When a position opens at a company, often a hiring manager’s first instinct is to contact the recruiter with a job spec and demand to see a cavalcade of resumes within the next day or so. Then reality hits and we’re reminded about that pesky War for Talent, specifically at more senior levels, where leaders are in short supply.
Yesterday, Facebook released their Q2 earnings, and one of the numbers I’ve seen bandied about this morning is the daily time the company claims users are on the site: 40 minutes (more than double the metric it shared last year).
In that time, you could:
Cook a healthy meal.
Wo...
The early 2000s saw an interesting race in the energy drink market. Monster, Rockstar, Red Bull, and many others poured into supermarkets, gas stations, convenience stores, and college campuses. Forget the "traditional" Mountain Dew, or MD's now defunct but crazier cousin Surge......
We all have aired complaints on social media, in one way or another. Perhaps a restaurant provided a less-than-stellar experience that prompted us to reward them with a scathing Facebook review. Or, maybe a shipping company damaged a package and we posted a quick photo on Instagram. Maybe we had to ...
What impact do cultural differences have on the success of a product? Some people feel that culture beats strategy every time. No matter how good your strategy is in your market, if you haven’t modified your product to cater to the culture, the product will not succeed. This is the case not just i...
