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Good riddance to non-competes

OnlyOnce

When the Wall Street Journal says that “Sales staff, engineers, doctors and salon workers are among the most common types of workers affected by litigation of noncompete clauses…in 2022” that makes me sick to my stomach. Some restrictive covenants for a limited period of time for former employees are totally fair.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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The Community Comeback: 14 Ways Local Leaders Are Reshaping America

YoungUpstarts

They’re using community dashboards to keep critical metrics front and center. Just like a company, a community needs objective metrics to know how healthy they are, to identify areas that need improvement, and to gauge progress over time. They need to see all of them together and updated regularly. Are there a lot of Millennials?

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

As I dug around, I was stunned to discover that I was hardly the first one to figure this out: my observations have been common knowledge among industrial engineers for almost a century. Prosperity Covenant , Tom Walker. Overall, most companies seem to have fallen to a least-common-denominator measure of team output.