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Iterate & Grow


Cliff Edge Performance
Show your employees the jagged rocks below.
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Do Me A Favour!
Be a love. Pretty please.
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Girl Friday, Gone Saturday
Know your weakest links.
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Be A Teacher
It's about the Why, not the What.
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Scale From 1 To 10
A great visual tool.
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An Ingenious Process
Go on, suck out the lifeblood.
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You're The Big Cheese
Give a catchy job title.
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Make Things Simple
It gets things done.
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Recruit, Retain, Develop
The holy trinity of effective HR.
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Commission Free
Building an effective reward program.
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Speak Last
You just love the sound of your own voice.
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Encourage The Informal Network
Find out what's really going on.
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The Gallup 12
Are your employees fully engaged?
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Solving Problems
The No 1 job of the entrepreneur.
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Giving Negative Feedback
When they've screwed it up.
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The Challenge Is For Everyone
Yes, the whole team.
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Your Employment Contract
It's your business, but you still need a contract.
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Coach, Mentor, Advisor, Trainer
Which one do you need?
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Being Comfortable Is The Enemy
Paranoia rules.
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Extraordinary Performance
With ordinary people.
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Be More Prickly
It will sharpen things up.
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Get A Grip
Often founders just cannot let go.
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What Works?
The 4 big wins for employee retention.
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Points Of Tension
The starting point for organisational design.
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Take The Red Pill
The thrills of matrix management.
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Success A Successor
Find your replacement and move on up.
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Beware Enthusiastic Incompetents
It's all about team dynamics.
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Spinning Plates
Just keep them in the air.
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Fuck Consensus
You're not building a democracy.
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Embrace The Oldies
The coolest sound in your hit parade.
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Fire Yourself
Establish clear business principles & step back.
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Toy Story
Work is not the best place to make lifelong friends.
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Smelling A Rat
Make sure your assets are real.
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To Fire Or To Make Redundant
Know when to use which.
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The Killer Interview Question
Don't hire a puppet.
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Flush Out The Failures
Find out how things are really working.
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Dodging the Traffic
A quick interview technique.
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3 Rules For Growth
Product, cash and process.
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The Humps Of Iteration
The real start up cycle.
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Fire With A Smile
And be human about it.
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Power - Finite Or Infinite
Beware the boss who holds onto it.
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A Question of Hats
The different roles you can play in your company.
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