Hiring
Hiring for Creativity: A Rant on Why You Should Ditch the Cover Letter
Note: The “Hiring for Creativity” series of posts is leading up to the launch of Hiring Gold, the 8-week plan for hiring awesome people. Sign up to be notified when it’s ready here. Cover letters. At best they’re a window into a candidate’s actual writing ability. At worst, they’re a complete waste of time. I [...]
Hiring for Creativity: The Truth About Job Boards
Note: The “Hiring for Creativity” series of posts is leading up to the launch of Hiring Gold, the 8-week plan for hiring awesome people. Sign up to be notified when it’s ready here. Job boards are every hiring manager’s friend, until they’re your worst enemy. When you post a job online it’s a crapshoot. You’re [...]
Hiring for Creativity: Behavioral Warning Signs
Note: The “Hiring for Creativity” series of posts is leading up to the launch of Hiring Gold, the 8-week plan for hiring awesome people. Sign up to be notified when it’s ready here. In the book Who by Geoff Smart and Randy Street, there’s a rundown of Marshall Goldsmith’s “behavioral warning signs.” Things to look [...]
Hiring for Creativity: The 5 Best Hiring Articles on the Web
Note: The “Hiring for Creativity” series of posts is leading up to the launch of Hiring Gold, the 8-week plan for hiring awesome people. Sign up to be notified when it’s ready here. I read a lot. I like good writing and I like to bookmark. Every day I see a new article on the [...]
Hiring for Creativity: What Kind of Person Do I Need Anyway?
Note: The “Hiring for Creativity” series of posts is leading up to the launch of Hiring Gold, the 8-week plan for hiring awesome people. Sign up to be notified when it’s ready here. “What kind of person do I need anyway?” It’s an important question because many times business owners simply hire wrong. It’s not [...]
‘Organization Design is for Lovers’ was Accepted to Future15 for SXSWi 2012
Coming to Austin in March is my talk ‘Organization Design is for Lovers.’ It was accepted for Future15, SXSW Interactive’s TED-style short-form solo presentation format. Below is the proposal that I submitted to SXSW. I’m going to have to pare it down quite a bit to fit into 15 minutes! What would you like to [...]
Hiring for Creativity: The Value of Hiring
Note: The “Hiring for Creativity” series of posts is leading up to the launch of Hiring Gold, the 8-week plan for hiring awesome people. Sign up to be notified when it’s ready here. Why hire? It’s a common question, especially from solopreneurs. There’s a resistance. You could be perfectly fine on your own or with [...]
Introducing Hiring Gold: The 60-Day Plan for Recruiting & Adding Superstars to Your Team
What if you had a manageable process for hiring that didn’t take forever to execute? That’s the question that Hiring Gold answers in eight weeks. Click on over to the Hiring Gold page to learn more. The pre-sale starts soon, discounts go to list members (hint, hint). Hiring Gold is imminent. Enter your email address [...]
Hiring is for Lovers: Designing Organizations for Creativity and Impact
The importance of building an exceptional team is sometimes minimized by creative business owners. It is a “secondary task” unrelated, at least superficially, to the work we deliver to clients, often triggered under duress by an event: a huge new client project to ramp up for, a round of VC funding, the opening of a [...]
Your Mission Statement Doesn’t Have to Suck
It’s true. It’s not set in stone. If it sucks, change it. A poorly crafted mission statement can actually prevent you from reaching people. It means that there’s a fundamental flaw in your ability to communicate just why it is you exist. And since you should be communicating this information with everything you do, it’s [...]
