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The need to
hire experienced leadership is a sign
of your start - up's success, writes top VC Ben Horowitz on his blog recently, but if you handle this crucial step in the growth
of your business
badly, you could end up damaging your company culture or saddling yourself
with middling leadership.
Successful entrepreneurs understand that the failure at the front line was ultimately the responsibility
of the person on top
with the flawed strategy, poor
hiring practice, or
bad management skills.
One
of the biggest and most common mistakes entrepreneurs make, which I have been guilty
of myself, is not taking fast corrective action in dealing
with a
bad hire.
Time
of Death: Houston's last meaningful drive ended in a turnover on downs
with two minutes to play when Case Keenum missed on his last three passes, and the Texans are just one loss away from their
worst season since 2005 — the year before they
hired Gary Kubiak.
But his heart is not at Chelsea anymore... personally, I don't really mind his «personality» and the interviews, I just really mind his performances... This is different from the
bad performances that are being put in by some
of our other players... Moses was just never good enough, Bakayoko is still young and adjusting to a new league, Cesc is being horribly misused... But Courtois, well, his mind is just not here, let him leave... get Donarumma, ease him in
with Big Willy getting more minutes, and
hire this Frans Hoek guy FFS!!
With the obvious trust Woods places in Begay and the Golf Channel analyst's knowledge
of his friend's swing through the years, Tiger could do
worse than
hiring the four - time PGA Tour winner as the next man - behind - the - golfer.
Matters have taken such a turn for the
worse that folk are even suggesting that the defending champions may struggle to even retain their status as a Champions League competitor for 2011/2012, and
with this in mind it does make you wonder just how many more setbacks club owner Roman Abrahimovich, who does have a ruthless reputation when it comes to
hiring and firing
of manager's at Stamford Bridge, is willing to tolerate.
In the midst
of a slew
of bad job news in Upstate New York — the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant potentially closing in Oswego County, Alcoa leaving Massena — the New York State Labor Department is trying to pair job seekers
with companies that are
hiring right now.
Sen. Liz Krueger is moving ahead
with the creation
of her NBA, or «No
Bad Apples», PAC, scheduling its first fundraiser and
hiring a staffer to run the operation.
In the teeth
of the
worst recession in decades, more than one - third
of the over 6,800 teachers
hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools
of their own accord, largely because
of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession
with test prep rather than real education.
The «
bad actors» in this case would be the studios, networks and possibly talent agencies responsible for their part in the wide disparity (not to be confused
with some
of the stars they might
hire, to spare you the confusion).
Continuing the trend
of hiring slightly over-qualified actors to appear in (typically) one - off villain roles, Marvel is reportedly in talks
with Ben Mendelsohn to play the
bad guy in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's Captain Marvel movie.
The outrageous stunts (such as illegally jamming the Superbowl
with a guerrilla commercial and
hiring strippers to bump and grind on the cars like a Vegas sideshow) are more than simply high concept gags: Zemeckis and Bob Gale squeeze the limits
of bad taste out
of these lemons for a deliciously tart cinematic lemonade.
Most will view it
with a jaded eye because
of his other works, but others will respect the daring (although over-the-top at times dialogue), the «purist» filming
of the project in Ultra Panavision 70 (a format that hasn't been employed in some 50 years) and the respectful
hiring of Ennio Morricone, the man whose most famous score for the iconic «The Good, the
Bad and the Ugly» is now synonymous
with the western.
Oscar has always had something
of a crush on Gloria, so an uneasy flirtation leads to his
hiring her as a waitress while she continues to struggle
with bad decision making.
The scary -
bad reality show that ensues has Alice regaling viewers
with long minutes
of her eating an iced meatloaf cake, opining about oral sex and wreaking vengeance on mean girls from her high - school days by re-enacting scenarios
with hired actors.
Speaking
of badly constructed characters, what the hell is the deal
with the hitman
hired to kill The Rock?
It may be hard to believe for anyone who's been keeping track
of Ben Mendelsohn's career only since his international breakthrough
with 2010's Animal Kingdom, but the man who now rivals Mark Strong as Hollywood's
hired bad guy du jour rose to fame in his native Australia as the star
of much lighter fare.
So it isn't shocking that Ravitch engaged in what can best be called cynical race - baiting (and, at
worse, craven bigotry)
with a piece she wrote on her eponymous blog bemoaning school reform advocate 50CAN's
hiring of new generation civil rights activist Derrell Bradford as head
of its New York branch.
A Minneapolis principal (who hates charter schools) recently told me, «If you let me
hire the best teachers I can find, get rid
of my
worst and extend the school day, my school could compete
with any charter in the state.»
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of a bestselling book before you
hire a cover designer (and spend up to $ 4,000 on a cover
with a
bad title).
Most
of the time,
hiring the services
of a professional consultant turns out to be less expensive because they can make sure that you get the best terms on your home loan even if you have a
bad credit history to start
with.
To the writer
of this article, I encourage you to call out all the banks and investment companies for their mistakes and
bad hires so that us who believe in helping our clients matters don't get mixed up and bunched together
with people who give us the
bad rap.
Else, non-homeowners need to
hire the services
of a debt consolidation reduction agency that can negotiate
with creditors new loan terms because qualifying for an unsecured consolidation loan
with bad credit is tricky and you can't get high loan amounts.
Companies that deal
with a lot
of money might not want to
hire someone who has
bad credit and owes a lot
of money.
Just don't
hire money managers
with a
bad history
of managing money in the Real World.
What a great value investor (
hired by Buffett 30 years ago) told me, «Sit down
with a Value Line and segment the great, normal and
bad businesses, then choose an industry that you might enjoy learning about to read the 10 - Ks
of the major companies in that industry.
This is an example
of how
badly things can go
with regard to house training, and why it is a good idea to
hire me BEFORE things get this far gone:
House Training Disaster: This is an example
of how
badly things can go
with regard to house training, and why it is a good idea to
hire me BEFORE things get this far gone.
The main spillway at Oroville Dam is riddled
with design flaws and so
badly damaged that an independent panel
of experts
hired by the state has concluded it's probably impossible to repair the structure completely before the next rainy season begins in November....
When Ron Friedmann recently derided general counsel for staying
with time - worn practices in their
hiring of outside counsel, even in the face
of the
worst economic crisis since the Depression, he heard from one former GC who said that large companies will not be abandoning their BigLaw outside counsel anytime in the foreseeable future.
On John's larger point about using grades because they're a «safe» measure, I'd simply remind everyone that there were
bad old days, when applicants to firms were judged on factors that were less than meritorious, and so if grades, dumb as they are, do nothing else they force a law firm to swallow hard before declining to
hire a Black woman
with a fist full
of A + marks.
This kind
of discovery happens more often than you would think in states like Colorado and Florida, which have many areas
with bad soils and many contractors who fail to
hire soils engineers when they should.
In the meantime, the court may decide whether to allow the agreement to stand or not so you could be stuck
with that
bad agreement for at least several months and then pay a lot
of money for a trial when you could have avoided that whole problem to begin
with by
hiring a lawyer to give you independent legal advice about your agreement draft.
If you happen to wind up on the phone
with an «SEO salesman» (or
worse, sitting across a desk from one), here's a script
of questions you can ask them to find out if they're worth paying attention to, and
hiring.
The recent Ontario decision
of Cramer v. Cramer serves as yet another lesson on why it's a
bad idea: disputes often arise, both spouses end up having to
hire lawyers anyway, and it takes a judge to re-draft the agreement to bring it in line
with the law and the parties» true wishes.
Both solutions will occur because the power
of the news media and
of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types
of information, the cumulative effect
of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations
of the thousands
of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help
of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages
of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers
of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping
with this problem which continues to grow
worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice
of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need
of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to
hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision
of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion
of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated
with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members
of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule
of law, the Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole
of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority
of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.
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There's nothing
worse than setting
hiring managers up
with false expectations because
of an outdated LinkedIn profile picture and then showing up for the interview looking completely different.
To make matters
worse, the average
hiring manager begins
with a negative view
of college grads because a full 66 percent
of hiring managers report that they view new college grads «as unprepared for the work place» (Adecco).
Organizations, ever more concerned about the cost
of bad hires, are applying behavioral interviewing
with greater frequency.
A
hiring manager can interpret employment gaps in a number
of ways — it can indicate you being out
of touch
with your industry and that you haven't used your vocational skills in a long time,
worse still in could reflect a deeper lying problem in your professional conduct or overall work ethic.
Hiring managers are
of the view that while a limp handshake is not good to start a professional relationship
with someone, a bone - breaking handshake is the
worst.
At the very
worst, this sort
of volunteer work will allow you to network
with others in your industry who would value your services enough to
hire you.
Moreover, if you have over 10 years
of experience
with no achievements it might be a
bad sign for the
hiring authorities.
Leaving it out may still end up
with the
hiring manager going through the rest
of the resume, but
with a
bad taste in his or her mouth.
That means a single
bad hire with an annual income
of $ 50,000 can equal a potential $ 15,000 loss for the employer.
Manufacturers don't want to risk the credibility
of their organizations
with bad hires.
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hiring game.