Archive for June, 2010

What makes a global team work?

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

What do you think makes a global team? International locations? Yes. Different nationalities of team members? Yes. Mobility of individual staff? Yes. . Overall, what is the essential element that makes a global team a truly “One team” instead of several groups that work for the same company in the same department? Well in the RB Information [...]

Celebrating success: RB culture at its best!

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Reckitt Benckiser Pakistan’s Sales and Marketing team recently visited Thailand for its annual Sales and Marketing Conference in Thailand. The business unit had performed really well in 2009 and the company rewarded its employees with an exotic trip to Thailand to celebrate their success together. . . It started off with a vote across all [...]

RB – a school of leadership

Monday, June 28th, 2010

In previous posts here on the blog we have discussed broadly about our company values and how well they express the RB culture. We’ve asked whether you can be an entrepreneur in a corporate environment. We’ve  revealed the 6 traits you need to be a high flier at RB. Even our CEO Bart Becht has [...]

Can you be an Entrepreneur within a Corporate Environment?

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Entrepreneurship. The very word implies starting your own venture with the intention of making ridiculous amounts of money. Someone that personifies the term is Richard Branson, founder of all things Virgin. His successful ventures can be put down to his knack for taking calculated risks and learning from mistakes, he states ‘you never know…when you’re [...]

Of Number One’s or No One’s

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Hi! I’m Asad Saeed, Area Sales Manager at RB Pakistan and in my first post here I shall give you a brief glimpse of RB’s culture. As Area Sales Manager I had implemented a ‘Sales Achievement Competition’ at the salesman level in May. Within a week, daily sales grew by 29% and each salesman was thriving on [...]