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From Seed to Flower: Growing a Strong Network Through Direct Relationships

Yet2

yet2 ’s network has been built across multiple channels to include small and large companies, technical experts and scouting partners. Direct relationships are powerful because proximity allows for better communication and collaboration. yet2 was founded by cofounders Ben DuPont and Phil Stern in 1999.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent. This is a big miss.

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Why You May Be Blind to a Good Idea (and What to Do About It)

Harvard Business Review

I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies. My organization calls this method "collaboration by difference." The point is that each project manager proposes a topic in order to see what others not charged with counting the basketballs are seeing and what they might be missing.

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What New Team Leaders Should Do First

Harvard Business Review

People form opinions pretty quickly, and these opinions tend to be sticky,” says Michael Watkins, the cofounder of Genesis Advisers and author of the updated The First 90 Days. “If Maybe there is a project that you can easily fund or prioritize. The first few weeks are critical. But the team dynamics floundered from the beginning. “My

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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.