Thought For The Day: “It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. You have little competition.” Larry Page
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“These days, and for the foreseeable future, it is likely that everybody’s job will require going above and beyond, taking on additional work or stepping up to new levels of responsibility. For this reason, we need to be careful about the precedent we set. Some of my clients who’ve been there and back would caution you against creating a culture where being asked to do more always sets up the expectation of a raise.“ - Fortune 1000: More on Hiring and Stock Price
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“At Saturday’s annual meeting of Berkshire, which owns the Buffalo News and has a big stake in Washington Post Co (WPO.N), Buffett said that as readership falls, so does the attraction of newspapers for advertisers, and for investors in the companies that publish them. “For most newspapers in the United States, we would not buy them at any price,” Buffett said. “They have the possibility of nearly unending losses. … I do not see anything on the horizon that sees that erosion coming to an end.“
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I really like the quote from Larry Page explaining that it’s important to go for “mega-ambitious dreams… you have little competition.”
With the talent pools being set up at major companies and the defense of decisions the think they’ve made, sometimes it can be a challenge to invite workers to search for a better job elsewhere, even if their perfect dream job is just around the corner. TalentSeekr seeks to overcome the “comfortable” position and allows companies looking for talent to find it among those currently comfortable but with a vision for the future. Those mega-ambitous dreams are available for the company searching to fill top positions and those that will fill those places.