Key takeaways A critical key to success is attracting the right talent to your team. This provides a competitive advantage over other companies. A key element to successful recruiting is for leadership to own and drive the process, rather than relying on HR (who are a critical component, however) The other key is proactively finding […]
The championship game last night got me thinking about the similarities between building a title team and a great social game company. Although there seem to be a million books on how you can use lessons from sports in the business world, one topic that seems quite neglected is recruiting. Since I did not really […]
Anyone reading my blog knows my passion and respect for behavioral economics and consumer behavior, I consider these fields key to successful business. Putting my money where my mouth is, I am now recruiting a consumer behavior product manager to join my free to play team on the Isle of Man. This position will be […]
There was an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review, Why People Quit Their Jobs, that provides great analysis on when your team members are most likely to leave. I have written repeatedly on the importance of recruiting a great team, and the logical next step of retaining the great people you have recruited, and […]
The value of a good team cannot be overstated, it is more important than strategy, technology and even cash available. I have written before on some of the principals for recruiting a great team and how you should never stop recruiting. It is ironic how much effort companies put to recruiting the best but do […]
My first business partner taught me something very valuable: The worth of captains and lieutenants in the military, which you can extend to the business environment. During the Cold War, NATO had a significant disadvantage in the number of forces it had versus the number that the East Bloc possessed. It was a widely held belief, […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Reid Hoffman’s book Alliance and his innovative ideas on how to structure the employee company relationship. One issue that some people raised to me was it sounded great, but if your company does not believe in creating tours of duty, it was not very useful. I am not […]
One of the best books I read this year is The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman. The core concept in the book is that there is no longer employment for life but there is still a way to build a win-win relationship between employers and employees. Hoffman and his co-authors […]
Over the summer, I read Forbes Editor Rich Karlgaard’s The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success and it had some very interesting insights. I have written many blog posts on optimization, how to get the most out of your customers, etc., but Karlgaard points out that all good companies are optimizing. To be […]
Finding strong members for your team is one of the most important skills needed to succeed and a recent Harvard Business Review article, “21st Century Talent Spotting” by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, provides some strong insights on how to optimize your talent search. With skills and competencies now the key to finding employees, rather than past experience, […]
