Tag Archives: Hiring

Do You Know When It’s Time to Hire Professionals?

There’s a great article on Chobani, the Greek yogurt pioneer, and it’s founder, who almost lost it all because he didn’t build a structure of competent professionals to help him manage the business. But, the big question the article didn’t … Continue reading

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The Rise of the CEO Support Group

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Hobby Lobby Hysteria

As Cheri Oteri used to say on Saturday Night Live, ‘simmer down’. To my way of thinking, the Hobby Lobby decision isn’t bad for women. And it’s not bad for business, although I don’t think that anyone on the left … Continue reading

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Pivoting From Obamacare

Well, just as we’re trashing all things Obamacare (other than delaying the employer mandate to do it), comes word via the Wall St. Journal (Adam Janofsky, Sarah Needleman’s writing partner on Small Business) that a few hardy businessmen are hiring … Continue reading

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Comeback Trail in Business, Like Sports, Features Six Steps

turning around your business requires lots of steps Continue reading

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Evaluate Right, Hire Right Part Two

One of our blogposter rightly asked what our sources were for our conclusions that if a firm doesn’t evaluate its present employees correctly, hiring new employees based on this template is difficult, if not impossible. Actually, when Julie Fletcher and I … Continue reading

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How to Know the Sales Person You Are Interviewing is a Superstar

This blogpost was originally written on the ‘A Sales Guy’ blog by Keenan, and is interesting because we all want to hire a superstar or two. Here are his comments: 1. The guy or gal should be slick, especially if … Continue reading

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Hiring Tips for First Time Entrepreneurs

Hiring mistakes can plague startups. We suggest five areas entrepreneurs might do well to stress. Continue reading

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To Hire Well, Keep the Job Description

To hire well, use success attributes of employees, and ranking of the attributes. Continue reading

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How You Know When It’s Time to Hire

There was last week a blogpost in BusiessNewsDaily.com about when it’s time to hire, but I think it left out a few salient factors. 1. It seemed to be more oriented to startups hiring their first employee, but there are … Continue reading

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