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Employer Branding Strategy - Why Self Actualization and Purpose matter

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Struggling with finding good workforce for your team? Fighting a constant struggle to retain those you have? Try looking beyond what you can do with money and bonus packages. Think away from increasing car allowances or annual leave days. There is more to work these days. If you run a business or a team, read this article and find out how to achieve employee retention and hiring of talented staff with little investment in a short matter of time.  The Employee Today is Different In the past there must have been an entirely different type of employee wandering the job market. They desired to be payed high above all, wanted to work as little as possible and did not care about much beyond that. At least that is what it seems like when you look at how companies try to convince people to join them. Or make people stay with them. I have no idea what was relevant in that past, but I do see what is relevant now. And salary combined with fixed work-hours per week are not doing the trick ...

AWS & VMware - Making The Enterprise Happy?

Since the announcement of AWS and VMware teaming up to form the long expected response to Microsoft's Azure Stack there has been no tech meeting without this subject being discussed. One thing is for certain: it will draw huge numbers of today's VMware customers towards AWS and away from Microsoft. However, there is more to this than just a marketing push.  Should Microsoft be scared?   Many see the new partnership as a direct response to Microsoft's Azure Stack. And what else would it be? But thinking about it, I am not so sure if the two setups can be compared. Microsoft as a one-for-all service provider. AWS and VMware as a partnership, offering a technological choice but most of all an easy migration and operation scenario. Microsoft must have seen this coming. Their only relevant competitor in public cloud and the only competitor in the hypervisor market, both looking for the ultimate solution for their lack of hybrid cloud capability. What else would they do than t...