From: Meghan M. Biro (edited)
What drives top employees now is more than just a paycheck. Purpose is a critical driver of talent.
Linkedin looks for employees driven by purpose. Its staff includes 41% who cite self-fulfillment and a desire to serve others as key (according to the 2015 Workforce Purpose index).
Recruiters take note: people who view their work as far more than dollars or promotions perform better on all fronts (according to recent research by NYU and Imperative).
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From: Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman
You can revolutionize an industry even if you know nothing about it. You have to be able to learn about it very quickly then try to solve an existing problem with some new technology.
To do that you need people who can learn quickly. Unfortunately, experience makes people think that know everything and that makes them no good.
NOTE: I found this suprising. They said that before they started Paypal they knew nothing of the financial services industry and had to learn it from scratch.
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At a social gathering recently I ran into a psychiatrist I've met before.
He has a very nice wife and very smart kids and he, himself, stands out for being an incredible talker.
He talks very fast and he's very interesting and he gets so carried away with what he is saying that he goes on and on and eventually his wife has to cart him away.
To me, it's obvious that he's a born talker.
Here's Liel Liebovitz quoting talk show host, Andy Cohen:
Once I talked for two days straight in the backseat of my uncle Stanley’s station wagon as it careened toward the west coast of Florida.
I was probably fourteen, on a road trip with my sister Em and our cousins, and in my boredom, I came up with the brilliant idea of using Em’s hairbrush, with its clear plastic handle and black bristles, as a microphone into which I did a constant play-by-play of the trip, with no commercial breaks.
I sang pretty much every mile marker—“mile marker two-hun-dred and sev-en”—from Missouri to Georgia.
I did the weather, monitored goings-on in other cars (“Hairy man in pickup truck to our left is picking a winner! Does he have a problem?”), and interviewed the other passengers.
I “reported” on various tidbits of information I’d picked up at Camp Nebagamon that summer, like the rumor that Diana Ross was actually a bitch to the other Supremes.
I don't think that someone who wasn't born that way could do it.
I just read this of Delmore Schwartz: "He was a brilliant talker and a restless omnivorous reader."
I'm assuming that the reading gave him something to say but not every reader is a talker. You have to process what you read into clear ideas that can be readily conveyed and you have to have an urge to share these ideas regularly and for an extended period of time.
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Tony Blair's sister-in-law went on a group protest to Gaza.
Interviewed there, she claimed that "conditions in Gaza were worse than those in Darfur, where an estimated 400,000 have been killed since 2003. She also compared Gaza to a concentration camp".
Yet she was photographed by BBC looking healthy and happy in a well-stocked grocery store.
No one expects Gaza to be a paradise right now but comparisons with Darfur and Nazi camps warn you that this person, while she looks and speaks like a normal, modern, educated woman, is a bit flighty.
I post this not to publicize matters in the middle east but to point out something about candidates.
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Margaret Graziano says:
If you act like a career consultant, candidates will trust you.
So, forget about the job you are trying to fill for 45 minutes and get to know the candidate well. Just like a career consultant would. Then have a great sell.
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David Brooks makes Obama's errors look worse than I thought.
It was inevitable that the period of “Yes We Can!” deification would come to an end. It was not inevitable that Obama would now look so vulnerable.Back in Iowa, Barack Obama promised to be something new — an unconventional leader who would confront unpleasant truths, embrace novel policies and unify the country. But....
....the aura around Obama has changed. Furiously courting Democratic primary voters and apparently exhausted, Obama has emerged as a more conventional politician and a more orthodox liberal.
He sprinkled his debate performance Wednesday night with the sorts of fibs, evasions and hypocrisies that are the stuff of conventional politics.
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Skills
1. Recognize when the customer needs assistance
2. Active Listening to discover customer needs;
ask questions before pitching a solution
3. Recognize Buying Signals; knowing when to close and when not to
Personality
4. Emotional Resilience: able to recover from rejection;
not take things personally
5. Perseverance: able to keep focusing on your goals
when the success rate is low
6. Self Starter: can work in an unstructured environment;
don't need someone telling you what to do and how to do it
7. Mastering Luck: recognition that you have to put yourself
in the right position to get lucky
8. Culture Match: share the values and behaviour of your company;
otherwise you won't be happy
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According to Kathleen Begley, geezers born between 1945 and 1960 are going to be hot candidates by 2013 because the boomers don't have anyone to replace them.
Why Boomers aren't losers:
Common belief has it that once you're 50 you have a closed mind. Apparently, however, that's not necessarily true.
Workers in their 50s, 60s, and 70s don't need time for child care. But they do want time off for leisure activities. So they might be best as seasonal employees wintering in Florida.
White-collar baby boomers are computer literate. They're just not completely up to date on the latest web 2.0 applications.
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What do the generations have in common? They all lie.
Here's Hillary lying about Bosnia. (It's pretty funny)
And here's Hitch on Obama's lies about his church not being controversial and not being aware of his pastor's odd views.
You often hear it said, of some political or other opportunist, that he would sell his own grandmother if it would suit his interests. But you seldom, if ever, see this notorious transaction actually being performed
And here's The Chicago Tribune revealing that Barack's youth was not quite the way he presented it in his memoir. He claimed, for instance, that he became fluent in the Indonesian language in six months when, in fact, he struggled with it the entire time he lived there.
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Because they already know the score.
A Boomerang is someone who worked at your company before, left, and wants to return.
Jenny Klimas argues that companies should make a special effort to attract them. Why? Because they already know everything about the firm and you know everything about them.
She claims that they are going to be very loyal after having discovered that the grass is not greener on the other side. But, of course, this might simply be a marriage of convenience.
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