It’s all about the people!
Katherine Rutherford
I’ve just been away on a lovely holiday and fully loaded my Kindle before departure. I randomly downloaded Branson’s ‘Business Stripped Bare’ and within minutes I was absolutely enthralled. The way he uses stories to express how he built business such as Virgin Money and Virgin Blue in Australia are engaging. It’s interesting that the company ethos is to keep the businesses in the Virgin Group small (something that I had never considered) so they are agile, staff stay motivated and the company is able to adapt to market conditions more quickly. This has definitely made the Group stay above water and thrive in these sometimes economically challenging times.
As you would expect, he adds the people element, with much of the book leaning on stories of individuals he has met along the way. I especially liked this style because I am in the people business and generally a little nosey! The examples he uses are diverse - from a woman he lent money to buy a sewing machine to start her business, to Nelson Mandela. It’s fascinating stuff, showing that building relationships with people has certainly led to great success. Sometimes our candidates question us on why we want to meet them face to face, well to be quite frank it’s just the same as Branson - it’s how we’ve built our business at Direct Recruitment and it’s much more successful for both parties in the long run.
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Law have to be on money power
Law have to be on money power (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-10-26 07:59 2010-10-26 07:59:20.0Law have to be ashore money powerlaw,right11011502From Chinese Press2@webnews/enpproperty-->
Vested interests have been using their power and money to violate people's rights, making a mockery of the social array for of the flaw among the allowable and governance systems, says an story in Yangtze Daily, excerpts:
Yu Haibo, a 33-year-old billionaire of Chongqing metropolis marshaled hundreds of henchmen to block roads and punch policemen subsequently his unlawful buildings were demolished on Sept 30. Li Qiming, 22, knocked down two amenable students of Hebei University and drove to a room to encounter with his girlfriend on Oct 22. When he was stopped along angry witnesses he screeched is his dad was Li Gang, a agent adviser of a regional public security office One of the students he knocked down died and the other was seriously injured.
The rich have been using their money and power for long to shun the verdict Yu and Li are examples of the wealthy and strong misusing their might to violate the decree Such people feel safe among the knowledge namely they have strong backings to aid them acquire amongst anybody difficulty They deem money and power can take consideration of all the problems anywhere surrounded the nation
The government has to doing instantly to amend the situation and assure social fairness and equality The unfairness within funds distribution and the absence of a counterbalance opposition regional decision-makers are the fundamental reasons as the infectious corruption and violations of the judgment along the marrow
(China Daily 10/26/2010 page9)
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