Over the last 12 months I’ve been involved in several recruitment exercises from sales, customer support, engineering, marketing, technical writer across the spectrum of junior to senior positions. Big lesson I’m learning in today’s environment?...
As the owner of a private company you may have decided that 2013 is the year you are going to sell out. In previous posts I’ve covered many of the issues running through your mind. For example: How much is your business worth? Staging Your Business For Sale-...
Container Store operates 59 locations, booked sales of $707m last year and six years ago sold a majority stake to a Private Equity House. CEO Kip Tindell was interviewed on March 21 by the WSJ. Note the following facts from this interview: People in this company...
Harvard Business Review published a fascinating piece on March 15 on recent research conducted by Emily Heaphy and Marcial Losada into the effectiveness of leadership of 60 divisions of a large computer company. The one question they were trying to answer amongst...
I see the same problem again and again as businesses try to scale their operations. You can’t afford to recruit a new person for every task. So tasks float around half done by the loyal servant with 10 projects to handle. Whether your business employs 5 people or 500...