Steve Jobs said, “The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.” Businesses need to move at a great speed in order to deal with an environment which is volatile and uncertain. It is their talent who has to...
“First comes thought; then transformation of the thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality”, said Napoleon Hill, author of best-seller self-help books. Companies are focusing on their core business rather than frittering away their...
Howard Scultz famously commented about attrition in customer traffic to Starbucks, “I don’t want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the...
Large companies sometimes see great opportunities in the market and get into a hiring spree. They fight with the others to get the talent on board. As goes the old adage, there is a collateral damage when a fight breaks out. What happens when a war for talent takes...
Haven’t we seen and heard of people lying, overstating expenses when they went on a business trip, taking credit for others’ work, badmouthing colleagues and others? Stealing, taking shortcuts to work, shouting at others, passing sarcastic comments, being...
