Up and Running

MARCH 7, 2018

I spent years as a manager at a startup company. In my time, I learned a thing or two about the importance of preventing employee turnover. Aside from the time-consuming tasks of screening potential employees, interviewing, and re-hiring , losing and replacing employees is expensive. Here is how to do it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2019

For example, I just remembered a classic book, “ The Best Team Wins: Build Your Business Through Predictive Hiring ,” by Adam Robinson, CEO and cofounder of Hireology, which details the how and why of hiring your most valuable assets today. Team managers in a hurry to hire often skip references, assuming they won’t get the real story anyway.

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Hiring Technical Cofounder Cofounder Retention 184

View from Seed

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Retaining engineering talent has become an increasingly challenging task for any engineering manager in the Bay Area. thredUP has been very fortunate regarding engineering retention. While luck may play a role, much of the credit for our great retention goes to the team. Our largest team, Web Engineering, has twelve engineers.

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CTO Hire Retention Marketing Engineer 120

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Managing nonprofit organizations with effective governance means running a nonprofit well. The Five Keys to Governing and Managing Nonprofit Organizations Effectively. IRS Form 990 asks if the nonprofit has a written record retention policy. It also means watching out for risks, especially risks related to compliance.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 3, 2023

We’ve got it all wrong, how we’ve been managing our employees (like, really really really wrong ). Does it mean you’ll find a fantastic employee? Traditional recruiting equals employee turnover. Be it one hundred or one employee, you hired a human. Of course, you have to pay your employees. Not one bit.

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Employee Leadership Hiring Retention 157

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The term “frugal innovation” was coined by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu in their 2012 book Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth. In the book, the authors explore how frugal innovation can be used to create value in low-resource contexts. A frugal tap in Ghana. Image Credit: Amuzujoe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2017

For example, I just finished a new book, “ The Best Team Wins: Build Your Business Through Predictive Hiring ,” by Adam Robinson, CEO and cofounder of Hireology, which details the how and why of hiring your most valuable assets today. Team managers in a hurry to hire often skip references, assuming they won’t get the real story anyway.

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Hiring Technical Cofounder Cofounder Retention 147

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2022

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I’m doing a solo show where I’m covering a topic that is very high on a lot of business owners’ minds and that’s the idea of recruitment and retention of your internal customers — your employees. 8:00] The four questions to ask your employee. [11:52]

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Retention Employee Software Review Networking 70

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Double checking for the prices in books may be time-consuming. Effective management of business data can significantly help improve the company’s operations and productivity. Tracking employee retention. The tool helps one reduce human error that comes with forgetting the prices of goods. Compliance. Data Breaches.

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Global Technical Review Software Review Retention 109

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

companies can no longer afford to provide group health insurance to their employees. And both employers and employees alike have tried to make the most of a bad situation. Below as an overview of the steps you should take right now whether you’re an employer, insurance professional, trusted adviser, or employee: If you’re an employer….

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Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

In my book “ Customer-Driven Disruption ” I discussed the very different ways in which millennials and Generation Z approach the world and the marketplace – influenced by peer reviews, driven by the desire for personalized products and service, and unwilling to delay gratification. That applies even to these first four strategies.

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Technical Review Technology Customer Qatar 145

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s time to wake up to this fact and be the first in your industry to craft a radically different people-first social media strategy that is driven by the voice of your employees, customers, and influencers.” [via Because of this, it spans two objectives: Turning customers into advocates Improving customer retention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

That’s why I was pleased to see the balance on people versus process in a classic book on how to fix your organization, “ The Diamond Process ,” by Mike Diamond and Christopher Harding. In the end, engagement drives customer retention, sales, growth and profit. Self-motivated people require less supervision and management.

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Leadership Retention Social Media Demand 320

Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2014

Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh have written an outstanding and important book called The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. Reid and Ben previously wrote a book called The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. It is also excellent.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In my book, ” The Hidden Wealth of Customers ” I offer a compelling vision for a more reliable way to grow a business by maximizing “return on relationship” with what I call “rock star” customers. This makes them far more credible to other potential customers than agencies or internal employees. How about local customers ?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2019

My #1 Goal for this coming year is to delegate 100% of my business management. 5- Promote employee engagement. I think that the key to running a leading workforce is to ensure that your employees are happy and plan to stick around. Find a publisher for my book called Cemetery of Lies. 9- Release my first book.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

I found these required attributes outlined well in the classic book, “ Customer Service the Sandler Way ,” by customer care expert Anne MacKeigan. Startups know that hiring employees who build good relationships will result in higher internal morale, less burnout, and higher customer retention. Highlight your good relationships.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2013

By Barbara Mitchell, managing partner of The Mitchell Group and co-author of “ The Essential HR Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager or HR Professional “ As Fast Company reported in January 2013, disengaged workers cost the US economy $350 billion a year in lost productivity.

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Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2014

Happy employees are more productive, and they’ll make your company better. Money spent on employee happiness is money well spent! She’s going to talk about today how to make more money by making your employees happy. Really today and this week, what we want to talk about is happy employees.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2022

And that's the idea of retention of internal team members, internal customers, whatever you wanna call them, employees, staff, team members. A lot of businesses during the pandemic learn that, but boy, in tough times, growth comes from being important in the lives of your customers and your employees. I need more people.

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Operations Marketing Employee Software Review 55

Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Kathleen Flannagan, the CEO of Abt associates , tells Adam Bryant in his book Quick and Nimble , “The managerial talent has to be there so that they can… allow them to move quickly as opposed to just saying “You should stay in that job for three to five years. Catmull was blind-sided.

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Software Review Employee Retention Silicon Valley 126

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2013

Because water runs through the pavement, there is no need for drainage, sewers, or a retention pond. Additionally, the company does not need to deal with pollutants that collect in retention pond water. If an organization goes in this sustainability direction, it can build employee loyalty as well as public goodwill.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

His book titled From Grassroots To Greatness: 13 Rules to Build Iconic Brands with Community Led Growth. Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Instead, watch payback period for acquisition efficiency, watch retention for product/market fit, watch expansion revenue for long-term growth, and watch gross margin for long-term profitability. Being focussed on SaaS metrics is not incompatible with valuing employee fulfillment and customer happiness. Often, you can’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Your revenue is the $75 million you got paid in booking fees. It could be an eCommerce website or “flash sale” where they are booking revenue from customers but then having to pay out a high percentage of the sale to the clothing manufacturer. Many eCommerce companies are in fact, middle men. So which company is better run?

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s one of the largest building blocks in great employee retention. Management of the team. Employee satisfaction. It’s imperative that effective communication for leaders and employees alike exist in your small business. We discuss the book section by section in a quick book club meeting.

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Small Business Leadership Retention Employee 60

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

My #1 Goal for this coming year is to delegate 100% of my business management. 5- Promote employee engagement. I think that the key to running a leading workforce is to ensure that your employees are happy and plan to stick around. Find a publisher for my book called Cemetery of Lies. 9- Release my first book.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 20, 2011

Our hockey stick was so bad that one quarter, we booked 90% of our new bookings on the last day of the quarter. In all three cases, managers got what we asked for, but not what we wanted. In the second example, I managed the team to a set of numbers that did not fully capture what I wanted. How does this happen?

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Hockey Stick Management Employee Retention 78

David Teten

JANUARY 14, 2019

As a manager, I’ve always tried to maintain a culture of understanding people’s personal calendar needs, e.g., childcare obligations. Researchers from Stanford, the University of Munich, and the London School of Economics found that well-managed companies adopt family-friendly work policies more often than less-well-managed companies. .

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. And engaging customers in such ways is generally much less expensive than hiring costly employees or agencies.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Colin D Ellis is a renowned culture change and project management expert who works with organizations around the world to help them transform how they get things done. So when I got the opportunity in the late 1990s to become a project manager, I jumped at the chance to build my own. They can’t.

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New Zealand Australia Programming Retention 160

Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 19, 2020

In 2011, Catalyst, a non-profit that aims to create more equitable workplaces for women, released a report that showed that even when women did “all the right things” including using self-help books, participating in mentorships, and networking with leaders, their actual advancement still fell short of their male counterparts.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In small businesses, employees often become friends and family. Increased employee engagement : One of the best ways I’ve increased dedication here in my office? When employees feel like they are part of a close-knit community, they are more engaged in their work. Enhanced productivity : Engaged employees are more productive.

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Community Small Business Retention Employee 78

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

That’s why I was pleased to see the balance on people versus process in a classic book on how to fix your organization, “ The Diamond Process ,” by Mike J Diamond and Christopher R Harding. In the end, engagement drives customer retention, sales, growth and profit. Self-motivated people require less supervision and management.

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Leadership Retention Social Media Demand 237

YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2019

But in others, salaries are accessible: institutions such as state universities make all employee salaries available to the public. Examine recruitment and retention practices. Look at the recruiting and retention practices in your workplace: are women and women of color applying for open positions? Break down the maternal wall.

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Salary Retention Ohio Cofounder 198

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

I found these required attributes outlined well in the classic book, “ Customer Service the Sandler Way ,” by customer care expert Anne MacKeigan. Startups know that hiring employees who build good relationships will result in higher internal morale, less burnout, and higher customer retention. Highlight your good relationships.

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Retention Analytics Matching Customer 232