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Episode page with video, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #219 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Hank Levine, the President and CEO of iPlace USA, a global Recruitment Process Outsourcing company. He has 39 years' experience in sales, business development, marketing, and general management. He created the marketing and business strategies for six companies – four of which were acquired for a total of $92 million. Hank has twice “reinvented” his career. Before heading offshore recruiting firms, he held senior management positions in venture capital-backed technology companies. The first phase of his career was with cutting-edge home automation and telecom firms. Hank holds a bachelor’s in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his master’s in management from the Sloan School at MIT. In this episode, Hank shares two favorite mistake stories from earlier in his career at two different companies — one related to sales and one related to technology development. Why did the first story profoundly change how he views leadership? Why did the second story teach him to avoid the “curse of the expert?” We also discuss his efforts to cultivate a culture of learning from mistakes at iPlace USA. I also want to mention that Hank is mentioned and quoted in my book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation, based on a previous interaction we had. Questions and Topics:  Putting the right person in the right role — good fit Examples of putting that lesson into practice? Giving up on a person vs. finding a different role? Dealing with politics in an organization when you think they're wrong and you're right Turning around and mentoring younger employees based on his lessons? Tell us about iPlace – the business and the environment Core values of respect, integrity Try to make it safe to admit mistakes Methods or approaches to help learn and avoid repeating mistakes? Learning from mistakes? Spreading that learning?  Subscribe, Follow, Support, Rate, and Review! Please follow, rate, and review via Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or your favorite app — that helps others find this content, and you'll be sure to get future episodes as they are released weekly. You can also financially support the show through Spotify. You can now sign up to get new episodes via email, to make sure you don't miss an episode. This podcast is part of the Lean Communicators network.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/favorite-mistake/support

<a href="https://markgraban.com/mistake219" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">Episode page with video, transcript, and more</a> My guest for Episode #219 of the <a href="http://myfavoritemistakepodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Favorite Mistake podcast</a> is Hank Levine, the President and CEO of <a href="https://iplaceusa.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iPlace USA</a>, a global Recruitment Process Outsourcing company. He has 39 years' experience in sales, business development, marketing, and general management. He created the marketing and business strategies for six companies – four of which were acquired for a total of $92 million. Hank has twice “reinvented” his career. Before heading offshore recruiting firms, he held senior management positions in venture capital-backed technology companies. The first phase of his career was with cutting-edge home automation and telecom firms. Hank holds a bachelor’s in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his master’s in management from the Sloan School at MIT. In this episode, Hank shares two favorite mistake stories from earlier in his career at two different companies — one related to sales and one related to technology development. Why did the first story profoundly change how he views leadership? Why did the second story teach him to avoid the “curse of the expert?” We also discuss his efforts to cultivate a culture of learning from mistakes at iPlace USA. I also want to mention that Hank is mentioned and quoted in my book <a href="http://mistakesbook.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation</a>, based on a previous interaction we had. Questions and Topics: <ul> <li>Putting the right person in the right role — good fit</li> <li>Examples of putting that lesson into practice?</li> <li>Giving up on a person vs. finding a different role?</li> <li>Dealing with politics in an organization when you think they're wrong and you're right</li> <li>Turning around and mentoring younger employees based on his lessons?</li> <li>Tell us about iPlace – the business and the environment</li> <li>Core values of respect, integrity</li> <li>Try to make it safe to admit mistakes</li> <li>Methods or approaches to help learn and avoid repeating mistakes? Learning from mistakes? Spreading that learning?</li> </ul> Subscribe, Follow, Support, Rate, and Review! Please <a href="https://www.markgraban.com/subscribe-to-my-favorite-mistake/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">follow</a>, rate, and review via <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-favorite-mistake/id1527152217" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, Podchaser, or your favorite app — that helps others find this content, and you'll be sure to get future episodes as they are released weekly. You can also financially support<a href="https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> the show through Spotify</a>. You can now <a href="https://www.markgraban.com/subscribe-mfm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sign up to get new episodes via email</a>, to make sure you don't miss an episode. This podcast is part of the <a href="https://leancommunicators.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lean Communicators network</a>.--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/favorite-mistake/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/favorite-mistake/support</a>

Hank Levine, CEO of iPlace USA, Shares Two Favorite Mistakes From Sales and Technology

Hank Levine is the President and CEO of iPlace USA, the largest company providing professionally managed recruiting services for companies worldwide. Founded in 2006, iPlace has over 800 employees, 100 clients, and has placed over 17,000 professionals in 21 countries on five continents. Hank has served in senior management positions in sales, business development, marketing, and general management. He has created the marketing and business strategy for six companies – four of which were acquired for a total of $92 million. Hank holds his Master’s in Management from the Sloan School at MIT and Bachelor’s in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Welcome to Ivy Podcast! On this Executive Leadership Podcast we interview top executives from Fortune 500 with a focus on strategy, innovation, negotiation and everything about leadership.Our Podcast for Executives features Thought Leaders who share practical insights for effective leadership, continuous innovation and strategy execution.Ivy Podcast is a rapidly growing Executive Podcast, which covers topics like Hiring and Retention Strategies, Talent Acquisition, Innovation, Digital Transformation and much more.On this Leadership Podcast, you will find conversations with the most accomplished executives from Fortune 100 companies. We aim to cover a broad range of industries and create a learning platform for the most ambitious and high potential professionals who are looking to learn from the most accomplished Executives on this Business Leadership Podcast.

Hank Levine is the President and CEO of iPlace USA, the largest company providing professionally managed recruiting services for companies worldwide. Founded in 2006, iPlace has over 800 employees, 100 clients, and has placed over 17,000 professionals in 21 countries on five continents. Hank has served in senior management positions in sales, business development, marketing, and general management. He has created the marketing and business strategy for six companies – four of which were acquired for a total of $92 million. Hank holds his Master’s in Management from the Sloan School at MIT and Bachelor’s in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Welcome to Ivy Podcast! On this Executive Leadership Podcast we interview top executives from Fortune 500 with a focus on strategy, innovation, negotiation and everything about leadership. Our Podcast for Executives features Thought Leaders who share practical insights for effective leadership, continuous innovation and strategy execution. Ivy Podcast is a rapidly growing Executive Podcast, which covers topics like Hiring and Retention Strategies, Talent Acquisition, Innovation, Digital Transformation and much more. On this Leadership Podcast, you will find conversations with the most accomplished executives from Fortune 100 companies. We aim to cover a broad range of industries and create a learning platform for the most ambitious and high potential professionals who are looking to learn from the most accomplished Executives on this Business Leadership Podcast.

How to Build a Successful Recruitment Outsourcing Company through Gamification with CEO of iPlace, Hank Levine

 According to Wikipedia, Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts. Gamification commonly employs gamedesign elements to improve user engagement, organizational productivity, employee recruitment and evaluation, and more. We are all used to being gamefied. In fact, our lives have been programmed to do things based on reward. Everything from our GPA to buying a new iPhone pulls from principles of Gamification.  A lot of Companies Gamify pieces of the organization, mainly those associated with revenue.  It is not commonly implemented throughout the whole organization, especially the operational side of the organization. Full organizational gamification has increased employee engagement by 92% and productivity is hitting record strides! Today's Quote: “The Game gives you a Purpose. The Real Game is, to Find a Purpose.” ― Vineet Raj Kapoor Show highlights: Discuss the benefits of gamification to your business What's needed to gamify your company? The structure to implement gamification into your company  Why did your company decide to gamify?  Our lives are gamified  Isn't gamification a form of behavioral modification or conditioning?  Skinner’s Radical Behaviorism or Pavlovian response  Benefits to the company?  The gamification you use at iPlace. How does it work? Launchpad  Customer, Employee &amp; Company goals *Launchpad: each person earns a star each week for successfully completing tasks. Each week mini performance review- Agile sprint?  40 stars = pay raise, 120 stars promotion.   Why does gamification work in terms of Engagement? Build a culture of performance and healthy competition UNDERPERFORMERS CAN NOT HIDE Put management on auto pilot. Unscheduled leaves have declined over 93% since they have eliminated by escalations (they and all of team loses stars) Sets expectations up front  Hank Levine is the President and CEO of iPlace USA, which is widely regarded as the highest quality company providing professionally managed sourcing and recruiting services for US-based companies from India. Over the past twelve years, he has helped over 240 American companies establish offshore recruiting operations.  Hank spearheaded the development of a very innovative “company operations system” based on gamification. He was the keynote speaker last May at the StaffingTec conference where he spoke about how progressive companies are using gamification to scale their operations, align company and client goals, improve the health and wellness of their employees, and even eliminate performance reviews.

According to Wikipedia, Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts. Gamification commonly employs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">game</a>design elements to improve user engagement, organizational productivity, employee recruitment and evaluation, and more. We are all used to being gamefied. In fact, our lives have been programmed to do things based on reward. Everything from our GPA to buying a new iPhone pulls from principles of Gamification.  A lot of Companies Gamify pieces of the organization, mainly those associated with revenue.  It is not commonly implemented throughout the whole organization, especially the operational side of the organization. Full organizational gamification has increased employee engagement by 92% and productivity is hitting record strides! Today's Quote: “The Game gives you a Purpose. The Real Game is, to Find a Purpose.” ― <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16866639.Vineet_Raj_Kapoor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vineet Raj Kapoor</a> Show highlights: <ul><li>Discuss the benefits of gamification to your business</li> <li>What's needed to gamify your company?</li> <li>The structure to implement gamification into your company</li> </ul> Why did your company decide to gamify? <ul><li>Our lives are gamified</li> <li> Isn't gamification a form of behavioral modification or conditioning? </li> <li>Skinner’s Radical Behaviorism or Pavlovian response</li> <li> Benefits to the company?</li> </ul> The gamification you use at iPlace. How does it work? <ul><li>Launchpad </li> <li>Customer, Employee &amp; Company goals</li> <li>*Launchpad: each person earns a star each week for successfully completing tasks. Each week mini performance review- Agile sprint? </li> <li>40 stars = pay raise, 120 stars promotion. </li> </ul> Why does gamification work in terms of Engagement? <ul><li>Build a culture of performance and healthy competition</li> <li>UNDERPERFORMERS CAN NOT HIDE</li> <li>Put management on auto pilot. Unscheduled leaves have declined over 93% since they have eliminated by escalations (they and all of team loses stars)</li> <li>Sets expectations up front</li> </ul> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hank-levine-52652/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hank Levine</a> is the President and CEO of <a href="http://iplaceusa.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iPlace USA</a>, which is widely regarded as the highest quality company providing professionally managed sourcing and recruiting services for US-based companies from India. Over the past twelve years, he has helped over 240 American companies establish offshore recruiting operations. Hank spearheaded the development of a very innovative “company operations system” based on gamification. He was the keynote speaker last May at the StaffingTec conference where he spoke about how progressive companies are using gamification to scale their operations, align company and client goals, improve the health and wellness of their employees, and even eliminate performance reviews.

Hank Levine: Gamifying Your Entire Organization - Accounting Needs to Have Fun Too!