Hiring – The Musings of the Big Red Car

CEO Shoptalk: Doing The Bloody Work

Big Red Car — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:00:35 +0000

Other day a CEO who had been a client pre-Pandemic calls me and wants to chat about the difficulties of getting folks back to the office who had been weaned from the office whilst working from home during the Pandemic and post-Pandemic, hardly a novel topic. As I often do, I explored the basis for […]

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Diversity

Big Red Car — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:50:34 +0000

Today we talk diversity in a big sun ATX day — 65F with just a few clouds. So, the issue of diversity keeps being bandied about. I was speaking to a person with whom I had worked as a CEO for about a dozen years. We were trying to assess whether that company was “diverse.” He […]

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Scaling Sales — One Index Card Shop Talk

Big Red Car — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:56:14 +0000

Big Red Car here talking scaling sales on a lovely — no, cloudy and gray — day in the ATX. On Earth as it is in Texas, y’all! So, the Big Red Car comes from the school of SALES SOLVES EVERYTHING which means that CEOs need to focus on sales from the first day they […]

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Thoughts on Hiring

Big Red Car — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:31:40 +0000

Big Red Car here in the beautiful ATX. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, we have a day like today and a day like yesterday. On Earth as it is in Texas! Hiring is one of the things about building a great startup that is alluded to with a backhanded swipe of […]

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Hire Slow, Fire Fast

Big Red Car — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:27:39 +0000

Big Red Car here. The Boss is still skiing in SBS but the season ends on Saturday. Come home, Boss. We miss ya! [Not really because the Big Red Car and the house sitter are having a bang up time. It’s Spring in Texas and the azaleas and bluebonnets are in bloom. Life is good […]

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