Spa Utopia - Levi Giesbrecht

Levi Giesbrecht is an entrepreneur in British Columbia was rated a third best entrepreneur. He opened his own mill and makes lost of money. The way he works is by you get paid by how hard you work. If You cut a certain amount of wood you would get paid a certain amount of money so some people in the mill would be getting paid more then double the rest of the people in different mills because they are willing to work harder then those other workers and they get rewarded with more money. Levi Giesbecht also is a pretty incredible person because by not even graduating from high school he beat all odds and became on of the biggest entrepreneurs in all of Canada.

1) pick a good partner.
2)be passionate about what you do.
3)Find a way to be the best.

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart is the face of a house wife she knows all you need to know abouy keeping a clean efficent house, she knows all the tricks anyone would need to know about how to make the best food and how to keep his/ her house in the best shape as possible. Martha grew up in new jersey in a more of a poor family she had mnay brothers and sister. Martha worshiped her father and her father was a very hard working man he mad sure things always looked as good as possible. Her mother was the same way she was a huge perfectionist and she would make sure that things that the laundry was always done, and her mother also made sure that the family grew and picked there own food. As Martha grew up more she become a very good student who got very good grades and was looking forward to going to university but she was unable to becuase of her family finacing. But Martha over came that and started modeling to make money so she could go to university after many years she achieved that goal and got into University in New York. That is where she met her husband andy stewart that got married when they were only 19 years old. Later on Martha actually droped out of University so Andy could consentrate on his studies and Martha could stay home and be the house maker for her and andy. However Martha managed to make a company out of this catering for weddings. Then she moved on to making cook books and all sorts of other things. Martha had many different jobs.

Canadas top 100 Employees

BC Hydro:
BC hydro would be a great place to work because they have great benefits towards your retirment for one thing. It helps by having its own technilogical training program for its new up and coming employees. For new mothers BC hydro provides its new mother with 85% of there salary for 17 weeks. BC hydros work place has also been rated above average to work at by its employees. Also BC hydros health beneifts are very good and have been rated very high with health and dental.

BC Public Services: It helps many people get jobs, they provide either online trainging on in store training for what ever helps you with your living situtations. BC public services has also been rated a very good place to work with the options of just wearing casual clothing and not very strict staff. And They also hold a week long trip for is employees as a thank and just for a vaction for everyone.

Tina Seelig (Standford)

Tina Seeling is a very inspirational person who uses her life experiense to teach her students about how to be sucussful in life. By doing things such as not buring bridges and not being upset with failure and many other things in life. In tina's eyes sometimes things that look bad are not always bad as they seem sometimes failing can actually lead to better things then we thought. It is all about turning every opportunity in life into a good one instead of getting down and depressed about everything that goes wrong in life its better to try and just make it into a good experience.

Good to Great

Level Five Executive:
First who,then what:
First who, then what practical principles:
Confront the brutal facts:
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Ray Kroc

Ray Kroc was the owner of McDoanlds the biggest fast food restaurant in the world. He grew up in chicago, he quit school at a young age to become a ambulance driver for world war 1 but by the time his training was down Ray never got to see any battle. as Ray got older he sold milkshake machines and met the Mcdonald brothers. Later in his life he bought the Mcdonald franchise off of the brothers and started his own Mcdonald's all over Ameriaca evenentualy puting McDonalds all over the world. In His life he got married a few times and had a few kids. In his later years he bought a baseball team the San Diego Padres. He died in 1984 of heart failure.

Orville Redenbacher

He was the creater of Orville Redenbacher popcorn, he was born in 1907- 1995 he grew up selling popcorn at a young age and grew up to open his on franchise of porncorn. He started some of the style of unpoped popcorn.