Can You Change Your Company’s Rhythm?
A recent Gallup poll announced that worldwide only about 13% of the workforce is engaged in the work they do. Engaged? As Gallup puts it: psychologically committed to their jobs and likely to be making positive contributions to their organizations. The US and Canada...Purpose – The Way to Motivate Staff? – Some Clarification
Andrew Hill at the FT wrote an interesting column last week about “Purpose”. As he pointed out, it has become quite a buzzword in CEO circles. Ellen Kullman, CEO at Dupont wasn’t the only CEO to use it at the recent World Economic Forum. It seems it is a word...Ownership of Tasks – Key To Scaling
I see the same problem again and again as businesses try to scale their operations. You can’t afford to recruit a new person for every task. So tasks float around half done by the loyal servant with 10 projects to handle. Whether your business employs 5 people or 500...
The Interview Checklist
We all need an interview checklist to to make sure we don’t miss anything. Here is a quick list I use: Pull together a brief online profile of the candidate covering all the usual places they are likely to hang out including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and their...
The Surprising Value of Great People
It is generally assumed when selling a business that the buyer executes a post acquisition integration strategy that will – cut staff, bring their own people in and run the business a different way with their culture. Now of course depending on the relevant size of...Acquisition Support Services
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