Attracting top talent is challenging. Motivating talent is a fine art. Retaining talent can boarder on superhuman. Throw a startup in the mix and those three tasks take on higher importance. Top talent has their pick of exciting startups so yours has to stand … [Read more...]
Celebration Of Knowledge #6
Wow. The last Celebration of Knowledge. Great work. I hope you got as much out of this series as I did in writing it. It’s been fun. You should be proud that you made it this far. It was great that you stuck with this whole series. My hope is that you now have a better grasp on … [Read more...]
Five Reasons Why You Need The Media
By Sharon Sim-Krause “Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent,” said Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist author who lived in the 1800s. More than 200 years later, this statement still rings true. Organizations must find ways to communicate and … [Read more...]
Topic #22: Legal Aspects of Business
##Talking Points## * Just because it’s legal, don’t assume it’s the right thing to do * Lawyers are advisers not business people so you need to make the business decision * Given free reign, your lawyer will protect you so much that a deal will not be doable * It’s … [Read more...]
Topic #21: Organizational Structures
##Talking Points## * There are two main types of organizational structures: centralized and decentralized * These two main types divide into several hybrid types, depending on the organizations needs * The hybrid types include: team, matrix, functional and divisional * In … [Read more...]
