Culture
Internal Tech Conference Toolkit 16 minutes read.
Ben Maraney covers everything you need to know in order to run a tech conference in your company. As I was doing a few internal tech conferences at Forter (at much smaller scale), posts such as this provide a lot of great ideas to borrow. If you have 200 employees or more, sharing this post and setting such conference at your company can be the best thing you did this year.
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Improving Diversity Does Not Mean Lowering the Bar 8 minutes read.
Please share Kate Heddleston's post with everyone at your company that thinks improving hiring diversity might lower the quality bar: "The question, "we want to hire more diversity, but we don't want to lower the bar," places the blame for performance on the individual without taking into account the idea that the "bar" candidates have to pass is likely biased" -- if you care about diversity, make sure that experienced interviewers teach others how to interview without letting biases impact their decisions. Most companies never judge the quality of the interview nor its biases in the questions asked.
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Start With the Why 3 minutes read.
Figuring out the persona you'd like your company to represent is key if you want to own your niche and scale: "This marketing technique applies to competition, hiring, fund-raising, and every important sales process for a startup. It’s an invaluable skill to master." -- I've seen its impact on hiring engineers and talking with customers. The story behind the company, the reason for doing things in a certain way, the character, it all matters in the story you tell others.
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