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3 Tips For Hiring Managers On How To Recruit Veterans

YoungUpstarts

It’s great that so many businesses are saying they want to hire veterans. You have to do some legwork to meet them halfway, but for some hiring managers they might not know where to start, especially if they don’t have a military background. Here are three tips for hiring managers looking to recruit veterans: 1.

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

In the modern office, if someone has great creative ideas, the Halo Effect makes us more likely to admire that same person’s copywriting or management skills. The result of these vulnerabilities is that we hire the wrong candidates, listen to the wrong people, and fail to differentiate our businesses. We overestimate our knowledge.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents.

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Unlocking Your Unfair Advantage: How Your Unique Story Powers Your Entrepreneurial Success

Duct Tape Marketing

So it's understanding what constraint is and how to manage that, I suppose was, John (05:27): Yeah, of course, it's so cliche now, but I like to tell even 30 year olds about a dialup internet and things of that nature. Can you imagine that now it would take 10 minutes and we had to take turns. It's the founders themselves.

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Uncovering The Hidden Power Of Your Unfair Advantage

Duct Tape Marketing

So it's understanding what constraint is and how to manage that, I suppose. And so if you can identify your unfair advantages and then amplify those in your pitch, in your message to hiring people to your cust or getting customers, it will help you get your early traction, which is what starts a business. John Jantsch (06:24): Yeah.

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Herding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together

Steve Blank

When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. A beneficiary can be a soldier, program manager, commanding general, government contractor, stakeholder, customer, etc.)

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? September 8, 2009 6:25 PM dbsaid. Big companies can afford entire departments dedicated to compliance.

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