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7 Compensation Strategies for Cash-Strapped Startups

Harvard Business

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. How do you recruit a developer making well into six figures, or an experienced salesperson with four kids in private school? A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Consultants are very risk averse and are very hyper focused on issues like GPA and other metrics – not because they are a perfect indicator, but because there are a decent indicator of whether or not somebody is going to be able to manage work that sometimes is really exciting, and sometimes kind of mundane. Let’s see here.

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The Best Companies Aren’t Afraid to Replace Their Most Profitable Products

Harvard Business

Since then, WeChat has been constantly launching new services, from mobile payments to booking doctor appointments, from police reporting to taxi hailing, from video conferencing to mobile banking services. Recruit Holdings from Japan is a publishing and classified advertisement company, founded in 1963.

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Fatigued by rejections? Try a personality test!

Tom Spencer

This article was inspired by a recent conversation with an IT prodigy who specializes in building virtual games used for recruitment purposes. Online assessments, aptitude tests, and gamified problem-solving tasks have become ubiquitous in the recruitment processes of top companies, with consulting firms being some of the earliest adopters.

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Fix Your Social Media Strategy by Taking It Back to Basics

Harvard Business

But what worked for Comcast or Best Buy or Universal Studios probably will not work for a bank, tech startup, or retail company. All these KPIs can be collected and organized in a simple social media metrics table. Four two-person driving teams were recruited on Facebook to take on the challenge.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

On top of that, being able to cut intermediaries and connect directly the banks of both ends of each transaction can avoid most cross-border fees. There are implications for marketers and advertisers as well. Today, marketers often try to get access to customer data by paying third-parties (like Facebook) to share information.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

Consider the cautionary example of a large bank I recently worked with. These ideas and practices, however, were nowhere to be found in the evaluation criteria of the bank’s employees. The team I was engaged with had its agile vocabulary down.

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