3 Lessons on Talent Acquisition
As an entrepreneur, hiring the right people was a concern that occupied my mind often. I’ve gathered various lessons through each of the three technology companies I’ve been involved with building up.
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and other signs of the apocalypse
Our colleague Jim Hancock takes a look at the meeting room and mobile devices, and asks the question “are they a distraction?, or are they just the latest tools to improve productivity?”
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In this chapter of Back To The Cottage, John Sipple describes how the Foley pulp mill organization demonstrated their resilience after Procter and Gamble’s unexpected sale of the mill.
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In this chapter, John tells 5 stories of how the principles dictated by the employees and leadership of the Foley pulp mill began to play out in reality.
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In this chapter of Back To The Cottage, John Sipple gathers his newly formed teams together to redesign and reimplement the foundational principles and organization of the entire Foley plant. Along the way they give Foley employees a stronger sense of ownership of their work, and change the leadership model from a “straw boss” style to a coaching model. They also rework the way skills are developed with the organization.
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After his time at the Charmin Paper Products plant in Germany, John Sipple’s leadership team at Proctor & Gamble offered him a less glamorous task: turning around a run-down pulp mill in the Florida swamplands.
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In chapter 4 of Back To The Cottage, John Sipple assesses the loss of the Cottage business with the growth of the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of modern management.
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Back to the Cottage is the story of John Sipple’s odyssey from the ‘Cottage’ to the corporation, and how he has relied on the values and principles he has learned in the ‘Cottage’ business of his youth.
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Back to the Cottage is the story of John Sipple’s odyssey from the ‘Cottage’ to the corporation, and how he has relied on the values and principles he has learned in the ‘Cottage’ business of his youth.
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The Reason Why Google Is #1?
Google, selected by Fortune as the #1 company to work for, exhibits a culture and leadership that seems more like the biblical concept of a household, oikos, rather than a modern company.
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And How You Can Avoid Them
This is a book that has been in my personal library for twenty years. And though the advice given seems so basic in a universe of over-hyped business books, I am amazed that the same errors are still being made. I guess Coach John Wooden was right when he said that “excellence is the superlative […]
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Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
Pfeffer and Sutton point out that executives often make decisions based on gut feel, what’s worked in the past, recommendations from others, and conventional wisdom.
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Employee theft costs businesses 10 times more than street crime. Small businesses are most vulnerable due to the trusting environments they create.
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