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Tips from my 10 most popular LinkedIn posts for job hunters. Based on mentoring, hiring and successfully referring dozens of candidates, and speaking with hundreds more…
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Recently I shared my career autobiography on LinkedIn, with all its ups and downs. Many said you want to try it for yourself. Here’s why it’s helpful to reframe your career failures as valuable experience. Followed by a simple guide how to write your mini career bio. And finally, my own as an example…
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Delegating effectively doesn’t come naturally to most people. I’ve coached many managers who struggle with workload because they spend precious time doing tasks their team is capable of. In my experience, great leaders and high performing teams have typically mastered the art of effective delegation…
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I reflected this week on my personal leadership principles. Then I remembered my “3 life-changing leadership lessons” from Deliveroo. I shared them with the company when I left in 2019, having joined as employee number 15ish 5 years prior…
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It’s easy to overcomplicate operations in a startup and make them hard to manage. It’s comparatively hard to simplify them and make them easy to manage. In 1960 US Navy engineers coined the design principle KISS – “Keep It Simple Stupid”. Here’s how to give your startup operations a big KISS…
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This is a guest post by operations executive Keir Tutt about scaling operations (learn about him below).
Building a startup seems like a simple formula. You come up with a great idea, perhaps you seek seed funding, then you develop a Minimum Viable Product, acquire customers and sell, sell, sell! Nothing else matters, right..? But once you get some pioneer customers on board and it becomes clear your MVP has legs, how do you progress quickly from hustling to scaling operations for growth – without everything falling apart?
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