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...It is the latest bold transaction for Emanuel, who has worked his way up from the mailroom at the CAA talent agency to become one of the most powerful people in Hollywood....
...When he was offered the job of full-time mailroom supervisor, he dropped out....
...Staff submit to compulsory aptitude and personality tests — unapologetically meritocratic tools for identifying hungry, and often cheap, talent — which Mr Smith boasts have helped roofers and mailroom employees...
...The ruling reinforced the legal liability faced by employees involved in securities offerings and bolstered the US securities regulator’s power after a pair of adverse Supreme Court decisions in recent years...
...It had 250 employees in 1995; these days it has more than 2,000....
...For companies not in the business of creativity, university graduates continue to make up the bulk of new employees....
...Ideas can come from anywhere — from the customer service agent, the mailroom or the sales rep. No one has a premium on idea generation....
...Now the company has more than 400 employees, of whom about 180 are agents, spread between offices in Beverly Hills and New York....
...Fourteen of the winning companies have 10 employees or fewer, while 133 have fewer than 250 employees. At the smallest end, Metal Events and Hydrate for Health have two employees each....
...Executives must also take a lead role in engendering an organisational culture shift that changes the way employees think about data....
...After the deal, they slowly took control of the combined company, filling key positions with trusted lieutenants and winning support from the remaining William Morris employees....
...The irony is that most American job discrimination laws do not cover domestic employees....
...“The boardroom is like the mailroom. It is all the same because people are people. In the mailroom, people can get emotional and overwhelmed by their personal agenda and deal in an underhanded way....
...In fact, they are often the last people you would expect: when most people think of this type of internal fraud, they think in terms of a worker in the mailroom running a small-scale scam, or a salesman...
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