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The Becky Hammon Hire Is Great; But The Glass Ceiling Still Exists

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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Tuesday, Becky Hammon, a WNBA legend, made history when the San Antonio Spurs hired her as the first full-time female assistant coach in NBA history. It is a great story of the NBA’s best franchise hiring a very qualified 37-year-old who just happens to be a woman. It is a testament to both the great basketball mind of Hammon and the innovative management style of the Spurs, a chief reason why they have won five titles in the past 15 years. And yet, the hire is bittersweet in some ways. Because while the Hammon hiring is inspiring, the numbers show …Read more »

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Want to Hire Great People? Use Ike as Your Guide

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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In 1943, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a history-altering decision to make: he had to choose his Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Whoever his pick was would have to lead the allies’ invasion into Europe, which would ultimately decide the war on the western front. He had no shortage of great generals, but whoever he picked would have to lead the other men, many of whom would likely be jealous. He had the great strategist, Gen. George Marshall, the fiery Gen. George Patton, the decorated Englishman, Bernard Montgomery, and the legendary Frenchman, Charles de Gaulle. And yet, FDR selected …Read more »

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What The Normal HR Team Looks Like

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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So what does the normal human resource department look like? Well, according to a survey by the Society for Human Research Management (SHRM), most of the people on the team will be female, college educated (and the majority with graduate degrees), with more and more new to the field and more and more specializing in strategy or hiring. Every five years, SHRM surveys a broad range of human resource professionals and then releases their findings. There are surprising trends shown in the numbers, none so as notable as the spike of female HR professionals who now populate the industry. In …Read more »

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Survey Shows Direction Of HR: Technology, Hiring, Strategy

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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A recent survey by the country’s largest HR association revealed several clear trends emerging in human resources: an increased focus on hiring, an infusion of technology and a metamorphosis into a strategic department. The Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) released its findings from a survey of more than 9,000 human resource professionals. While the report was brimming over with insightful data, perhaps the most interesting fact was what type of HR people companies are increasingly hiring. From 2007 to 2012, the amount of HR professionals in the market who were labeled recruiting specialist nearly doubled, from 6 percent to …Read more »

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HR Managers And National Team Soccer Coaches Have A Lot In Common

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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What do HR Managers and national team soccer coaches have in common? They both have a limited amount of time with each applicant/player to see who will best fit with their business/team. In the case of a national team coach, this time is during the very short international breaks in domestic competition when players return home to train and play against other countries. Similarly in the business world, HR managers have a small amount of time with each applicant to determine the shortlist of best candidates for a given position. In both cases, time is the key. Time is the …Read more »

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What Businesses Can Learn From the San Antonio Spurs

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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Sunday night, the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Miami Heat to win the NBA championship in one of the most shocking thrashings in NBA Finals history, with the Spurs winning the last three games by at least 17 points each. The title marked the fifth championship for the Spurs since 1999, and the fifth for all-time great power forward Tim Duncan and all-time great coach Greg Popovich. They beat the Heat, despite the best player in the world – Miami’s Lebron James – playing great throughout the series. The Spurs have made the playoffs every year since 1998, the same …Read more »

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The Real Secret To Bill Gates’ Success

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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Bill Gates is the richest person in the world. How? He is incredibly demanding. He is incredibly smart. He is an incredible negotiator and salesmen. He has vision. He has passion for what he does. But, if you ask him, that’s not what he points to as the secret to his success. So then what is? “The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people,” Gates has been quoted as saying. “If we weren’t still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become some mediocre company.” …Read more »

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Building an Appetite for Boiled Bones: The Amazing Marketing of Jell-O

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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Did you know Jell-O is made from boiling animal bones and skins? Credit: Steve Depolo This might be hard to believe. But there wasn’t always a market for a dessert made from the collagen produced when you boil animal bones. So Orator Woodward made one. Gelatin has been around for centuries and even the Jell-O name was around before Woodward got his hands on it in 1899, for the grand sum of $450. The problem was America didn’t know what it was or what to do with it. Woodward realized that he had a major public education campaign ahead of …Read more »

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Report: HR Takes Less Than 5 Minutes To Review A Resume

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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There is no more crucial aspect to any organization’s long-term success than hiring. Just one stat: a top-performer at a company, on average, is worth at least 14 times their salary while a terrible employee can cost 30 percent of theirs. That’s more than a $700,000 difference between just one great $50,000-a-year employee and one bad $50,000-a-year employee. Multiply that total over your whole company, and obviously it is a tremendous amount of money. And yet a recent report by the Society for Human Resource Management states that the average human resources professional spends less than five minutes reviewing a …Read more »

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Top Gun 2 And Why People Still Matter

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Karthik Hegde
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Jerry Bruckheimer, producer extraordinaire and the man behind the original Top Gun, is looking to make a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster. Of course, the movie will again revolve around the original film’s star, Tom Cruise. So what will be the plot of Top Gun 2? “The concept is, basically, are the pilots obsolete because of drones,” Bruckheimer recently told The Huffington Post. “Cruise is going to show them that they’re not obsolete. They’re here to stay.” That’s certainly not a new concept, as movies like The Terminator and I, Robot and dozens of others have brushed on it before: …Read more »

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