As someone who has his own business (you’re probably reading this on it right now), I’m very familiar with all the quotes about how to fake it till you make it. “You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until…
Category: Business
KPIs for People Teams
Understandably, teams and leaders are always curious about how to best monitor, track, and analyze data for various functions at the company. In this post, we’ll focus on: The most useful KPIs for People teams How to establish tracking and reporting metrics regarding these areas of responsibility Common metrics that are often misinterpreted or meaningless…
Hiring the Best Talent
Please note: This post contains affiliate links. If you buy something through one of those links, you won’t pay a penny more, but we’ll get a small commission, which helps keep the lights on. Thanks! If you’ve spoken with me in the past three months, there’s a good chance I’ve brought up the book Reach…
Retaining Your Best Employees
Please note: This post contains affiliate links. If you buy something through one of those links, you won’t pay a penny more, but we’ll get a small commission, which helps keep the lights on. Thanks! When we talk about retaining employees, what we’re really discussing are incentives that are effective and how to operationalize them. Regardless…
Your Ideas Don’t Matter
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How to Scale Startup Operations
Let me start with a trite statement, so we can all agree with it and get it out of the way. Change is hard. There are, however, fundamental steps and considerations that you can take to smooth out these transitions. In this post, let’s focus on developing and implementing process into a startup that has…
Developing and Growing Corporate Culture
Please note: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy something through one of those links, you won’t pay a penny more, but we’ll get a small commission, which helps keep the lights on. Thanks! I see some version of the following questions crop up fairly frequently, especially in the startup community, so I figured…
My Favorite Non-Business Book
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Leveraging The Endowment Effect
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On Building Credibility
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