Month: February 2025

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Research and project team – Principle No. 2: develop your products gradually

Principle No. 2 of the Beatles’ success is: Develop your products and services gradually, and give your 100th customer as much attention and enthusiasm as your first. Most rock bands consistently play the same kind of music, and the songs are similar. The Beatles took a different path. From album to album they changed the nature of their songs, and in many ways. They came up with new song themes, melodic lines, introduced new arrangements and previously unused instruments. Albums with such disparate songs as “Yesterday” and “Revolution” sold more than a million copies in a decade. The Beatles, in

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Research and project team – Principle No. 1: schedule time for the team to get to know each other

It’s been 19 years since the famous article by A. Sobel, who analyzed the success of the Beatles from the side of team management and the products that this team can deliver. In the following weeks, we wanted to remind you of the 4 principles that the author included then in an article titled The Beatles Principles, and which are still of great value to managers of research and project teams. Principle No. 1: Schedule time for team members to get to know each other and get to know each other during joint trial assignments before they have to work

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Are references important in the labor market? Part 2

In the previous blog post, we discussed the general feature of references in the labor market. Now 2 three points we will present how to use them in practice. First, it is important to realize what purpose references have. Usually, their purpose is to provide information about the employee’s skills, knowledge and personal qualities to the next employer. A reference from an HR department or supervisor may also give an indication of what positions a person is suitable for and what work experience he or she has. In addition, references should include general information, such as length of employment, job

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Are references important in the labor market? Part 1

References in Polish business practice are associated with a document that is important and usually carries positive content. Therefore, they are quite often used as an element of creating a company’s image when it has fulfilled the arrangements made with another company. Customer references then hang in a highly visible place testifying to the reliability of the addressee. Despite the adoption in Polish companies of many customs from the United States and Western European countries, references are still rarely issued for departing employees. From a legal point of view, in Poland, a certificate of employment is sufficient for a person

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