High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.
After spending the first 10 years of his career climbing the corporate ladder, Jeff Gothelf decided to change his approach to staying employed. Instead of looking for jobs, they would find him. Jeff spent the next 15 years building his personal brand to become a recognized expert, consultant, author and public speaker. In this highly tactical, practical book, Jeff Gothelf shares the tips, tricks, techniques and learnings that helped him become Forever Employable. Using the timeline from his own career and anecdotes, stories and case studies from other successful recognized experts Jeff provides a step-by-step guide to building a foundation based on your current expertise ensuring that no matter what happens in your industry you'll remain Forever Employable. This handy guide to your career and professional development shows you how to create your own content, use it to build your expertise and credentials and then scale it to build a continuous stream of income, interaction and community. As organizations seek to reduce costs, automate tasks and increase efficiency, how do you ensure you don't end up outside of those plans? Forever Employable shows you how so that you're always ready for the next step in your career. Reduce your stress, build your community, monetize your platform -- that's being Forever Employable.
When companies go looking for top business talent, they hire a “headhunter”—an executive recruiter. Executive recruiters are experts at locating star job candidates, leaders and managers of a caliber rarely discovered by the usual recruitment sources. And because business is growing more competitive each day and becoming more demanding of top-flight leadership and decision-making skills, companies are increasingly turning to executive recruiters to help them find the talent they need to stay competitive. This comprehensive guide reveals the strategies used by the best executive search professionals in starting and running their own successful placement services. There are more tricks of the trade in this business than in many others—and we’ll reveal what you really need to know: • How to network for both client and candidate leads • The difference between contingency and retainer fees • How to approach prospective candidates • Little known characteristics to look for in executive job candidates • The latest industry trends and fee information Learn how to find the best talent for hire—and make good money doing it.
In these times of change and disruption, HR must adapt, fast. But how can HR professionals critically assess their current processes and activities to identify what areas they need to think differently about in order to drive business results? This book provides the answers to enable all aspects of the people function to perform to their full potential. Redefining HR is a refreshing take on the evolution of the field of Human Resources and People Operations. It's an in-depth guide to the fundamental components of modern HR, and provides a tangible framework of progressive ideas and practices for HR practitioners, people leaders, and business executives. This is not a theoretical examination of HR. This is a book for practitioners, with insights from people professionals at the leading edge of HR's transformation from companies including Hubspot, Reddit, Stripe, Mastercard, Eventbrite, VaynerMedia, Asana. Written by a leading innovator in the HR industry, this book illuminates new perspectives and approaches for rethinking recruitment, talent management, performance and reward to save time, reduce costs and achieve greater business success. It covers key HR practices including diversity and inclusion, people analytics, learning and development (L&D) and employee experience and is supported by global case studies from organizations including Siemens, Upwork, CVS, Schneider Electric, Delivery Hero, and more. Redefining HR is an essential resource for all HR professionals business leaders wanting to create an exceptional people management function.
This is not your ordinary executive search, professional recruiter or employment agency book! This book will teach you - How To Become A BETTER Executive Recruiter...and have your clients addicted to your services! - How you can get the most our of your recruiting firm - In any market! - How to get more repeat business and referrals! - You will find out - "It's not about you!" - You will learn - The quality of the candidates you place with your clients will directly reflect the amount of repeat and referral business you will receive! Throughout this book there are tons of little "Hints" to help your firm grow - New creative ways to bill your services - Important details to cover during the recruiting process - Setting-up interviews - "Coaching" candidates and clients - Important questions to ask recruits and clients - What makes a "recruit" a "candidate" and much more...
Now hear from the experts on finding a job ... The most comprehensive executive job search process on the market, this book contains: -Over 130 pages with templates, examples, exercises, graphs, and lots of how-to's. -Over 100 questions to consider asking during an interview. -The single most important question to ask that most candidates never do. -Extensive chapters on resumes, including examples, do's and don'ts, and a template. -How to work with recruiters and get them to call you back. -Explanations on what makes the phone interview unique. -What you need to know about employment contracts. -How to leverage the internet to make yourself findable. The experts will lift the curtain and give you an inside view of what really happens during a job search. Too often you are given the easy answer why you didn't get that idea job. Now you can find out what you aren't being told, what most companies and recruiters don't want to tell you -- because it may not be all that nice. Well, it's time you hear what is really being said so that you can learn and adjust your search. You will learn how to quickly find a job by not repeating the mistakes of others. Written from the perspective of retained executive recruiters, with more than fifty years experience between them, Brad Remillard and Barry Deutsch know one thing better than human resource professionals, out-placement counselors, or career coaches -- what it takes to find a job. The accumulation of their experiences is going to take you deep into the real world of finding your ideal job. You will get an insider's look at what really happens in a job search. This is a unique and very rare opportunity to learn from the experts. Every section is crammed full of sound advice on how to find the perfect position from an experienced perspective that has never here-to-fore been offered. It reveals the dos, the don'ts, inside secrets, and the practical creativity that will make you stand out favorably from the several hundred equally or greater qualified peers who strive for the same position. -Rick Lamprecht, CEO/Board of Directors A must-read for executives in transition! For those new in their search, all of the basics are covered. For those more experienced in seeking their next position, this book goes beyond the basics and provides insight from the recruiter perspective. The authors are seasoned veterans in placing the right executive in the right position. You will learn how to market your unique skill set and work experience. Most valuable are the things you should ask before deciding if the position offered is the right position for you. Good read and great reference book for your marketing profile and interviewing checklist. -Richard P. Hooper, Ph.D., CTO This book was written to inform you of what lies ahead and, most importantly, to equip you with the skills, tools, and knowledge to beat your competition. Even shortening your search by just one month as a result of reading this book will put thousands of dollars in your pocket.
In today's fast-paced world, leaders need to move at speed. The rate of innovation and change in organisations and the challenges of impatient investors or shareholders mean leadership decisions must be quick, smart and deliver real impact. Superfast provides cutting edge inspiration and a host of exciting ideas about how to accelerate performance in an agile and thoughtful way, shedding new light on leading in a world which is fluid and uncertain. You'll learn the practical solutions to leadership questions which the most savvy global leaders employ, and map your own shortcut to personal and professional success. Leadership is not just about moving fast, however. Superfast will show you how to use your time in the smartest, most efficient way possible - slowing down when necessary to get decisions right and accelerating elsewhere to unlock growth. Stop waiting around. Superfast will give you the tools to lead well and make change happen.