weeds are good plants - neil morrison irecruit 2014 presentation
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W E E D S A R E N O T B A D P L A N T S … . .@ N E I L M O R R I S O N , P E N G U I N R A N D O M H O U S E
#weeds
W H O A M I ?
• Neil Morrison - Group HR Director, Penguin Random House UK and International Companies
• Possibly the stupidest job title ever
• Blog at www.change-effect.com
• Tweet as @neilmorrison
• Get called lots of other things in between…..
P E N G U I N R A N D O M H O U S E I N N U M B E R S
• Origins date back to 1838
• 10,000 people in 5 continents
• 250 independent imprints publishing 15,000 titles
• 70 Nobel prizes and 120 Pulitzer prizes
• Formed in 2013
H A S N E I L T O TA L LY L O S T
T H E P L O T ?
W E E D S ?
CAN BE BEAUTIFUL
WE FOCUS TOO MUCH ON
NOT THE RIGHT FIT
ORGANISATIONS ARE SYSTEMS
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
B A R R I E R S E X I S T E V E R Y W H E R E
M O V E M E N T M AT T E R S
I N T H E R I G H T P L A C E , E V E R Y T H I N G I S B E A U T I F U L .
T H A N K Y O U
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