What are the pressing global, industry and societal issues that business leaders must address in the wake of the “Great Recession”?

Stephen Green, Chairman, HSBC, United Kingdom
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, USA; Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business
Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business
Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer, Google, USA; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010
Wang Jianzhou, Chairman and Chief Executive, China Mobile Communications Corporation, People’s Republic of China

Chaired by
Robert Greenhill, Managing Director and Chief Business Officer, World Economic Forum

Duration : 1:3:27

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Duration : 0:5:19

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Duration : 0:10:58

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Duration : 0:6:56

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Duration : 0:11:20

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http://www.myownbusiness.org

Session 1 – Evaluating Business Potential

Question:
“You have some wonderful credentials including being a CPA, an MBA and being president of a large company. Were these credentials helpful to you when you purchased your own business?”
Maureen Costello
Wholesale Distributor

Topics covered in this video:
Business credentials, skills, experience, mistakes, employees, hiring, budgeting

Transcript:
Very much. One of the things I learned over the years is that for anybody to be successful in any role you have to have ability to begin with and then you need education and training and experience and probably most of all the willingness to do whatever it is the function is that you are going to take on. My educational experience certainly helped prepare me because it gave me an overview of what kinds of things happen in a business and I got some basic accounting skills which are really critical to a business. That’s probably the lifeblood of a business; making sure you have cash and that you know how the cash is coming in and going out. But the experience is invaluable and everybody is going to make mistakes in life, in the job.

Your employees are going to make mistakes. You can’t expect them to be perfect. Those mistakes are going to cost you money and you almost have to budget for that. I was able to make my mistakes on somebody else’s dime which was probably good for me, maybe not so good for them, but that is part of the cost of doing business. Now you as the owner of a business are going to have to accept the fact that when you bring somebody in new, part of the cost of hiring a new employee and training them is that they are going to make mistakes that cost you money and you may as well budget for it. But I had the opportunity to make those mistakes before I bought a business and that prevented me from making a lot of mistakes after I purchased the business.

Duration : 0:1:48

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Duration : 0:11:56

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Lyrics:
Depleting the need of thieves to care
They rise on Degradations wings
I’ve seen, we’ve all seen
We have seen the coming price for our
Self-righteous greed
A cry from earth for changes
A silent plea
Deciphered in a manner
Lost in failure
We’ve left in-numerous numbers
Failing into tears
They’ve lost their lives
We’re on a killing spree
Killing spree
The blood of tortured souls stains us
The blood of tortured souls stain me
I can’t bear it
We must see where this life’s leading
Kill these deadly habits
We must see where this lies leading
Then we’ll listen, then we’ll listen to a cry from earth for changes
A silent plea
Deciphered in a manner
Lost in failure
We’ve whored this world for riches
And we soon shall see
We’ve lost our lives
What good is all their money when
There’s nothing left to buy?

Duration : 0:6:0

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www.thebusinessofclimatechange.com

Duration : 0:45:54

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Duration : 0:6:21

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