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Picking winners
Internships are absolutely core to the talent pipeline, says Nando Steenhuis – especially when that talent is as capable as Asmita Gupta.
Internships are absolutely core to the talent pipeline, says Nando Steenhuis – especially when that talent is as capable as Asmita Gupta.
Lisa van Bekkum (FI, 2019) and Rutger Delhaas (FI, 2020) swap notes on their shared paths to roles at Rabobank – and why a sense of belonging is so important.
They may be the youngest members of your workforce, but what they think – and what they do next – will define your success for the next 30 years. Researcher Hana Ben Shabat (MBA, 1995) tells us what we need to know about our new colleagues.
So you want to launch your own startup. What do you need? Capital, of course. Determination. And most of all? Passion. At least, that’s the narrative. But of course, it’s not enough. Starting a business is dirty, difficult and frequently frustrating. Most don’t become unicorns. Many fail.
Hand-sanitiser. Masks. The anderhalvemetersamenleving. Staycations. Vaccinations. Covid-19 has changed many things about daily life – so perhaps it is no surprise that almost three-quarters of us say that it has caused us to re-evaluate our lives.
You need to keep learning. But scoping exactly what you need to know now is hard. Dean of Executive Education, Professor Nicola Kleyn, outlines the big trends.
What is it really like to uproot your life for a job on the other side of the world?
The last two years have up-ended pretty much every management trick in the book. No quiet words. No drinks after work. Dr Murat Tarakci says that what we need now is a different kind of leadership.
When Apung Sumengkar (MBA, 2013) launched his business consultancy Daya Qarsa, he knew the perfect person to run its project delivery. Septian Waluyan (MBA, 2017) didn’t just bring first-class expertise and experience – he was also a fellow RSM alumnus.