But at least that would be a deal that put the customer first.
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If he were to conclude that it is pretty difficult to create a homogenous culture of putting the customer first in an organisation that contains both a giant retail bank and a giant investment bank - and my impression is that he is sceptical such a culture can be nurtured and firmly rooted - would that reinforce the case for breaking up Barclays?
The public face of Goldman has been to repeat the mantra that the customer comes first, but those in the bonus pool or vying to become a managing director seemed to have mastered a completely different ethos: the cultural distinctions of shrewd, smart, aggressive and hard working more than the ethical distinctions of whether you would sell this product to your mother.
The moment of proto-market conception was when the first seller offered to trade with the first customer, and that offer was accepted.
"If they did ask, the customer comes first so we would do it, " says Gina Curtis, secretary to chef Alain Roux.
Before its shift from a partnership to a public company more than a decade ago (and two years before Mr. Smith came aboard as an intern), Goldman might have embodied the customer-first ideal Mr. Smith so fancies.
When it comes to a cure, Miss Zuboff and Mr Maxmin see the answer partly in the structure of corporations, which they regard as too narcissistic, too stuck in old concepts of mass production, even too male-dominated (real men, it seems, won't let the customer come first).
Hiring the first team member with nothing but a vision, attracting the first customer when most large companies shun startups, attracting capital when every investor is seeking the next Facebook.
Should the cost be laid to the first customer or amortized over several jobs?
When the center opened in 1999, the first customer was a single-person startup, LAD Industries, which wanted to improve abdominal and lower-back training on workout machines.
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The need to foray into the spaghetti factory behind your television is especially unfortunate because, when the box occasionally flakes out, one of the first things customer support will tell you to do is to reset it by unplugging it and plugging it again.
The first customer to sign a Cray XC30 contract was HLRS in Stuttgart back in 2010.
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Six weeks later the first customer transaction was successfully concluded and the new revenue stream was underway.
The first customer-ready new Ford Expedition rolled off the assembly line at the Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, Michigan, in March.
The first customer was Dan Stoicescu, a Romanian-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur.
Be very careful, however, that whatever you produce for inventory has a market beyond the first customer, and be careful that you only take orders that are well within your expertise.
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The first customer contract is the hardest to sign.
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Of the two, only the First Progress card reports customer activity to all three credit bureaus.
That's why everyone at FreshBooks, including the executive team, spends the first three months in customer service and support.
The first Univac customer was actually a government entity, the U.S. Census Bureau.
The company reported its youth-oriented brand, Hi, saw an 8% decline in outgoing SMS or text messages per customer in the first three months of this year compared with the first quarter of 2010.
"We live in an era of rapid change where pressures and challenges co-exist, but we must not forget our purpose and keep in mind the premise of 'Customer First', " Mr Lu said in a statement.
What is perplexing is why was the case was brought in the first place if the Claimant customer was not prepared to cooperate in Discovery?
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