I'd like to build a superteam. I'd like the superteam to come to me.
What you manage in business is people
I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.
The Adia application has been co-created by the Adecco Group and the global technology leader, Infosys. It covers the full cycle of recruiting, matching, invoicing, and payrolling with state-of-the-art functionalities such as feedback and rating and geolocalization.
Whatever we can't develop internally - and nobody develops everything internally - you have to be able to trade and sign free agents.
When I first opened Milk Bar, I was also making desserts for the Momofuku restaurants. I will say that by day three or day four, I realized that operating a bakery was so different from operating a restaurant.
One of our six key strategic priorities was the reinforcement of all professional staffing and solutions business.
How can I run an agency at the same time?
Commenting on the time he had to spend testifying before Congress:
We asked for workers. We got people instead.
We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.
I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.
Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?
One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
Every coach desires to bring in his own support staff.
It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.
I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.
Holiday hiring is only useful if you get the right people, and the consensus among HR professionals is that the most consistent and efficient means of finding good people is to use word of mouth. Namely, this is because focusing on referrals means that only people who are already within your network will apply.
I worked for a temp agency called Manpower.
At Sale we're an up and coming club, wanting to draw bigger crowds. You can't just run everything, though, you need a balance.
If the team needs me to recruit somebody, I'll be here. I'll be doing that.
Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.