"...out-learn the competition"
HEADLINES:
Europe's Challenge -- European companies face the challenge of increasing revenues and profits in flat economies (you've read about Greece, Spain, and Portugal) while facing the prospect of international competitors entering their own markets. The answer is going global and getting lean -- getting in your competitors markets (China, India, Middle East, Eastern Europe, US, and Latin America), with the most competitive workforce, before they get in yours. This is the focus of the Growth Summit Europe 15 June Barcelona -- more info below.
Are you Hiring in 2010? Then tune-in to the #1 ranked hiring guru, Geoff Smart, author of "Who: The A Method for Hiring." His LIVE online seminar is Thursday, May 13, noon -- 1:30pm ET. Geoff's book is still the #1 ranked hiring book on Amazon along with his father's book Topgrading. Here's a link for more information and to register. $99/individual; $495 company license (unlimited browsers).
90% Guaranteed -- The Who/Topgrading methodology is the only approach guaranteed to get you the right person 90% of the time, whereas conducting a "feel good" interview gets you 40%; testing gets you 50%; and the standard behavior-based interview gets you the right person only 60% of the time. Even if you've known the person for quite some time (which ups your odds of success), it's still critical to conduct a Topgrading interview. I'll share my own story, during the webcast, of how Topgrading saved me from hiring a friend. You can't afford to get these key hiring decisions wrong! And the Who methodology provides tools for recruiting and retaining as well.
Growth Summit India -- Hermann Simon, the Peter Drucker/Jim Collins of growth firms and author of my favorite business book of all time, Hidden Champions of the 21st Century, will be in India next week. Joining him is über-strategist Kaihan Krippendorf, author of Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile: Use the 36 Ancient Chinese Strategies to Seize the Competitive Edge. He's also the author of The Way of Innovation: Master the Five Elements of Change to Reinvent Your Products, Services, and Organization. Spend a day with this powerful duo Tuesday, May 11 Bangalore; May 12 Bombay.
Europe's Blue Ocean -- back to Europe, European companies face the largest "blue ocean" opportunity to face firms in the history of business -- an additional 1 billion consumers moving into the middle class (just east of Europe) this coming decade which will drive all markets: consumer, business, and industrial. This emphasizes the need to "Go Global." But they'll need to have world class competitive processes, thus the importance of focusing on "Getting Lean."
Growth Summit Europe -- Join us in beautiful Barcelona 15 June for our first Growth Summit Europe and then spend a couple additional days participating in the World Innovation Summit. Keynoting the Growth Summit entitled "Going Global, Getting Lean":
| Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and President of The Wiseman Group based in Silicon Valley. She's the former VP of Oracle University -- from U.S. | |
| Hermann Simon, author of Hidden Champions of the 21st Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders and Founder/Chairman of Simon, Kucher & Partners -- from Germany | |
| Guy Parsons, co-founder of the Lean Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founder of Value Stream Mapping -- from U.S. | |
| Verne Harnish, author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do To Increase the Value of Your Fast Growth Firm and Founder of Gazelles Inc. -- from Barcelona |