I have been digging deep and thinking about what I have learned throughout my career and what I want to focus on and further improve. Managing and developing people is the highest ROI skill that you can always work to enhance. Why should you care? Well, unless you are...
Talent Management
The Most Powerful Tool for Improving Morale in a Rapid Pace Environment
Let’s face it, when our companies are searching for the perfect product/market fit or working to scale a repeatable business model, we have plenty of fires to extinguish and opportunities to chase. Closing that next deal, managing another huge money-making project,...
Stars vs. Constellations – steps to building solid high-performing teams
When it comes to startups and fast-growing scalable businesses, sustainable growth companies are built by teams of shining constellations rather than just several bright stars. A team of people that can feed off each other and grow together will beat any company...
Parallels Between Startups and Restaurants
Since I usually recruit talent for my teams, I often hear from acquaintances how they know someone “just so perfect, so well-rounded, so capable, so lacking of faults” that would be perfect for our startup world. These fantasy referrals often come from 1) those who...
Earned vs. Need-Based Loyalty
Call me old-fashioned, but I cringe every time I hear another claim about how we are moving into the age of “careerism” and “just in time staffing”. Why? Because we always hear about this fad right at the tail end of every downturn. It’s like herpes spread by some...
How To Build Your Startup Core Team
I had a really fun conversation with a founder of a great company with fantastic potential today and we covered many topics, one of which prompted me to write this article. Securing money and investors are not always the biggest issue keeping startup founders awake at...