If the volume of correspondence post-event is any indication, the conversation with our guests Peter Vermeulen and Paul Connolly stimulated fresh thinking among the audience at last week’s Borderless Live. At the top of their chosen professions with global experience in leading Human Resources and Operations, after successful careers in the world’s largest life sciences company, subsequent ‘lives’ at Amazon and in the industrial world, have provided them with exceptional insights that challenged conventional thinking. Download the videoPassword: 5V.1=0T6
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