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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.” ” If companies want to succeed in this ethical age, they had better live up to those ideals.”

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.

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A Recession Doesn’t Mean Your Startup Can’t Grow

Harvard Business Review

Seven years after that infamous day in 2008, we are a post-IPO company with a market cap of over $1 billion dollars. Eight years later, many of these early hires are still with HubSpot serving in senior sales leadership roles. A better work ethic. To my surprise, things did not slow down. We accelerated our pace of sales hiring.

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