Amazon has a new head of corporate affairs. Politico is reporting that President Barack Obama’s former White House press secretary Jay Carney will be a senior vice president at Amazon, reporting… Read more »
If you’re in senior management at a startup or a midsize tech company, you’re likely bored with and flummoxed by necessary but tedious back-office functions like HR, accounting, and legal. And there’s an even… Read more »
I’ve written about Trello, the popular teak task management app designed around Kanban-style “boards” (see “Trello and Atlassian are quietly making inroads and announce new funding” and “The 2013 task management… Read more »
HR departments have fallen behind the modern workforce. In most companies, marketing has adopted social business technologies more effectively and needs to transfer those skills to HR. Read more »
Checkr is a competitor in the new hire background checks space, which is seeing a lot of growth due to the growth of freelance work platforms, like Homejoy, Instacart, and so on… Read more »
I recently wrote about concerns about the role of big data that arose from Facebook’s research effort where the researchers sought to determine if emotional state could be manipulated by what appeared in… Read more »
I am a real believer in building in feedback into business, where management — and potentially all participants, depending on the degree of enlightenment of the senior team — can learn… Read more »
Small company Leaders are already outsourcing legal and IT functions. The Personnel/HR activities that Leaders want to reduce time on should be the most likely to be outsourced: Legislative Compliance, Managing… Read more »