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All-Hands Meeting: How to Ensure Yours is Amazing and Worth the Investment

Let's Grow Leaders

” Of course, hosting an all-hands meeting or company offsite can be a significant investment of time and money, particularly if you’re having people travel in. ” One way to think about this is to not just talk EBITDA, but get real about “what I need from ya.” It’s hard to do THIS on Zoom.”

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Salary Negotiation Tips for Executives

N2Growth Blog

Look for linkages between EBITDA and your take-home pay. More broadly, titles, travel requirements, the work you do are all part of total rewards. Coming into a company in hypergrowth? Consider involving equity, phantom equity, or revenue-based targets to your package. Managing for profitability? Compensation is a lot of things.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. But this only compounded the chaos.

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Hiring Veterans Is Good Business. So Why Don't We Do It More Often?

Harvard Business Review

But consider this equally inscrutable language: The value is multiples of EBITDA, assuming the back-office cost synergy targets are achievable. Yet to our veterans it's clear — they know where they can get food, fuel, and ammunition. The military, of course, is known for its reliance on jargon and acronyms.

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