Business Owner’s Blog

Why you should hire the best: In almost every category the best is way beyond good. You’ll get 10 times the results from the best people than you will from really good people. It will be more fun to work with a team like that. And they won’t cost you 10 times as much.
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Guy Kawasaki has a great post on how to fire someone. I was conflicted by one point that he makes: his dismissal of the idea that you should fire someone quickly. He says you should give them a second chance. Reading it, I realized I think both things are true. How can that be?
This got […]

Others say it better than I. Here’s a piece by Craig James (was a top recruiter for Hewlett Packard) about how to build a team that does your interviews. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki for the link.

Hiring is one of the top 3 problems I see in companies. Sales and Data points are the others. This article from JoelonSoftware shows how they do it. For interns, no less.
Key take-aways would be:

It’s a process you have to learn and devote time to, but it’s worth it.
The clearer you are on what you […]