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Start with recording their expertise—this is really important. I routinely search for people based on their skills and not their names. Gathering information about people is the key to collecting them.
Jeffrey W. Meshel • The Opportunity Magnet: Attract Success in Every Aspect of Your Life
With more well-qualified people competing for each step on the organizational ladder all the time, rivalry is intense and only getting more so as there are fewer and fewer management positions.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
RHD, a nonprofit we will meet in the next chapter, holds the principle that when there is room for salary increases, they should be disproportionately geared toward the lowest salaries first.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Who: The A Method for Hiring
Wilfried Portet • 2 cards
Kevin Scott, now CTO of Microsoft, would ask in candidate interviews: “What do you want your next job to be after this company?” Most of your team members realistically won’t stick with the same company forever. This is even more true as you scale to 20, then 50, then 100 team members and so on. But the best way to empower them to do good work is t... See more
David • 99 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Ungooglable Startup Advice
— Thomas Malone and Robert Laubacher, “The Dawn of the E-lance Economy,” Harvard Business Review
Tom Peters • The Brand You 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!
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