Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson

31-Jul-1957


Andorra


Media Executive

Dr. Thompson specializes in senior leadership, business strategy, and innovation and has spent more than 25 years leading teams and building companies from the ground up. It provides practical, important and practical advice to leaders at all levels of the organization.

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"That's just part of how this generation has been raised. You add a $40,000 price tag for a school like Colgate, and you have high expectations for what you get."

"We effectively managed our distribution channel to closely match our shipments in with distributor sales out. Channel re-sales were seasonally down about 3% during the first quarter but were more than 17% higher than a year ago. We managed our sales into the channel to this level of re-sales, resulting in a slight decrease in absolute inventory levels for approximately flat weeks of supply in the channel compared to the prior quarter."

"We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth."

"However, some specific remarks were inappropriate and ran the risk of calling into question John's own impartiality and, by extension, that of the BBC. We've made it clear to him that this must not happen again."

"We weren't prepared to take the risk last week with David Johnson, in saying that he's had about two weeks of really solid training where we've really given him a huge amount of work, tried to put match conditioning into him to see if we got through last week, and we have to wait and see whether we choose to play him this week."

"We would love to put (a trophy) in there. We played off for one a couple years ago. We played reasonable footy but we lost the game. We didn't handle the loss well."

"We made excellent progress in 2005 by improving our management of the distribution channel, reducing inventories throughout the supply chain and reducing our capital spending and ultimately depreciation expense."

"I don't think the game has any problems at all. We shouldn't keep trying to predict how the game might be played in three or four years. Everybody is happy how the game is going now."

"If your father didn't work there, chances are an uncle of yours did."

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