Hands Up…Who’s Hiring?
"Mike, look, the post office is hiring,” Bob tipped his head at the encased poster, “but you're past the age limit." "Hey Bob. Yeah, you wouldn't get away with a recruitment ad like that these days." Mike smiled.
"Mike, look, the post office is hiring,” Bob tipped his head at the encased poster, “but you're past the age limit." "Hey Bob. Yeah, you wouldn't get away with a recruitment ad like that these days." Mike smiled.
That day, my dad gave me the tool I needed to successfully check the pressure of tires. On the same day, he also gave me the greatest tool for customer service. “Aaron, the best way to make better tips is to stop thinking about them.”
“Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products...”
You need qualified, experienced guys & gals who also have the work ethic and cultural fit that great companies like yours insist on. And one thing about those people is they're almost never looking for a job.
The blind spot of most business owners occurs directly at EBITDA Net Profits. We lose sight of the long-game for what we have right in front of us.
Unfortunately, the tendency is for “verification” to feel intrusive and negative. As if you’re trying to catch someone doing it wrong. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Mike Slover and Mike Whitmire explain what felt kind of broken within the company and how that was having an impact on the results they were having.
There’s no such thing as a perfectly balanced company where every function is staffed and supplied at the exact right amount.
My curiosity first peaked when I heard the phrase, “in any organization, culture eats strategy for lunch”. After 3 years of research on the subject following the scientific method, I’ve constructed and tested a hypothesis that I believe to be true.
While there’s no denying that we love to complain through Twitter and Facebook, people do talk about the great customer experiences they have.
A great branding campaign crystalizes the company’s self-identity as much for the owner and his team as to the public at large.
Finders are your hunters. They take a surgical approach to finding the right prospects that need their specific solution. Minders are your nurturers. They take great satisfaction in caring for those that they know and have built a relationship with.
Remember: the people closest to the job have the best ideas on improving it. Are you listening to them?