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Going Global: How To Build A Distributed Team

YoungUpstarts

Going global is often a requisite growth path for businesses seeking to expand and whilst the model of setting up satellite offices is a tried and tested way to expand overseas a more recent organizational model is that of ‘distributed’ teams or companies. Distributed Teams: An Overview.

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How to Develop and Speed Up Your Hiring Strategy After a Round of Funding

Up and Running

Startups in their infancy often face a problem when it comes to hiring. This is a problem that most startups face when hiring. If you have raised the capital that you need, you need to hire quickly to execute your plans. Questions to ask before hiring. Why is it taking so long to hire someone?

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

I explained why authorities like Sam Altman of Y-Combinator , Angel List’s Naval Ravikant, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gurley, GP at Benchmark Capital , believe boundaryless companies built by remote-distributed teams are the future of work. The Big Question: Why isn’t every company distributed today?

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How To Hire And Train A New Employee During The Summer (When Most People Are On Vacation)

YoungUpstarts

Recruiting and hiring employees is challenging, if only because the stakes for making the right choice are so high. Say you had to replace a worker who had been hired only recently, since they turned out to be a poor cultural fit. On top of the normal difficulties of the hiring process, HR also has to deal with its high seasonality.

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8 Tactics For Every Entrepreneur To Manage Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team. You may not have the breadth of technical challenge, or the budget, to lure in and keep motivated the caliber of technical expert you need.

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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

’’ Diversity hiring is not about ticking boxes in checklists or having all groups represented whatever the definition might be across different geographies around the world. So, who benefits the most from work from home jobs and diversity hiring programs? Work from home jobs & Hiring Neurodiverse People.

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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. Select new hires with attention to values. The real challenge is to win massive consumer preference repeatedly. Jeff Bezos at Amazon credits much of his success to this approach.