The hiring process is the most important function that an organization can undertake. People brought onboard can turbocharge a company or drive it into the ground. Zappo’s, the online show company, takes a very unorthodox view of the hiring process. They will train you, and offer to pay you to quit at the end of [...]
Browsing Posts published in December, 2008
A lot has been written about how GM and their Detroit brethren Chrysler and Ford are a bunch of dummies. The news that they all took separate jets to plead for a bailout does not make them look any smarter. This post over at graduated taste is awesome. It talks about what Richard Branson, one [...]
The Japanese government is forcing their industry to modernize and become more efficient in exchange for helping them with a handout. The government responded two weeks later with the $700 million aid package that promised to pay 90 percent of fuel price increases since December, but only to fishermen who found ways to reduce their [...]
