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The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

The importance of talented employees for a young firm’s success is undisputed, yet we know relatively little about how exactly employees contribute to a startup’s success. But what kind of hires help ensure a startup’s success?

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

Specifically, how can we ensure that we are appropriately looking ahead, curating market opportunities, and defining holistic responses to address the specific needs of our customers? Doesn’t the Chief Marketing Officer look at opportunities out in the market?

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. The implication is massive: Naspers, Africa’s largest company by market capitalization, recently exited its classified e-commerce business in some markets.

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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Instead of blanket statements such as ‘keeping all high performers,’ viewing talent through a strategic lens can be a useful criteria to make objective tradeoff choices. Customers. Start slow, finish fast.

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So, you’ve built a new capability, but no one uses it! What gives?

Kates Kesler

She had hired top talent, built assets, and delivered high quality demonstration projects. They do all the right things: create a strategy, announce a leader, build and buy the talent needed, research and implement best practices, purchase new technology, and roll-out training. But a year later they have little to show for it.

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. And where they need to let go of decisions to create speed but also to develop talent.

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Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

Management Consulted

Linda’s company, Talent Reconnect, offers returnships that are aimed mostly at women who have graduated from top business schools but who had 2 to 5 years of post-MBA experience before opting out. The second reason I think companies are responding is they are only part-time hiring right now in this market.