The Right Kind of Ambition
In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. Surprisingly to me, I received a large number of responses from readers questioning whether or not this was good advice.…
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How to hire
Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good?
Staying Great
Old People
Part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with
Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People
He’s a big bad wolf in your neighborhood Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good —Run DMC, Peter Piper Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies …
Is it OK to Hire People from Your Friend’s Company?
Building the initial team for seed stage startups
How to interview for your growth team (from execs at Atlassian, Gusto, Hubspot)
How To Get Leadership Hiring Right At Startups
Precedents of great outcomes are good to have, but remember, the characters may not have affected the outcomes.
Experience Is Overrated
How to hire executives
To build a great company you’ll need to hire great people — it’s one of the top three priorities of the CEO. Executives have outsized…
Hiring for a job you never did or can’t do
Assembling an Executive Leadership Team is Daunting — Let Thumbtack’s CEO Help