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The 5 Types of Employees You’ll Find on Your Startup Journey (and How to Manage Them)

Up and Running

He was joking, of course—your employees aren’t a bunch of animals struggling for survival at a watering hole in Tanzania—but they sure will act like it sometimes. Even though the ones I’ve hired required near-constant oversight and frequent prodding to stay on task, they were a net positive for my businesses. Wrangling Monkeys.

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