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
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 »
Report: HR Takes Less Than 5 Minutes To Review A Resume
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 »
Top Gun 2 And Why People Still Matter
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 »