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Post by David Wyld on May 25, 2013 18:56:29 GMT -6
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Post by franklinvazquez on Jun 17, 2013 7:33:44 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
I have always believed the "best employee" is not someone with the best skills or experience but someone who is passionate about learning and someone who wants to commit to a company's success. These people will work alongside managers to make the company thrive and succeed. Managers should have the skills to nurture employees and help them grow up professionally, so they should hire employees who are willing to acquire knowledge and improve their skills. This article makes a good point regarding building up a team, which is an important element of every sales group, so a manager should recruit employees who represent a fit for the organization.
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Post by blaine on Jun 20, 2013 10:36:08 GMT -6
Throughout a lot of these articles, there is a re-occurring theme of building your team of employees. I think that this is very important for businesses to do. You have to know what your business needs in order to be successful and hire according to that. Each person brings unique skills and experience with them. It is important to build your team with all of the skills necessary to make your business run successfully.
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Post by neilthompson on Jun 22, 2013 7:49:31 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
While hiring the correct people is a very important part of any business, it is even more important to have the correct processes in place. You can hire the best group of individuals, but if you do not have a process to evaluate where your organization is currently performing against the desired outcome and adjusting, then your organization will not be successful. Processes will help you make these evaluations and adjustments within your organization and will lead to success.
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Post by jalesianelson on Jun 22, 2013 9:17:04 GMT -6
Instant MBA: Building a Business Based Only on Great People Will Set You Up For Failure I agree with this article, building a successful business does not mean you necessarily have to have the best people working for you. So what if he/she graduated from college with a 3.6 and went to Harvard. Does that mean they will drive your business to success? Does knowing this information give them immunity over others? Just because he/she has those qualities doesn’t mean they have what it takes to drive a business to success. Believe it or not, most people graduate college with a cumulative GPA of a 2.5 or higher, and once they make it into the real world the tables turn on them. In my eyes, having people who are the ‘best’ will not help drive a business toward success. However, someone with passion and the willingness to learn is the ideal candidate to complete the task. If more businesses take into account other qualities besides being the ‘best’, I guarantee about 85% of businesses will be more successful.
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Post by elvia on Jun 22, 2013 10:38:40 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
When hiring employees you are basically building your team. You want to make sure that you hire people that are passionate about the company and its brand, because it is very important that your team is dedicated to their jobs. You should never decide that you are going to hire the best of the best people to basically take over. The best of the best may not be what is best for your company. There is nothing wrong with wanting a great team of employees, but as a manager it is your responsibility to make sure that your team is always willing to learn and are ready to commit to the success of the company.
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Post by mda1287 on Jun 23, 2013 16:23:15 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
I agree with the article in that you need to know who you are hiring. If all you hire is a good person, you will not get the output from the most qualified workers. You need to hire for experience, and/or education. Education is something that is needed, the same for experience. There are a lot of people working at my place of business that are managers and do not have any education beyond high school.
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Post by melissacantrell on Jun 23, 2013 21:14:14 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set
At Raising Canes, the company has found ways to simplify each and every process so that anyone competent can do them and be successful. Every single method is thought out to a science, and if trained properly can be carried out by nearly anyone. Now this doesn't mean we try and hire just anyone, but it means we took the guess work out of relying on always finding the smartest, most capable employees. It allows the company to always insure success from the top to the bottom. If provided a limited pool of individuals to employee at any given period of time, the company would not fail.
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Post by lakeishabrooks on Jun 24, 2013 10:49:00 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
Sometimes you can build people into what you want them to be. The greatest employees will not start as the greatest. You can make and mold them and then watch them grow. That is the way that I started. When I started working for Murphy I knew nothing about that company or how to do that job but, I had a great trainer that taught me and believed in me and I became great. Now they are paying my tuition for school and are ready to advance me to the next level. So dont focus on getting the best when sometimes you can create the best.
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Post by scotthunt13 on Jun 24, 2013 15:26:34 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
I agree completely with what this article is saying. Just because you have the best people doesn't mean that your company will do the best. You need people that you can train and mold into workers that will help your company flourish. I've always been like that; I'm not the most talented guy for the job but I've always put forth the effort to become one of the best employees at each company I've worked for and it's people like that that will help your company succeed for a long time.
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Post by maryhilse12 on Jun 24, 2013 17:11:10 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: The Only Ideas Worth Pursuing Are The Ones With Validation
Validation is the key to any successful product. Having many different test markets and listening to feedback allows for product credibility. If you are getting negative responses, go back to drawing board and validate the product. The worst thing one could do is not listen to the responses and proceed with the product. This will only cause more problems down the road. Keeping an open mind, and listening to consumers response to the product will only help you better create and make adjustments that fit with what the customer wants. If unable to make adjustments to better the product, then move to another product.
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Post by leannthompson on Jun 25, 2013 7:47:12 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
Sales people deal with many customers with all different type of personalities and needs. It is important to have a team that will be able to reach and satisfy all of those different types of customers. Even if the sales person isn't a top seller, but connects with the customer and builds a great relationship with him/her that customer will refer his/her friends and family to this company because of the great experience they have had with it.
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Post by jacobthompson on Jun 25, 2013 14:07:41 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
Nice article and I agree with the author. When starting my business, I didn’t hire the “best” people; I hired people whose strengths were my weaknesses. I made sure that whoever I was interviewing wasn’t too sure of themselves because someone with that personality could easily get out of hand and try to out power you in your business. I think this article is very similar to a previous one.
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Post by harrisonrainwater on Jun 25, 2013 16:14:43 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
If you hire the best people, you don’t always receive the best outcome. A very good example of this was seen recently on my Study Abroad Trip, on of the lecturers gave a speech about how he hired an MIT graduate to be the coordinator in a very important position with his company. The new employee was very smart and knew the books inside and out, however he had no idea of how to manage his employees. I believe this is the process being described in this article. Without having the knowledge of process, it is hard to be successful.
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Post by kylekling on Jun 25, 2013 17:06:20 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Building A Business Based Only On Great People Will 'Set You Up For Failure'
Having a team full of superstars doesn't necessarily mean you will be successful. As shown by the Los Angeles Lakers this season, just because you go out and buy the best players, it doesn't mean you will get the result they were looking for. They had a team full of great players but they couldn't work well together because they were all used to being the best on their previous teams. To build a good team, you need to hire employees who optimize each others strengths and work well together in a good process.
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