Posted: Monday 22 February 2010
This Week: People – Your Greatest Asset
A strong corporate culture is more vital than ever. Not just because of the tightness in the global economy, in fact, almost despite it. Your current and future employees have more job choices than ever before, and the good people are very well informed.
Flexible working hours are regularly beating bonus size in the happiness indices. We hear less about jobs for life and more about work / life balance. Your culture is your USP – it’s how you define your company for your staff, and it’s part of how they define themselves.
From Tuesday…
Managing your greatest asset. Our panel of experts (including Mattel’s Alan Kaye, KFC’s Misty Reich and Harvard Business Review’s Tom Stewart) discuss the most vital components of a healthy, sustainable and focused corporate culture – plus the principles by which they run their careers.
From Wednesday…
How clear goals make DreamWorks (or ‘how to train a corporate dragon’). A culture of creativity and innovation don’t mean a thing without a strong technical, sales and marketing backbone. DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind Shrek, has created a world-beating mix. Dan Satterthwaite, Head of Human Resources, explains how.
From Thursday…
Building a culture. When Nokia Networks merged with Siemens Communications, people compared their two cultures to a shoal of fish and a supertanker, respectively. Hans Juergen Bill, SVP HR at the freshly minted Nokia Siemens Networks, is responsible for making them one…
I’m here all week…
He’s back – and this time it’s personnel. Chief Ninja Padraig Hyland presents his unique take on creating your own deadly competitive strategy. All together now... ‘everybody was Kung Fu strategizing...’
Really hope you enjoy the programs. Thank you to everybody for your feedback so far – I will stay in touch with progress on your interview recommendations. Any and all suggestions (for interviews, subject matter, how the site works) welcome!
Adam
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