David Blake, CEO and Co-Founder of Degreed, discusses his unique interview style, their mission-driven organization, their amazing retention rates, and more on this episode of The Best Team Wins Podcast. Follow Degreed on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Youtube, and Linkedin. Connect with David on Degreed, Linkedin, and Twitter. … Read More
Why You Should Hire “B” Students
LISNR, a CNBC Top 50 Tech Disruptor two years in a row, doesn’t recruit straight-A students but looks for the folks that got B’s in school. Rodney Williams, LISNR CEO and Co-Founder, is a big believer in this human capital strategy at startups and after maintaining massive growth at the ground-breaking tech company for the… Read More
When You Do Good Things, Good Things Happen
Before Facebook and Twitter, there was Arkadium. CEO Jessica Rovello and her husband started Arkadium in 2001 as a gaming platform and have grown their business to 100 employees who provide interactive content for top-tier clients. Arkadium is committed to work/life balance for all of their employees and it shows through the way they’ve chosen to… Read More
Becoming the Best Small Business to Work For: An Interview with Alyse Makarewicz, President and Co-Founder of AMB Architects
Alyse Makarewicz, AIA, is President of AMB Architects, a bootstrapped Commercial Interior Architecture consulting and design firm with nine employees. She is also a contributing author to the book Phenomenal Success Stories, released earlier this year. Alyse’s company has been named the Best Small Business to Work for in Houston, Texas, for the last four… Read More
Teach your Core Values During New Employee Onboarding
The creation and documentation of company core values is a prerequisite to building a strong workplace culture. Core values are the rule book, the set of standards by which an organization makes its decisions. Without core values, the culture is rudderless. It’s how companies end up with “culture by default” instead of a “culture by… Read More