Hints and tips:
...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...
...Ideas can come from anywhere — from the customer service agent, the mailroom or the sales rep. No one has a premium on idea generation....
...Then an actor who was the father of a friend set him up with a job in the mailroom at William Morris, the talent agency where Diller’s fellow media mogul David Geffen also got his break....
...But in the end, money and skilled staff will be found....
...Mr Emanuel was raised in Chicago in a family of high achievers: his brother, Rahm, was President Barack Obama’s first chief of staff and is now mayor of Chicago; his other brother, Ezekiel, is an oncologist...
...It is a sign of ESPN’s importance to the city that it is the largest employer, with more than 5,000 staff based there....
...William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, for example, is home to Ari Emanuel, a lean 48-year-old with short, greying hair – and the brother of White House chief of staff Rahm....
...Staff were using the company facilities to sell cosmetics, drumming up business on the telephone....
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