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Many people asked me how I would list the elements making a great leader:
(1) Personal humility fortified with professional will, which is much different from ego-drive, or the capacity for show-off combined with a large dose of personal PR. Humility...
The wrong answer for service professionals is your professional category, in my case "headhunter".
It is the wrong answer because people have preconceived notions about headhunters and what they do, and it is often not a notion that sets you up for...
In "The Talent Advantage", Alan Weiss and Nancy MacKay explore some of the myths of Corporate Recruiting.
They offer the key insight that competing with pay and benefits is silly and expensive. It is silly because dollars attract everyone, including...
Search consultants trying to win search mandates by selling "benefits" are unlikely to gain much business.
Two fundamental human motivations are pain (avoiding loss), and pleasure (seeking reward.) The two often apply together, though is widely...
Korn Flakes Q1 ended on 31 July. The facts:
- Year to year revenue dropped 39%, to 123.3 Mio USD from 217.5 Mio USD, compared to Q4 FY2009 revenue grew net 4% (excluding results from an acquisition earlier this year).
- KFY posted a net loss of 14.3...
