Book Notes: The Effective Hiring Manager This summarizes the book The Effective Hiring Manager by Mark Horstman Rating: 5 stars! Part 1: Overview Intent: enable any hiring manager to hire the right employees and…
From Mark Horstman's weekly newsletter Thing I Think I Think: "Somebody asked me the other day about what one character trait I would look for in a manager. I didn’t like…
Fall 2015--Companies are like bodies in a few ways. First, quality seems to be recognizable. A quality body can be identified by the layperson, as can a quality company. "Quality",…
Summer 2012--I know the team, have a basic view of what direction Kyle wants to go, and am as passionate as I was day 1. This period--about one month in--I…
09/10/2016--Ideally, a new hire enters a role that's clearly-defined, vital to tomorrow's business, challenging, and a fit for the person's strengths, limits, and interests. I wonder how often this describes…
7/26/2012: This is more fun than I imagined. I was sad to leave serving, but mgmt allows me to still talk to different people all day which is what I…
Summer 2015--Management of people, when done well, increases the value of output from those people. A manager's value should (I think) be assessed as a combination of delivering what the…
5/6/2016--Age matters little, is a misleading metric, and is overrated. As Tommy would say, "age is just a number." Certainly a difference of 50 years between two people is a…
8/9/2015 - After 10 weeks, here’s one major lesson from each of my journal entries: CAVU--Anyone with access to the internet or to other people is capable of using those tools--it comes…
7/25/2015--I'm not sure why HR must exist as a separate/distinguished department/function. Or, I can't reach my own conclusion of when a company has grown to a critical mass which necessitates…