Showing posts with label Virgin. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

VIRGIN FACTS

Invaluable advice, incredible truth and inspirational guide from a dyslexic

Sir Richard Branson, a man who built an over eight billion dollar conglomerate from scratch in eight different sectors, and one whose brand Virgin tried to take on world’s biggest super brands. Branson now provides a true, candid, remarkable and original guide to success both in business and life, through his book Business Stripped Bare.

As someone who never went to a University, Sir Richard has radical views on education. Committed to excellence and expertise in business, he argues in Business Stripped Bare why some University degrees can’t be finished more quickly, why students are left to their own devices much of the time without direction from tutors, lecturers, and professors, and why entrepreneurial thinking is not a part of the curriculum in universities and colleges. In entrepreneurial business, a conservative mind-set will be hamstring, defensiveness will weaken and a failure to face facts will kill. Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures. Branson believes that a great deal of entrepreneurship can be taught, and that we desperately need to teach it, as we together confront the huge global challenges of the following centuries.

Sir Richard lays emphasis on innovation and illustrates how on April Fool’s Day 2008, the launch of Virgle was announced, a partnership between Virgin and Google, looking at creating a community on Mars in the next 15 years. Virgle was advertising for volunteers to travel on a one-way ticket to Mars. It was concocted over dinner at Necker and is about the creation of a human colony on Mars.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

‘One best way to a perfect team?

Incentives, rewards are passé. The new way to boost performance, believes an ad agency, is providing employees with an ‘open’ environment!

While we figure out how our ancestors made the best of naturally available ‘accessories’ like leaves, stones and bones, it isn’t difficult to imagine that for our ape ancestors, the body hair was enough to protect them from the temperature differences. But would you believe us if it was said that perhaps people in the prehistoric era or the great apes could perform their tasks better as a result of being stark naked? Well, a new experiment certainly suggests so! When a design and marketing company, onebestway in UK, wasn’t performing too well and was on the lookout for a way to improve its employee performance, they were “approached by Virgin and asked to take part in an hour-long documentary, filmed over a one week period in June 2009. The objective of the film was not to be naked, but to explore the possibility that they became so bonded as a team that they would be comfortable working naked!”

But does working without a stitch actually boost morale of employees? “It doesn’t boost morale, but it does create a better team. We are closer and we work more quickly because we now feel we have nothing to hide from each other. We speak openly to each other whereas in the past we may have kept things inside, hidden. Additionally, we now have more fun! We have shared something unique and fun so, in a way, the morale is better because we are generally more upbeat and proud of who we are and of what we do,” says Michael Owen, Senior Account Manager and Managing Director, onebestway. If we were to imagine the same experiment being conducted closer home, surely there will be very few takers for this rather radical (to say the least) experiment. But weren’t the employees at onebestway apprehensive too? “Yes there were apprehensions but – to be crystal clear – there was absolutely no convincing and encouraging going on at all,” continues Michael. “The nakedness was never anything more than an exciting and rather scary option. A goal yes, but not one that anyone was encouraged to do beyond what they would naturally want to do for themselves, personally. On the last day of work (with clothes on), people were full of excitement.


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