ActOne Group
also referred to as: actone
14 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 3, 2018 by Janice Bryant Howroyd · said 53 times in 4 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Guy Raz (47), Janice Bryant Howroyd (6)
tap a year for its mentions
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 23 mentions in 2 episodes 12 per episode
2018 29 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about ActOne Group, oldest first
Dec 3, 2018
Relying on Client Relationships Over Written Contracts Creates Business Risk
“One of the failures I've seen occur in my own business as in others is that we create Great relationships with people in companies, and definitely we should do that, but people are moving all of the time, and the agreement you have with a person, it may not al…”
Dec 3, 2018
Dec 3, 2018 negative
Howroyd: Initially Resisted Minority Business Certification as Intrusive
“Initially I thought that certification was a strip search. I needed to open up my business to total exposure to someone, to in return, have them come back and say, yes, you are a minority. Yes, you are a woman. And yes, you are running this business. And it ju…”
Dec 3, 2018
Howroyd Required Family to Earn Promotions Elsewhere Before Joining ActOne
“Now, one of the things that I insisted for my family members before they could come into my company is that they either had to work for three years in a larger company somewhere else, Or have three promotions before they could come to work for me.”
Dec 3, 2018
Howroyd Sent White Colleagues to Pitch Clients to Avoid Racial Bias
“I'll tell you candidly, and I'm not proud of it, there were times when I would gift my intelligence to other members of my team and have them go in and make a presentation or them make the pitch. So that the client wouldn't have to interact directly with me as…”
Dec 3, 2018 positive
Dec 28, 2020
Howroyd Often Had White Colleagues Pitch to Sidestep Client Bias
“I'll tell you candidly, and I'm not proud of it, there were times when I would gift my intelligence to other members of my team and have them go in and make a presentation or them make the pitch. So that the client wouldn't have to interact directly with me as…”
Dec 28, 2020 neutral
Howroyd: You Cannot Teach Experience, Common Sense, Confidence, or Unwilling Minds
“In our company we teach that there are five things you can't teach people. You can't teach people experience. You can't teach people common sense. You can't teach people confidence. You cannot teach people anything if they don't want to learn it, and you can't…”
Dec 28, 2020
Dec 28, 2020
Howroyd: Formal Contracts Must Supersede Client Relationships Because Personnel Leave
“And one of the failures I've seen occur in my own business as in others is that we create Great relationships with people in companies, and definitely we should do that, but people are moving all of the time, and the agreement you have with a person, it may no…”
Dec 28, 2020
Howroyd: Family Must Earn Outside Experience Before Joining ActOne
“One of the things that I insisted for my family members before they could come into my company is that they either had to work for three years in a larger company somewhere else Or have three promotions before they could come to work for me.”
Dec 28, 2020
Howroyd Merged Companies With Husband So Their Son Wouldn't Choose Between Them
“I think the thing that would make it interesting for me is that our son not have to decide which one of us he wants to work for, because by then our son was looking at our industry as a future for himself, and he had worked in my company, he had worked in his …”
Dec 28, 2020
Dec 28, 2020 negative
Howroyd: Black Female Founders Face "Can We" Scrutiny Rather Than "How"
“I think the questioning and the scrutiny would be different. There would be more question of can we than how will we. Whereas if I sent someone different on my team in, the questions around how are we going to do this happened a lot quicker in the conversation…”