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3 Ways To Energize Your Recruitment Plan

Tim Milburn

Noah’s Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by professionals.”. That means it’s time to put your team together. You need to put a team together. Encourage, praise, and support them as they join the team. List out the tasks and prioritize what your team can realistically accomplish in a year.

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Why Seclusion Is the Enemy of Creativity

Harvard Business Review

He spent eleven years holed up, painting Christ on Judgement Day, Noah’s ark, and Creation itself. Direct reports have their own teams to worry about. Burning the candle on both ends even though they know exhaustion is a handicap, then reacting to difficult situations with anger when their team needs someone level-headed.

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business Review

But in 2003, the company didn’t realize the mega hit it was about to have with the Noah’s Ark play set. The most important step is having in-depth willingness-to-pay discussions with target customers long before the product development team begins to draw up the engineering plans. How do you so?