19May

The Inside Track on Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader

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  • A-Players, Hiring, leadership, talent
Entrepreneurial leaders are today’s rock stars. Celebrity business people, from Richard Branson through to Mark Zuckerberg are revered worldwide for their entrepreneurial qualities, and today’s business students dream of emulating them.Most businesses, however, are strangled by their own recruiting processes. Very few hiring firms have a robust, effective means of identifying and separating genuine entrepreneurs […]
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16May

Is Your Business Guilty of Unconscious Bias in Hiring?

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  • Diversity, Hiring, Unconscious Bias
The situation may well be familiar. Your leadership team gathers to discuss diversity within the business, whilst apparently failing to notice the fact that the group around the table is largely white, middle-class and middle-aged. Yes, there may be the occasional ‘other’ person who doesn’t fall within this primary demographic but the reality is that […]
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16May

Lost that start-up feeling? How to get it back in your growing business

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  • Organisational Culture, Scale-ups, Start-up Culture
There are very few things that are more contagious than a start-up culture. If you are lucky enough to witness the magic first-hand, you will have been amazed by the dynamism, passion and creativity at play – with a fluid mode of operation and a highly productive, exciting atmosphere that big businesses spend forever trying […]
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11May

Are you entitled to hire A-Players?

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  • A-Players, War for talent
The war for talent means that every forward-thinking technology venture needs to attract, develop and nurture the best staff. But even the best firms aren’t entitled to superb employees. They have to be earned. No matter how much you may want the cream of the industry’s top talent within your business, the reality is that […]
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09May

The war for talent: how smaller firms can steal a march on their larger rivals

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  • Start-ups, War for talent
Recruiting talent with the right set of skills is essential for the growth and development of any business. Yet, when it comes to attracting that talent, smaller firms can sometimes feel outgunned by their larger rivals. Talking about a “war for talent” may be something of a cliché but, nevertheless, is not a concept that […]
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04May

Succession planning for start-ups and scale-ups

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  • Scale-ups, Start-ups, Succession planning
  “There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It’s constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.” Eric Schmidt If the decision to start a business can be challenging, determining when to step down in favour […]
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