Archive for the 'Company A' Category

How to Drive the Business Bus: Dealing with Difficult Clients

We proudly bring you another case study about “Company A,” one of our best clients that happens to be run by a savvy woman!!! I mention the founder/CEO’s gender because it’s relevant to this post…
 
She just emailed me to describe a situation where she’s pitching a marketing package to an internationally recognized businessMan and author. [...]

Employee Loyalty and Swimming in the Boat

Running a small business/growth business has its personnel challenges and employee challenges (as I’m sure you can appreciate), often in ways that are more magnified and intense than in a larger company where Bad Hiring Decisions are typically less costly and disruptive.
Last week, we posted about our client, Company A, who had extended an offer to a [...]

Smart Hiring for Growth Businesses

This week, I advised a client (approximately $1 million in sales revenue) to yank (revoke) a job offer for full-time employment she extended to a freelancer. Allegedly, the woman wanted to leave her current employer (a larger publicly traded company) to join my client full-time. My client gave the candidate one week to submit a [...]