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Incoming ETZ CEO Alan Pett to drive the next phase of evolution

Etz

Outside of work he is an avid record collector, enjoys long country walks with his two dogs and can often be found studying the form on a weekend, as a keen horse racing enthusiast and racegoer. Albans with his wife, two teenage daughters and the family pets.

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Finding a human capital niche: Haier’s horse race

Strategic HCM

Haier models its HR strategy on a race track in which case all employees, including managers, need to keep racing, and winning, in order to access rewards and responsibilities etc. The responsibility of a manager is to establish a ‘race track’, ie. personality development opportunity, for every employee to become a SBU.

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Present, Focused & Energised: The Heart of Employee Engagement

EngagementMultiplier

Here’s an analogy our founder, Stefan Wissenbach, offered during a recent team workshop: Imagine you’re out enjoying a day at the races with some friends. You place a big wager, and the horse goes off at long odds. Now, place yourself at the rail, ticket in hand, as the horses come thundering down the homestretch.

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5 Tips to Spot A-Players in a Job Interview

TalentCulture

John has 25 horses, and he wants to pick the fastest 3 horses out of those 25. He has only 5 tracks, which means only 5 horses can run at a time, even he don’t have a stopwatch. What is the minimum number of races required to find the 3 fastest horses”? Here is a case in point: “Mr.

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The Secret to High Performance? Stay in your Box!

The Tim Sackett Project

The trick to great HR in getting great performance is to find those race horses who you can push out of the box, and they show you a whole other level of performance that you and they didn’t know existed. But if you keep pushing plow horses out on to the track in hopes of turning them into a race horse you, and they will fail.

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Running the Foot Race

Robin Schooling

He compared living our lives to running a foot race. Among the things he pointed out: When you’re running life’s foot race you’ll encounter obstacles (hills, pebbles, holes or any number of things) that may cause you to trip or fall. ” The post Running the Foot Race appeared first on Robin Schooling.

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Components of Psychological Safety: Challenger Safety

Thrive Global

They push the human race forward. I considered transportation and thought, ‘we would still be riding horses,’ then realized that even the first person who jumped on a horse would have been challenging that status quo! And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.