribution. Price was learning about how people consume their entertainment, and this information would be a stepping stone towards his time developing Amazon Prime.
From 2003 to 2004 Price ran Price Entertainment and acted as a business consultant to media companies. Clients included a national broadcast television network, a primary Los Angeles talent agency, and others. His father, Frank Price originally founded the company. And as Roy Prices career was like winding river, another change was up ahead the bend, into a world much different than that of Hollywood. He bounced around from the entertainment to the business side of things giving himself a well-rounded education and glimpse into each world. Bringing the two worlds together made him a valuable asset.

Price went from working at Price Entertainment in Hollywood to joining the Tech world in Seattle. From Hollywood sets and he took on a job at Amazon to develop its streaming service, Amazon Prime. With Price’s exceptional set of skills and experience, he was the ideal candidate for the job. And it was a pretty big undertaking. With his background in film, animation, shows, finance, law, and storytelling, he rolled up his sleeves and joined the tech world to turn Amazon into the storytelling and entertainment machine it is today.

Price was a key player to take Amazon Video and be one of the leaders through its progression to Amazon Prime. Initially, Price worked on Amazon Video on Demand working as a group product manager and director. He secured a deal with TIVO helping Amazon become accessible on the consumer television. He launched Amazon Video in 2008 and Amazon Studios in 2010. From 2009–2014, Price also worked as Director of Amazon Video on Demand. Initially, people were very critical of the idea of Amazon Studios. Hollywood productions are quite calculating and have a bunch of random unfiltered scripts flooding into the studio had not been done before. But with great risk comes great reward. The operation, which plans to reward winning filmmakers and screenwriters with $2.7 million toward developing movies under a first-look deal with Warner Bros.

The naysayers and critics were proved wrong, but it took a few years to get the ball rolling on the project. Amazon Studios original content had very positive feedback. Alpha House earned some positive feedback, but no award. Amazon stepped up their game in Amazon Studios’ second year when it swiped five Emmy Awards to Netflix’s four. Amazon’s first hits which included Transparent, a noble, exquisitely trendy comedy-drama about a transsexual dad, and Mozart in the Jungle, about a madcap orchestra conductor and a young oboist, won four Golden Globes in the past two years. Amazon can take great risks and get a comfortable feel for what stories grip consumers in an authentic and new way. The unique creative process of Amazon Studios has allowed talented writers to combine with discerning audiences to give people something that the bureaucracy of Hollywood wouldn’t take the risk on. Viewers know after a while when they are watching variations of the same show. With Netflix on the rise at the same time as Amazon, people were becoming even more particular about what they were going to watch. No longer content with flipping through traditional cable, online streaming service had to bring their A game. Price understands what people want. “You’ve got to make it interesting and worthwhile and buzzworthy to stand out in a crowded market,” said Price. “What you’re looking for is that ambitious, completely addictive, binge-worthy show that’s in the top 20 or 10 — or one — that people are talking about. In 1977, you could get a lot out of a show that simply retained the audience of a previous show. But today, it’s on demand — they have to demand it. So, you’ve got to earn that.”

From 2014–2017, Price was head of Amazon Studios and VP for Prime Video. Amazon is well on its way to world domination. And knowing consumer habits can put them ahead of the learning curve of in terms of what appeals to their audience base. Streaming services are about to learn patterns of consumer behavior with algorithms. This information can also tell them what products they would be interested in. The merging of tech and Hollywood is giving the old way of entertainment a run for its money. Traditional cable gives you way more than is necessary and maybe only a little bit of what you want on a limited schedule. Amazon can give you what you want and continue to learn and better suite your entertainment preferences.

CEO of Amazon Bezos and is playing a strategic game. Amazon has insight into consumer behavior in a way that other streaming services don’t. Their goal is to capture audiences for years, not just for a fleeting period. “Their strong belief is the more time you spend in the Amazon ecosystem, the more money you spend on Amazon,” media analyst Richard Greenfield told The Los Angeles Times. “The key for Amazon is how do they get you to spend more time in that ecosystem — and it’s with having a deep catalog of movies, TV, and music.” The company of Amazon is known for its hardworking, bold, and creative executives. Bezos hires risk takers and people who can think ‘what could be.’ Streaming is a competitive service. With other companies like Netflix and Hulu also making their mark and gaining popularity, there is increasing pressure to stand out to consumers. You have to offer something that the others can’t.

With all success, hard work, some serendipity, and bringing together the right people with the right expertise, means that innovative and creative ventures can be successful. Luckily for Amazon, Roy Price was the right man for the job of getting that project to where it stands today. If you are a consumer who appreciates original streaming shows/movies or a favorite Disney channel Cartoon, you can thank the creative minds of entertainment industry leaders like Roy Price. Hollywood can often be an unforgiving world. Full of critics and people who are creatives, yet often unable to take creative risks, Amazon Prime has been an outlet for Roy Price to combine the technology world with the establishment of Hollywood, where nowadays a risky producing show is almost unheard of because most productions are calculated and budgeted. And as consumers continue to feel the inauthentic productions, they continue to look for a storytelling experience that will open their eyes to something new. As the world of entertainment continues to evolve, we can hope for more executives that will be willing to take these risks.

With the speed of new apps coming out everyday, we are proud to bring you the latest in hiking and outdoor apps for both the iPhone and Android phones.

Mike Asimos is a avid hiker and outdoorsman. You can read more about him on this blog: mikeasimos.blogspot.com. He shares his travels and the most popular hiking and outdoor products on the market. Mike Asimos explained, “Having traveled all over this great country, I have hiked in some amazing places. However, there is always one thing I wish I had and that is an accurate app on my phone.” As you can imagine getting an app that is extremely accurate is the biggest challenge. Mike educates us one some of the struggles he’s noticed with the current hiking apps on the market he has reviewed, “Apps these days are created by people who have never been there or just copy public information off the Internet. Everyone is trying to make a dollar these days! Downloading a hiking app from someone who has been there and done that hike before (with pictures, maps, ect) would be very beneficial to a serious hiker.” With that being said, we picked his brain and discover some of the greatest hiking apps on the market used by someone who is serious about it. We are sharing that info with our readers below.

Mike Asimos (who also goes my Michael Asimos) on his blog discusses some of the apps he uses the most often.

Top rated and recommended hiking and outdoors apps:
1) BackCountry Navigator ($10). Can be used with GPS so you don’t need a phone either.
2) Chimani National Parks App. It’s Free! Discusses the countries national parks and the popular hiking spots.
3) Every Trail App. This is a free app as well. Mike Asimos won’t leave home without this one. As discussed above it features over 400,000 trails submitted by users so it’s from a wide variety of hikers who have actually been on these recommended trails.

Located in SC, Mr. Mike Asimos has travelled the world sharing his experiences and hiking/outdoor adventures.