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Design Your Company Culture Like The World’s Largest Hedge Fund

David Teten

Unless your organization explicitly endorses Bridgewater’s set of cultural norms and every employee signs up to live by that social contract, you will never use all of the Principles. For example, Memo might have helped Marissa Mayer learn about and address early the serious concerns of Yahoo employees about her decisions.

Design 60
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Sick Leave for Your Employees: Why it Matters

crowdSPRING Blog

Beginning next month businesses in New York City that have 20 or more employees will be required to provide a minimum of 5 paid sick days for those workers every year. San Francisco, for instance, in 2007 passed the first such law and in 2012 Connecticut became the first state requiring such coverage. Photo: Country Doctor — by W.

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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

Airbnb knew their first employee would be critical to their culture, so to find their first engineer they conducted hundreds of interviews over four to six months. At Stripe, all 170 employees have open access to every email sent in the company – which makes for a very transparent company – but a very crowded inbox.

Cofounder 100
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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

This offers ample space for corporate partners to grow nearby with connectivity to NYC and many potential employees/interns from Yale. It would be ideal if Yale built a similar tool which allowed students to filter for companies with a) quality teams, b) >10 employees, c) backed by a credible VC, and d) (optional) a Yale cofounder.

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Fail To Plan, Plan To Fail: Designing An Implementation Process

YoungUpstarts

What is your budget for items, employees and equipment? It takes setting goals and milestones that you and your employees can reach successfully. How will you get the word out about your product and service? Your implementation plan should include the avenues you will take to promote your product and service.

Design 100
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Addicted to Ruthless Efficiency

OnlyOnce

Two things popped up in the last few days that are making it clear to me that there’s another issue all of us — whether you’re a CEO or CXO or an entry level employee — will face. We’ve become much more efficient in how we do our jobs and run our lives. Sometimes I even get one done in 15 minutes.

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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

We were not forced to lay anyone off and actually added employees during the pandemic. Thankfully our employees have been wonderful during these challenging times, but keeping morale and positive energy during these crazy times has also been challenging. Photo Credit: Justin A. Thanks to Mark Sherman, Law Offices of Mark Sherman ! #17-