Category: Promotion

Seeing or experiencing a winning team is always an interesting exercise, and it does not matter if we are looking at a soccer team, a family team or a company where people actually work together to achieve something spectacular.
No matter what your personal position is, you can definitely contribute to improving a team. The most basic features for any team builder are contribution and coordination. The higher your position is, the more important it is that you know what makes or breaks a team. A really great leader is always a team builder.
We hope this issue will inspire you to further improve your team and keep building it. If done right, it gets to be more effective, more remunerative and a lot more fun as well.

Wishing you all the best,

Mårten Runow
CEO Performia International

Often neglected rules for a company, manager and HR manager

We offer a great opportunity, an interesting position, a very good salary and even better conditions, but applicants will not choose us anyway. What else do they want? It’s not good to lose a candidate because he accepted another offer. But are the interesting candidates really just looking for better conditions? Seldom. There are several more prosaic reasons why they choose another company. Understand them and you will immediately have more skilled people.

I recently spoke with an acquaintance of mine who was looking for a new job opportunity and was in the middle of negotiating with several employers. All three companies wanted him a lot. So I was very interested in what his decision would be based on, and where he would end up. It was not so surprising that the area of work was important to him. There was one company that was “dear to his heart”, a company that he considered an inspiring brand that he highly valued as a user. Next there was a company where he really liked the product and the more he looked at it, the more enthusiastic he became. The third company was “good” in terms of what they produced, but according to him “they still give good money”. Because money wasn’t everything to him, the choice wasn’t so clear.
While he still hesitated, I asked him what went on in his head when he thought about it all. He started to tell me about the course of the hiring process, the approach of HR managers and meetings with management. Where there was no lack of money, there was a lack of humility and a human approach from a potential senior. Maybe he was really a great guy, but that doesn’t mean that his somewhat arrogant and superior attitude will dazzle anyone. This offer was out because my friend simply couldn’t imagine working with such a person, lots of money or not. And the personnel department of that company did a standard good job and, in addition to this, his rejection cost them, I believe, some worries.
So, what do candidates care about? And can only personnel or HR managers always acquire and retain an employee? This is precisely what we will look into here.
When we create TEAM it is not the same as planting a flower bed. Flowers do not need to be won over by ideas and cooperation; they just need to fulfill their life needs. Growing candidates is different. You want to show them what might excite them and what would motivate them to join you right away, but at the same time you want to vet them and you want to be able to choose the best one. It seems a little schizophrenic, but it doesn’t have to be. You just need to be clear about how to quickly evaluate the candidates and then how not to discourage those you have already chosen.
That’s why I have some rules for you that you could follow so that everything works well, and you get the best ones for your team. They don’t get discouraged then.

RULES FOR THE WHOLE COMPANY

Support good employees in the company. I don’t mean the clichés that are well known on the different job portals, but the fact that productive workers should feel safe and perceive that their good work is valued by the company. An integral part of this is to adequately reward great work.
Does your company create a valuable and high-quality product or service? Then you are “safe” in this respect. For the best employees, your company will definitely be more interesting if your company’s product is useful, valuable and of high quality. It is not simply a “money factory” or a dubious way of making money based, for example, on the misfortune or ignorance of others. In that case, no method of hiring executive people would work well.

RULES FOR THE HR DEPARTMENT

Fast, pleasant and honest dealings are appreciated by every candidate, and since the HR department often creates the applicant’s first experience with your company, this is quite important. For example, responding to all non-advancing /qualifying candidates should be the standard. An unbiased approach to a candidate, and having a genuine interest in him, is something that can convince him that he is in the right place.
Responsible and professional selection with a screening of key parameters delivers the whole importance of things. It should also not be forgotten that the candidate does not know the company standards and the process tenders, so it is good to be prepared and explain them to him patiently.
Don’t compromise, don’t try to please at all costs and don’t be afraid to reject the candidate. These are certainly signs of one’s firm integrity, which is important for gaining natural respect with both candidates and colleagues from the rest of the company.

The basic idea is that the manager should look for potential in the candidate during the hiring process, and not only shortcomings

RULES FOR MANAGERS

For a manager at any level, if they really value the work of everyone in the team and also the work of HR, it will not be difficult for them to find a new employee. The basic idea is that the manager should look for potential in the candidate during the hiring process, and not only shortcomings. If the candidate is qualified and preselected by HR, then the manager should put aside his “technical approach” to people.
Are the managers themselves clear about whom they are looking for, and do they also make this clear to your HR department? Thinking “it’s common knowledge” can be a big mistake. A change in requirements or a major change in job content can discourage candidates. Sufficient communication between HR and candidates, and managers and HR, is a must today. Overall, the recruiting process should have a high priority. It is a fact that we do not have time to spare, but it is also evident that the manager tends to devote the greatest amount of time to problematic (often poorly selected) employees. So, the time invested in quality selection pays off many times over.
A manager who is looking for candidates for his team should be open during interviews; he should take an interest in candidates and get them excited about their future position. The “World Champion” game might appeal to a few individuals, but if you’re after honest and work-oriented candidates, then be yourself. Tell them what you are trying to achieve, and where you would like to move the team or the company. What style of working with people has or has not paid off for you. Don’t forget that the manager of the potential newcomer should mention the reason why he is doing the job. It is possible that “the right ones” will share his reason with him.
If the company, HR dept. and managers have the right habits, they do not put any barriers between themselves and new skilled employees. And that will increase the chances that the candidates you select will choose you.

When you want to build a successful team, you need to know how to differentiate between those who will help you and those who will cause more problems. That is why we have prepared this section, along with a detailed compilation of what kind of people you can normally meet in each team. For each team member, you can find out how to recognize him, and how he or she manifests at work in an average team. Do you recognize any of your colleagues?

Type D – Suppressive person

2,5%
Description: He secretly stops positive actions, creates problems and stops where there are none, and hinders others
with his actions. His contribution is destructive.
How it shows at work: He often tries to create an impression of himself as being indispensable, even though his personal output and influence are more negative than positive. He is often initially trusted by key people in the company until he is “detected”.
How you detect him at the interview: He is uncomfortable with questions about previous results – he diminishes the importance of measurable results or is critical about people he has worked with. He can sometimes make you feel like a fool. If he succeeds with that in a short interview, imagine what he could do if you give him a year…
What to expect when you hire him: In the best case, great worries for everyone in the team, and in the worst case, the disintegration of the team and eventually the company.

Type C2 – PTS – Potential trouble source

17,5%
Description: performance is hard to predict. He is prone to mistakes and accidents. Superiors often do not know how to deal with him. His contribution can swing from good to bad.
How it shows at work: He can sometimes achieve good results, but later he could ruin everything with some stupid mistakes. He can surprise others with “moods” and he is often a candidate for replacement.
How you detect him at the interview: The results are like a rollercoaster and so is his career. Things around him are often complicated, tangled or contradictory. He is prone to have bad luck.
What to expect when you hire him: Unpredictability and sudden upsets mixed with good work. Often generates more grey hair for the boss and trouble for co-workers.

Type A – Performer

20%
Description: Works independently to achieve results. He is interested in efficiency and success; he is willing to work hard.
How it shows at work: He takes responsibility, comes up with ideas and moves things forward. He can be your source for a big part of the team’s production.
How you detect him at the interview: He normally answers with interest, knows well what his result was, and has no problem going into the details. He is interested in his and his team’s results. References and proofs are easy to get and verify.
What to expect when you hire him: A big relief and a feeling that something works even without you having to initiate it. Things around him are speeding up and he generates results. He has a positive influence on the environment.

Type C1 – Unwilling Doer

60%
Description: For average performance, he needs to be controlled. At times he can be quite passive. He has a slow pace and normally lacks initiative.
How it shows at work: When he has someone constantly pushing him, he will do whatever it takes. When the boss is not there, he tends to slow down and contributes less. He seldom does anything extra.
How you detect him at the interview: He is not very interested in answering questions. He will say what is needed, but it is obvious that he does not care much about his results. He doesn’t remember, and he normally doesn’t understand what you’re talking about when you ask for results.
What to expect when you hire him: Constant attention to have him contributing. Little natural interest in his own work and performance.

Type B – Willing Doer

60%
Description: He is active and not afraid of work. Under good leadership, he improves and becomes more efficient. He helps.
How it shows at work: When he knows what to do, he works actively. He lets himself be directed, and his performance is stable and can improve when he is inspired.
How you detect him at the interview: He is willing to answer and even if he can’t name the product exactly, he normally tries to list activities or partial achievements. He seldom has any problem providing references.
What to expect when you hire him:With decent management you get help and relief. Good and stable performances. Not always high ambition to go into leadership positions.

Finding good people is not easy, but Judit Nyulas says that if employees share the same values as managers and the company, it is beneficial for all of them

Judit Nyulas graduated in mathematics and physics at high school, and in systems engineering at the Technical University. She and her husband started their careers in her father-in-law’s family business, where she had to do a bit of everything. Her husband established the Fomco company in 2002 and she joined him in 2003. At that time they had around 15 employees; today there are 260 and they are still growing. They have been using the Performia system for about 10 years, and it has been helping them tremendously in the selection, integration and management of staff.

What is the purpose of your company and the reason why you exist?

The idea was first to provide a livelihood, and then later on to provide security and a livelihood for the people and their families who work there. And then, as we grew, we wanted to do something for the community, for the city, to do what we could to embrace young people, to train them, to foster innovation.

We have nine companies in total. In automotive we have three companies (GPS fleet tracking, export of GPS equipment, and sales of tachographs for trucks), then a group called Wellbeing which deals with development and real estate. This includes property development, a furniture factory, and green energy – where there are another three companies.

At the moment, each company has its own objectives. If I had to put it in general terms, I would say: security. We want every client company to consider us as an honest partner. Trust is important for us: to have an effective and strong relationship with our employees and business partners.
We want to be role models, in terms of culture, behaviour, organization, innovative thinking and the way we do business. We put a strong emphasis on quality. Our companies aim to be national leaders or in the Top 3, to offer professional and affordable services, to inspire other companies, to build communities, and always to focus on development, innovation and continuous learning.

What’s the driving force that keeps you and your husband, who is also your business partner, moving forward in this huge game?

I cannot speak for my husband. He always needs a challenge, he needs to innovate, he needs to introduce some new technology.
What motivates me at the same time is a huge responsibility – to support 200 people and their families. When I see how dedicated they are, how much they do, and when they get stuck and I can support them and see them soar afterwards, for me that’s the biggest motivation and makes me feel it’s worth doing.

Is there a recipe for how to manage a company of this size successfully and in the long term and retain good-quality, skilled people?

We as owners started something, and when the company reached a certain level we had to admit that we had to hand over the management to someone else.
It is one thing to innovate, to find solutions and to push the cart forward, but to maintain it and to develop the organization is a completely different thing.
That’s the moment when we appointed a CEO in charge. That was a huge milestone in our life. It was the first step because if we didn’t take it, we would not go up as a company but would start sliding down.
The second part is the culture. Without an internal culture, without values, we would not be able to achieve the goals. We put a lot of emphasis on that.
And the third part are the people.

Especially in larger companies, we see that managers and the HR department find it difficult to work together, especially when selecting new staff. To what extent do you think management and HR should work together?

To a great extent!
This was one of our main objectives for last year. We organized trainings and workshops to make managers aware of what was happening at hiring. We also trained managers and now middle managers on HR topics to help them understand why we select candidates in this way, and why they should be patient and wait for a good candidate.
But it’s not just about selection! It was very difficult to implement the Schooling Plan. Besides their operational tasks, this is extra work for the managers. They see this as very bureaucratic.
In our company, new employees have a framework folder where there are processes and policies, and an internal company-map. The newly hired are presented to colleagues, there is a code of ethics, a commercial code, where they are located in the company’s organizational chart, etc.
After the first or second month, the CEO also talks to the new people. The content of these interviews is given to the manager and the CEO. Managers should report back on what they have done to improve what the employee has noticed, or suggested.

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middle managers on HR topics tho help them
kunderstand why we select candidates in this way.

Judging by the development of your company, you are doing something right. You are hiring the right people, as a rule. How do you attract the right people to your company these days?

Credibility. And with PR, but real PR and internal culture – values, frameworks, processes… We are not yet where we want to be, but I see that we have put a lot of emphasis on that in the last year and it has paid off. I’ve set a target that by 2025, if we want to hire someone, there will be a bit of a queue, waiting for a vacancy or a new post to appear.
When we do internal employee satisfaction surveys, satisfaction has improved in all but one company. And where it hasn’t improved, we know why. When we ask a candidate in an interview why they paid attention to our job ad, and why they applied to us, at least 60% of them say it’s because they have a friend who works here, because they heard we have a good company, because we are stable, because we care about our employees. So even though there’s a buzz inside and outside, our employees are advertising something better.

What is the most important principle a company should follow to not only hire but also keep skilled people?

One is to train them so that the company culture and job descriptions are very clear. We have decision competency lists, and it is clearly stated who is responsible for what. We have the tasks, the weekly planning, daily reports, weekly reports – that helps people a lot because they can predict what’s going to happen. We talk to them about vision, mission, and why they’re here. They get feedback, so they get an evaluation monthly, quarterly, after 6 months – depending on the post. They know what we are satisfied with and what we are not satisfied with. Bonus system KPIs* are set up. If you produce more, you get more. There are a lot of little elements that are necessary to keep them.

At the Fomco Group, you use Performia online tools. How do those help you at your work?

I have been using them for 10 years. I was the pioneer in Romania. Together we improved and translated the systems. After all these years of experience, our managers trust the Performia System. It’s very, very helpful when we evaluate the tests. What we see in the candidate’s results is confirmed in about half a year at the most.
People are confronted with why they do what they do, and why they are more sensitive to particular situations. It’s very important for me to know these things, and for them to know them, because it makes it easier for them to get through difficult situations.
I couldn’t imagine working without the Performia tests. They have been proven over the years and I trust these tests. It’s not just that I trust them, it’s that I objectively have the results. It is confirmed. And I can see in people’s eyes at training sessions how much it means to learn about people, how much it means to understand how people are selected and how people behave. It helps not only within the company but in your personal life.

Choose them well, trust them,
delegate, hold their hand at the beginning
and then gradually let go.

How can you best manage your staff to ensure that the company is constantly growing, but that staff also feel they are growing?

Leading by example. For example, we have a code of ethics. It was created by the employees themselves with supervision and support. There were a few core values that came from the owner, but beyond that, the behaviour, the dress code, etc. came from them, it’s theirs. This was demonstrated in a team-building session.

You work with a very young team. How can a young person, a newcomer, succeed in such a big group of companies and in such an important area as HR?

With the right support. Choose them well, trust them, delegate, hold their hand at the beginning and then gradually let go. Expecting them to work independently and letting them make mistakes, which we correct together. If I give out a job, it will never be done as if I did it, because everyone does it a little differently. They do tasks that I can’t do anymore: Facebook, Instagram, and organizing presentations at universities. Usually, company managers are invited to these universities, but I recommended that HR people should go because they are closer to young people. They share their own experiences, and the audience sees that they have been interviewed on TV, radio, job fairs, and how they are soaring and satisfied with what they are achieving.

*KPI = Key Performance Indicator

Thank you very much, Judit Nyulas, I wish you good luck in your activities. ■

How important is the cooperation between the HR manager and director when selecting and introducing a newcomer to the company? And what is the most important thing for building a successful team? Get inspired by the views of HR professionals and company directors.

1. 1. Do your ED and/or managers cooperate with the HR manager when selecting a new employee for their department? If so, how does this cooperation take place in reality?
2. 2. Do you have a specific procedure for allowing a new employee to settle in as quickly and as best as possible?
3. 3. What do you think is the most important thing for building a powerful and successful team?

How do successful HR managers see it?

Ivana Stuchlá,
Process and personnel manager at the companies Espresso Professional, s.r.o. & Comperio s.r.o., Czech Republic

1. It wasn’t always like that. As HR manager, I have to find out information from the manager about what the candidate should be, what he will do and what exactly is expected from him. I have to be interested in the given position also in the sense of understanding the concept of the work itself – go to the customers with the salesman, or show up in “mechanic pants” in production. Without doing this, it happened that people didn’t apply for the job, or only candidates who were not right for the job applied.
2. Have a precise step-by-step adaptation plan and review it with the newbie at regular meetings. The more often, the better, even unplanned. Do everything so that he finds out information with a great degree of willingness, by giving him weekly feedback from colleagues with whom he communicates. The HR manager is a partner for both parties.
3. Look for people with the same emotional tone, and it doesn’t matter if they are old, young or one-handed. The desire to work with them and pass on know-how, and not give unproductive employees a chance indefinitely.

Eliška Graciasová
HR manager at Iresoft, s.r.o., Czech Republic

1. Sure, they are doing the recruitment with us from the very beginning. The first step is to decide together who we are actually looking for. So first I’ll sit down with the manager and we’ll talk. About the strengths and weaknesses of his team, what the new Iresoft person should be, or definitely should not be, what will be the result of his work, and what theoretical abilities he should have. And then the manager is at the second round, where he himself evaluates the candidate’s skills and at the same time assesses how the candidate would fit into his team.
2. In my opinion, universal procedures and guidelines do not exist. We are also learning and trying to make it as simple and pleasant as possible for new Iresoft people. I think that the absolute basis is for a person to feel accepted, to feel that they are important to us and that we care about them. And also that he can turn to anyone if he doesn’t know something.
3. An efficient and successful team can only work if we look at the world through the same eyes and believe in the same values. When something works out, people like to do their work, trust and respect each other. In such an environment, performance and success are, to put it very simply, actually an inevitable by-product.

How do successful EDs see it?

Gareth Jekel
Engineering director at Sagecon, Australia

1. Yes and no. Most of our hiring is production staff. Some are hired on very short notice, as project schedules change and force some very fast hiring. In this instance, we hire mostly from production check, one or two reference checks, then on site with our best performing site managers for assessment.
   Other hirings for apprentices, site managers and technicians are done with all the Performia steps in place, and one of the directors will attend the first or second meeting with the prospective employee.
2. Not as such. We do have thorough onboarding systems that each new team member goes through and can refer back to. One big step in onboarding is going through the letter of employment one-on-one with the new team member and our HR manager. We put a lot of effort into getting these agreements right and use them as the foundation for everything we expect of the new team member, and we use them for every review and correction.
   For pretty much all new team members, it is onboarding, then, or concurrently, throwing them in the deep end to get them producing as fast as possible. We are really looking for willingness and persistence to get the result more than we are looking for skill and finesse. We are well aware that willingness and persistence are pretty much impossible to train on the job, whereas skill and finesse can be learned while the person is getting some results. We are not so critical of people that make mistakes here and there. We encourage decision-making and question-asking, especially dumb questions. (Dumb questions are what save us the most mistakes!!)
3. That is easy, the ability to screen in those that have willingness and persistence. That is what Performia training and tools give us. This does not lead to the perfect team, but for sure it leads to a team that has no drama, people that are fun to work with, and when someone cannot pick up the skills and finesse at the rate we require, it is not a big deal for the company or the team member to let them go. They normally just fall off and we replace them, which leads to a constant improvement of the team overall.

Jaroslav Moravec
Executive director at LIEBHERR – STAVEBNÍ STROJE CZ s.r.o., Czech Republic

1. Definitely yes. Always. When a new position is opened, we distinguish whether it is an existing position or a comprehensively new one. Here the cooperation is much more intense. We create an ideal candidate profile and start searching. It always saves time when we know who we are looking for, and why. The process itself is such that we test all registered candidates with the help of Performia company questionnaires, and the HR manager then recommends those who pass to the managers. The HR manager may or may not be present at the interview.
2. We have a special procedure. In a lot of positions, we want a person to put himself in a situation where he should train himself. Before he starts, he has enough time to develop his idea of how his training will proceed based on the information from the interview. This will give us the opportunity to find out what the person really knows about the given position, as well as what they took away from the interview. It saves a lot of time and the candidate has two motivations. In addition, he wants to show that the training does not have to be long because they chose the right one.
3. In general, I say that the most important thing for a productive team is always the will of its individual members. When someone really wants to, they will look for ways to solve things and thus become efficient and successful.

Let’s complete the picture of building a successful team with a few inspirational ideas. What is the “team building” that has been so popular lately? Here is Mårten Runow’s viewpoint.

Unfortunately, “team building” has become a pretty confusing subject and yes, to many people today it means that we meet in the forest to do some survival exercises for a couple of days. That activity rarely contributes to making a better team. If we ask ourselves why we want a team, it will always boil down to the fact that we need to increase production and become more successful, so that we can survive better. We teach in our seminars that “production is the basis of morale” and when morale is high, we sure get along better and thus we have more of a team. So, the correct goal in team building is to do those things that make us increase valuable production. Have you ever seen a low-producing group with high morale and functioning as a team? I have not.

TEAM VERSUS PRODUCTION

Because Performia now operates in over 30 countries on all continents, I have had an opportunity to see with my own eyes how the principles of production and its connection to “team spirit” and decency are the same, no matter where you look. In Taiwan for example there is almost no unemployment, and they have a culture that supports and expects production from all people who are physically able to work. When their production peaked, criminality was extremely low. In areas where incentives to produce get taken away, you will inevitably see a lot more social unrest and trouble, no matter if it is in Sweden, Russia or South Africa. And the exact same principles are true when we look at the relative micro cosmos of a company, and the location actually does not matter much.

HOW DO YOU KNOW A GOOD LEADER

Let’s first define what the team is. It is a group of people that are working with a common purpose and who coordinate and cooperate to achieve targets. Team members tend to know what the other members of the team are doing and thinking, and they normally get along great.
From that, it follows that a great leader makes sure there is a common and known purpose for the activity and gets all members to push in that same direction. He/She makes sure there is a lot of relevant information flowing between the different departments and their people so that everyone can know how the group is doing overall. And he/she will make sure that each individual, as well as the group as a whole, is producing on a viable level. Thus “team building” is not something we do two days per year, but rather something which is an integral part of what we do every single day. If we succeed and meet our targets, we can then go for a couple of days to have fun in the forest or climb some mountains as a reward for having been a team.

Have you ever seen a low-producing group with high morale and functioning as a team?

THE BASIC INGREDIENTS FOR BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL TEAM

“Team building” actually starts when you recruit new people. If you hire people who are not really interested in production but who are more interested in joining a successful company to get a high salary, it will be very, very hard for you to make team members out of those people. Not impossible but A LOT harder. Thus if you know how to attract and hire productive and willing people, you have already removed the biggest barrier to building a team.
Sure, productive people can sometimes have some different ideas and get into arguments, but if they do, they can normally sort it out rather fast (within a few minutes or max few hours) and then keep going in the right direction. When unproductive people get into conflicts, they can often make that problem into something that could consume weeks, months and sometimes even years. So, starting with people who actually like to be productive handles most of the problems that one can otherwise experience when building a team.

THERE ARE SIMPLY NO PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE

In a few countries such as the Czech Republic, Netherlands, Norway, etc. where there is low unemployment, some companies might have a feeling that “there are simply no productive people”. My number-one advice, in this case, is: Please don’t panic! There are always productive people ready to make a career change for one reason or the other. What you need to know is how to write close-to-perfect hiring ads that will attract highly productive people to apply. Avoid going into “auctions” for experienced people who are already working in your industry and who are only waiting for a better bid from the next company. Hiring by offering more money than the competition very seldom becomes successful. Why? Because the people you attract this way are not loyal to the company they work for but rather to the highest bidder. Also, you can lose those guys as fast as you got them, and they are surprisingly seldom productive enough to even justify the salary they are given. There are many better ways, and I urge those of you who have problems getting good candidates to contact the Performia office in your country to get advice on what to do and how to write your ads.
Great people work because they want to contribute to the team or organization they belong to. For sure, they will expect to get something decent in return, but the major motivation for the best staff is to help others. They like to produce, and instead of trying to attract them by telling them what they will get, it is more effective to tell them what they will be required to do or produce. If you can offer them a difficult task or a challenge, you have a much bigger chance of succeeding than if you offer them more money, which is the least effective method of building a better team.

What most people don’t know is that Steve Jobs, while building Apple’s team, personally conducted over 5000 personal interviews.

HIRING MANAGERS VERSUS MANAGERS

I always say that HR is the key to a company’s success. What is urgently important is that there is very open and clear communication between these two entities. Having an HR department that understands the importance of hiring productive people makes the lives of the managers a lot simpler. If HR can attract and establish those who are productive and skilled enough to do the job well, then I prefer if it is the manager who will decide on the final candidate. HR can provide all found data on production, ideally combined with an analysis of personality, motivation and knowledge. Ideally, both top management and HR should know the principles of perfect hiring. What most people don’t know is that Steve Jobs, while building Apple’s team, personally conducted over 5000 personal interviews. That was how important he considered hiring to be.
It doesn’t matter if you have a company as big as Apple or much, much smaller, I wish you are always able to find the right people for your team. When you succeed, your whole operation will be much easier and building a successful team will be a piece of cake.■