He would happily keep me company while I unpacked boxes or cleaned closets.
The cat, Emmylou, kept me company while I wrote my first novel.
As I lit the small propane camp stove and set about my preparations, I warily eyed a small skunk that seemed bent on keeping me company.
When I recently sat down with Jan-Patrick Schmitz, the president and CEO of Montblanc North America, the 105-year-old company known for its high-end writing instruments and other luxury items, he told me the company had recently had the best year in its history.
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He told me the company recruited him and put him through a strict training program.
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Ted Wiley, an Aquion vice president, tells me the company is currently deploying in the kilowatt-hour scale, but will have megawatt-hour systems online next year.
Show me a company that has a practical solar technology.
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Several months ago, someone asked me whether a company should pay attention to social media.
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It reminds me that a company can be so much more than its line of products.
Scott: Tell me about a company doing something in CSR that is a model for our future.
He told me that his company had to expand their business into the BRIC countries just to stay afloat.
That's perfect for me because my company does a lot of free training webinars and seminars for the products we sell.
Until this year, in fact until the past few weeks Microsoft struck me as a company stuck in oligopoly management techniques.
Immediately this tells me that the company is not done doing deals.
"It was suggested to me that the company should be no longer be primarily artistically driven, but should be driven by business, " he told me.
Give me a biotech company that has a promising new drug.
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He told me that the company has taken its own water samples in the Oriente, and has never identified a positive reading for hydrocarbon contamination.
Later, Ed tells me that his company also offers a gentler package, known as Excavate and Exfoliate, in which the gun range is substituted for a spa treatment.
And unfortunately, other than the personal discovery of that blog as a reader, there is no way for me as a company to quantify that emotional connection.
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However, with only a few weeks before he stands down, he sat down with me at the company's Perth training centre for the first long-format interview he's done.
It makes complete sense to me that a company with happy and dedicated workers would do even better, relative to companies without that advantage, when things get tough.
It enormously helped me navigate my company through the recession.
The more Wayfair CEO, Niraj Shah, told me about the company in an October 8th interview, the more I kept wondering why I had never heard of it until then.
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Its COO, Geoffrey Andrews, told me that the company refused to work with a client in Colorado that wanted to do a background screen to see if job applicants were gay or not.
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But he told me that the company no longer had any direction connection with the Pirate Bay, which has instead bounced among temporary hosts since its founders were convicted of copyright theft in 2010.
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