by Caroline | Mar 11, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Recruiting
It’s SXSW. The most brilliant minds in tech from all over the world will converge on Austin and this is where you can pick off the next Sergey Brin or Jony Ive and take your idea global. So what do you do? You throw a huge party with really expensive alcohol, of...
by Caroline | Mar 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, Non profit HR, teamwork
It doesn’t take long as a business owner or manager to figure out why they say it’s lonely at the top. The downside of all that autonomy and the fancy office and the big bucks (proverbially speaking) is that you have to think a lot harder about how you interact with...
by Caroline | Feb 25, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting
People put it different ways: If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. A players hire A players and B players hire C players. Hire people who know more than you and get out of their way. The point is, the rule of thumb when it comes to...
by Caroline | Feb 18, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Hiring, Non profit HR, teamwork
We all know what it’s like to be in a group of people you don’t trust. You spend a lot of time watching your words, making sure you don’t reveal anything vulnerable, measuring what can be used against you or twisted into something else. If you’re in an organization...
by Caroline | Feb 11, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Management, teamwork
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we always pay homage to the fact that—in a lot of ways—an employment relationship is like a romantic relationship. Recruiting is like dating. The first 90 days are like the first few glorious months of the relationship. And then comes the...
