It’s the start of the year and hiring plans for 2020 are being finalized across the Valley. Although, not if Softbank is your lead investor.. Too soon? The sun will rise in the morning and set in the evening just as reliably as hiring managers failing to receive their full headcount requests. With the 2-3 […]
During a recent conversation with a new manager undergoing the transition from individual contributor, they described a difficulty they were having in holding a new employee to adherence of a certain process. Uh oh. The request was to send this manager a weekly summary of their work by a certain day and time each week. […]
The only thing going up faster than unicorn valuations these days is the collective title inflation across the social network of professional white lies, LinkedIn. Where did this start?? Is this recruiter driven? Keeping up with the Joneses? Either way, trying to figure out who people really are and what they’ve actually accomplished is getting […]
One of the most important, strategic, entertaining, often wasteful and straight up wild parts of your management job is going to be devoted to interviewing. Some candidates will flatter you, some will surprise you, fewer still will impress you. Remember not to forget the point of this exchange is a mutual role & skills evaluation. […]
A little interaction from this past week got the wheels turning – do first impressions matter? Most of the time, it’s probably a mixed bag. But sometimes they do, very much. One of our (early in their career) new hires asked if they could leave training early so they could go to the Outside Lands […]
In the hyper-competitive, rapidly moving world of technology…expect to lose employees quicker than your kid cousin lost their pet hamster. According to one cursory Google Search, data shows companies might expect to keep employees for an average of ~2 years. And those are for well known, growing companies! So, provided you’ve been tasked with the […]
We can learn some good lessons from our venture capitalist counterparts when it comes to evaluating the risk of new management employment opportunities at startups. The most popularized risks of ventures, when evaluated for investment opportunity, are broadly captured within the following categories:
Nick Saban is the head coach of the mens football team at the University of Alabama and winner of SIX national championships, but you likely already knew that. During a recent talk ahead of his team’s spring practices he laid out his goals for the upcoming fall season: Love it! Get the right people on […]