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Getting Emotional 18 May 2013 | 10:40 pm
So, there I stood, in front of my whole team - it was 8am, and people strolled in for our monthly team meeting. The projectors were fired up to bring in Aleyda and other folks from around the country...
Ending the culture of the offer letter negotiation 8 May 2013 | 05:40 am
Isn’t it time we make offer letters non-negotiable? Companies, isn’t it time we just make true offers? Companies want people to come in day 1 stoked to work there and adding value, yet the path to ge...
80 hires, 30 gone in 5 years, a data driven and heart driven look at turnover 27 Mar 2013 | 09:27 pm
I’ve talked a lot about turnover. After sending this tweet I decided to calculate the numbers, I was off a bit, keep reading. To me, turnover falls into 4 categories (there can be some overlap betwe...
Wow, Entrepreneurship has become really self-congratulatory 25 Mar 2013 | 03:09 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GTDRgzuW_No#t=699s That quote is from Bram Cohen, founder of BitTorrent, see it in the video above. I loved hearing him say that it is so succin...
Picking Mentors who help you be the best YOU 24 Mar 2013 | 08:15 pm
So, Brad Aronson (my CEO-BFF) - wrote this amazing piece on 42 ways to just inject happiness in people’s lives randomly. I am so lucky to have met Brad, and thank my lucky stars that he takes time fo...
Biting off more than you can chew is a GREAT idea 12 Mar 2013 | 09:21 pm
If you don’t bite off more than you can chew sometimes, how will you ever know how much to bite next time? So, I was looking at my travel schedule last night, and Nora could just tell I was exhausted...
Learning to focus 9 Feb 2013 | 09:54 pm
So I was in Nicaragua a few weeks ago as many of you know. While most people said, it will be good to have a week of extremely limited Internet, when I asked “why” no one had a good reason, it was al...
Fail: Unlimited Vacation time policy (applies to sick time too) 18 Jan 2013 | 09:22 am
So you are thinking of creating an unlimited vacation day policy at your company?? First step don’t listen to your friends - when I mentioned to friends that SEER was moving to unlimited vacation tim...
Leaving my startup to support Nora's startup 17 Jan 2013 | 09:36 am
Saturday I fly to the most remote place on the planet and drive on the worst roads, all in the name of clean drinking water for all, and showing my wife that I got her back. (Villagers digging 3 ft t...
9 steps to liking your ex-boss / ex-employee, yes it can happen 7 Jan 2013 | 04:24 pm
Let’s put the 800lb gorilla on the table….People are skeptical of companies, so expect people to come in your company having LOW expectations and low TRUST, its important for companies to begin extend...
