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When To Hire an HR Professional? A Quick Guide for Growing Businesses Recruiting
November 11, 2024

When To Hire an HR Professional? A Quick Guide for Growing Businesses

As your startup scales, the complexity of managing your team grows exponentially. In the early stages, it's common for founders…
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The Secret to Better Focus and Less Executive Stress (Without Extra Time) Performance
November 6, 2024

The Secret to Better Focus and Less Executive Stress (Without Extra Time)

Here’s a simple hack I discovered that can boost your focus and have less executive stress and in meetings: Meeting…
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Why Traditional Job Interviews Are a Waste of Time When Recruiting For Startups Recruiting
October 30, 2024

Why Traditional Job Interviews Are a Waste of Time When Recruiting For Startups

Traditional interviewing strategies are a waste of time, especially when it comes to recruiting for startups. Startups are all about…
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The Rise of the 2-Day-Workweek Ideas
October 10, 2024

The Rise of the 2-Day-Workweek

Amazon’s Part-time Experiment In a bold and innovative move this week, Amazon announced they are piloting a new initiative to build teams staffed with part-time workers. With increasing demand for technical workers and Amazon’s long hours culture, this might help…
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Part 6: 4 Different Perspectives On Culture Guides
August 8, 2016

Part 6: 4 Different Perspectives On Culture

Complexity Company culture is much more complex than is often written about. For example, this Forbes article concludes that culture…
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Part 5: Culture Is What You Don’t Do. Your Taboos Guides
July 25, 2016

Part 5: Culture Is What You Don’t Do. Your Taboos

We’re now at part 5 of our series on company culture. In this article, we continue the exploration of the…
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Part 4: Promotions Are The Key To Understanding Status Guides
July 18, 2016

Part 4: Promotions Are The Key To Understanding Status

This is part 4 of our series on understanding company culture. Over the last 2 articles, we’ve looked at four…
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Part 3: Culture Creates Rituals Guides
July 10, 2016

Part 3: Culture Creates Rituals

In part 2 of our series of articles on company culture, we explored language as the first cue for reading…
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Part 2: Language Reveals Company Culture Guides
July 4, 2016

Part 2: Language Reveals Company Culture

Language The First Clue In this article, I’ll begin introducing a framework for observing and understanding company culture, starting with…
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Part 1: Rome wasn’t built in a day – neither was your company culture Guides
June 26, 2016

Part 1: Rome wasn’t built in a day – neither was your company culture

Company Culture Is Everywhere This is the first in a four-part series of articles on understanding and reading company culture. Part one, below, uses a trip to Rome as an example of the subtlety and complexity of culture. In future…
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Management Essentials In 2016 Action
June 19, 2016

Management Essentials In 2016

Imagine if work was like this: Every year, you sit down with your manager and create a set of goals.…
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Why Forced Distribution Performance Systems Don’t Work Action
June 13, 2016

Why Forced Distribution Performance Systems Don’t Work

I want you to consider two possible futures. In one future you get fired from your job. In the other future,…
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Recruiting: How Not To Approach Candidates Recruiting
June 6, 2016

Recruiting: How Not To Approach Candidates

The market for tech jobs in Seattle is hot. A few of my coaching clients are engineers who are actively pursuing…
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Should You Be Facebook Friends With Your Team? Action
May 30, 2016

Should You Be Facebook Friends With Your Team?

I was facilitating a Rookie Manager group recently, and the topic of being “Facebook Friends” with members of your team…
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Work / Life Balance. Choose Wisely Action
May 22, 2016

Work / Life Balance. Choose Wisely

Last week was the anniversary of the death of my mother, Gill, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.  Her…
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Mental Illness 101 For Managers Ideas
May 16, 2016

Mental Illness 101 For Managers

I recently posed the question “Should a manager fire, tolerate or help difficult employees?”.  The article picked through the different ways that employees learn problem behaviors; from their current workplace, from previous workplaces, from life in general.  I included a…
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The 4 Ways Employees Learn Problem Behaviors Ideas
May 2, 2016

The 4 Ways Employees Learn Problem Behaviors

In my recent article on the value of empathy as a manager, I mentioned the archetype of someone who is…
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Doing A Re-org or Merger? Start With Culture Action
May 2, 2016

Doing A Re-org or Merger? Start With Culture

Activision recently completed its acquisition of King Digital, author of mobile gaming juggernaut Candy Crush Saga.  Activision spent $5.9bn and…
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The Present Moment Is Right Here, Right Now Meditations
May 1, 2016

The Present Moment Is Right Here, Right Now

Living in the moment is often represented as a grand, wild or spontaneous endeavor. Riding a roller coaster, jumping out of…
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Is Engagement The Right Metric? Ideas
April 24, 2016

Is Engagement The Right Metric?

Jacob Morgan, author of The Future Of Work and self-described futurist, publishes a weekly newsletter bringing together his articles, videos…
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