Strong Suit 277: How to Build A Remote Team (Without The Heartburn)

Thinking about building a remote or virtual team? Thejo Kote can help. He’s Founder & CEO of Airbase. Based in San Francisco, Airbase is on a mission to simplify spend management. It’s the first all-in-one spend management platform that replaces multiple systems & gives finance teams unparalleled visibility into every dollar spent. Airbase recently raised […]

Strong Suit 276: Recruiting Isn’t Rocket Science. (Except In This Case.)

You think you have your hands full with hiring? Sales Reps? Financial Analyst? Try hiring actual rocket scientists & data experts. That’s what David Godwin and his leadership team have to do. He’s CEO and Co-Founder of Slingshot Aerospace, which has built the next generation of signal-processing AI. That allows companies & governments to use […]

Strong Suit 275: Secrets From a Retained Executive Recruiter

25 years in executive search will teach you a thing or two about hiring. And in today’s podcast episode, Bernie Layton teaches us about how to do it the right way. Based in Chicago, Bernie is Managing Director of Stanton Chase, one of the world’s largest & finest retained search firms. He’s successfully performed more […]

Strong Suit 274: How a SF Tech Legend Learned How To Hire

If you work in tech in San Francisco…and even if you don’t…you know Auren Hoffman. He’s been starting – and growing – and selling companies since his junior year at UC Berkeley. This master networker cofounded Rapleaf, which was acquired by TowerData. He then led the middleware-provider LiveRamp which was acquired by Acxiom for $300M. […]

Strong Suit 273: How To Win The Hearts & Minds Of Your Employees

Do you remember the Blue Shirts? This army of well-trained, huge-smiling, sales staff at Best Buy built the company to what it is today. Yes, they’ve been Amazon-ed a bit, but still they survive. The Blue Shirts are why. When everything else (huge product assortment, low prices, easy returns) are commoditized, only service will save […]

Strong Suit 272: How To Land The Candidates You Really, Really Want

If you don’t know the name Abakar Saidov, you soon will. Because he may have cracked the code on how to build a relationship with the candidates you want to hire. For years, I’ve said that “just in time hiring” stinks. By the time you realize you need to hire someone, and then start, you’re […]

Recruit Rockstars 271: How To Hire The Best Software Developers

There’s potentially no harder hiring task these days than landing Rockstar software developers. So, I wanted to find an expert at it. Someone who has a dramatically different approach. I found him. Based in London, Hung Lee is CEO of Workshape, the matching service for tech talent. It’s software that helps you recruit software engineers […]

Strong Suit 269: To Keep Your Best Employees, Prepare Them To Leave

Let’s get real. For your business to succeed, you need a team of happy & productive employees. Which means you need to keep your best people. Otherwise, you’ll always be scrambling to get new ones onto your leaky ship. But how can you keep your best people when we’re at 3.7% unemployment? And when 90,000 […]

Strong Suit 268: How He Built It From 1 Employee to 4,500 (And Fixed My Ankle)

In 1991, Mark Kaufman started as a physical therapist. 28 years later, he’s built Athletico into the dominant force in physical therapy. Based in Chicago, Athletico now has 400 Midwestern locations with 4,500 employees. And importantly, Mark had the forethought in 2011 to have a third-party start measuring outcomes… something not often done in the […]

Strong Suit 266: How To Master The 'WOW!' Job Interview

Rachel Ohlsson is a Rockstar who recruits Rockstars. Easier said than done. As Manager of Talent for Chicago-based Oak Street Health, the fast-growing group of primary care centers for adults on Medicare in medically-underserved communities, Rachel’s learned one of the keys: The ‘WOW!’ interview. Rockstar candidates who aren’t impressed by the way you interview them […]

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