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Can your employees recruit from a customer or supplier?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Let me tell you the story from one of my companies where I was chairman that recently learned about the recruiting rules that should have been in place – the hard way. My story of an employee over the line. The clerk told the owner, and the rest is history. Backing your way out of a bad situation.

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The Corrosive Nature of Over-Introducers

Both Sides of the Table

It starts seemingly innocent enough. Or an angel investor starts emailing the CEO of a company with all the people they want him or her to meet. I try to steer entrepreneurs away from over-introducers and I often find myself wanting to be careful about them becoming an investor in companies I back.

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Avoid the recruiting boomerang.

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here.] The CEO checked into a hotel that was a customer for its enterprise management system, and through a few innocent questions found that the owner was about to purchase several new systems for his new projects. No winking, sending signals, or quiet promises.

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What you can’t ask in an employee interview

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] John asked the same questions, but for very different reasons. Based on the military family background, John innocently asked about Sally’s birthplace simply out of curiosity. He knew someone who attended Sally’s university and wondered if the two knew each other.

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Micromobility in limbo: Takeaways from Paris and LA

TechCrunch LA

Plus , a driver in an SUV once hit me while I was standing on the sidewalk, innocently looking for a nearby ramen joint. “In a nutshell: The challenge with LA is that it is an open vendor market with no vehicle cap,” Spin’s chief executive Philip Reinckens said in an email to TechCrunch.

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

“I truly believe the ‘girlboss’ term was created to celebrate an emerging wave of female leaders – which is still rare in business, and was even rarer around 10 years ago when the phrase was popularized,” Green told TechCrunch in an email. . And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If

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