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12 SIMPLE THINGS A LEADER CAN DO TO BUILD A PHENOMENAL TEAM

12 SIMPLE THINGS A LEADER CAN DO TO BUILD A PHENOMENAL TEAM Whether you sure just starting to hire or expanding your existing team, attracting and encouraging top talent can be difficult. You want to find the best of the best – and find ways to help them thrive in your establishment. In general, the following advice helps in ensuring that your employees are happy and successful – and that you are, too. 1.      Don’t Settle for Mediocre: It is not fun to fire people, so employers often settle for the first set of people they hire. However, this practice can lead to weaknesses within a team. Once you realize a member of the team is performing at a mediocre level, call him out, but more importantly, support him to do better. If there is no improvement, it’s time to find a rock star for your team. 2.      Be a Thought Leader: Top talent is too good to work for middling companies with weak brands. The more you can position yourself as an authority in your industry, the more ta

Illegal kidney/liver removal by crime syndicates... Is it real?

Human Trafficking is modern day slavery. People are trafficked within and across borders for exploitative reasons. Some of the exploitations include commercial sex trade, domestic servitude, chattel slavery, forced marriage, debt bondage, and more worrisome of all, organ harvesting.   Organ harvesting   refers to the removal, preservation and use of human organs and tissue from a supposed ‘donor’ to be used in surgical transplants on a person in need of such organs or tissue. A rise in diabetes and other diseases has increased the demand for organs, leading to a lucrative industry of trafficking. Organised gangs are harvesting organs such as kidneys from vulnerable people for patients offering almost $200,000, while such vulnerable people are paid as low as $20,000 by these organised gangs. Many of the patients involved in the operations, which were estimated to number 10,000 a year - more than one an hour, go to China, India or Pakistan for the procedures. Luc Noel, a World