When you recruit, you’re naturally looking for the person who’s best for the job you’re recruiting for. If you’re building a company that’s in it for the long term, you need to be careful about how you define “best”. ———– Let’s say you’ve built your foundations well. Your company’s known for treating its team well, […]
Values
“Could we use technology to help the sector really accelerate its impact?” Vinay Nair, CEO Lightful
“How can we collectively increase the quantity and quality of giving to nonprofits, to charities, so that they can raise more awareness, raise more funds, deliver more impact in their communities?” That’s the question that defines Lightful’s work – the company co-founded by my guest on this week’s Karmic Capitalist podcast. Lightful uses technology to […]
“We’re helping people on a fundamental level to be more sustainable” Hussein Allawi, Founder the Sustainability Show
From the high-stakes financial environment of the now defunct Lehman Brothers (“buy-and-sell in its most aggressive manner”) to putting on a show of some of the most ethical and long-term thinking brands. That’s the varied journey which my guest, Hussein Allawi, has been on. He took plenty of lessons from those early days, days which […]
BoP #005 I inherited a team that was bankrupting us
Not because salaries were too high, but because the team was walking out the door. After my first company was acquired, I took on a team that had 40% staff turnover. Meaning nearly half the team we had a year ago was no longer with us. In consulting, simply recruiting to replace the team with […]
LinkedIn is telling your employees not to be loyal to you
They’re telling everyone that their employer doesn’t care about them. There are two agendas at play here. First, bad news gets noticed. If I tell you that your employer doesn’t care about you, you’re far more likely to read my post than if I tell you that your employer cares. Newspapers have known this forever, […]