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Ideas, lessons and case studies based on experiments with Agile Entrepreneurship.

Archive for April, 2008

The "Job Quadrant": A Counter-Intuitive Hiring Strategy to Attract Rock Stars and Super Heroes To Work With You

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Read more about Talent

Think it’s too expensive to pull high-caliber people to join your team? I dare you to think again.

I met a couple of entrepreneurs at a recent seminar in Orlando. Although their ventures are very successful and conversation with them was inspiring, I noticed how busy they seemed. Not just busy, but busy as hell, in [...]

WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces™ 2008 features MindValley!

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Read more about Announcements

How does work get done in your organization?

Freedom rather than fear?
Peer-to-peer relationships rather than paternalistic platitudes?
Engagement rather than estrangement?

If Agile Entrepreneurship is on your mind, you should know which side of the fence to be on.
The folks at WorldBlu call it Organizational Democracy.
There’s a global search and a international award for this every year, where [...]

What is Agile Entrepreneurship?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Read more about Talent

Perhaps you’ve heard it all before.
Perhaps you know about the need for “agility” or “adaptability” from the realms of personal development, software development, manufacturing, or management.
After all, when you can no longer plan, predict, and control everything in your business environment, you may choose to mutate quickly, adapt, and dominate.
That’s sums up Agile Entrepreneurship in [...]

How to use "Inside-out-sourcing" and the 6 letter organization not many entrepreneurs know about to tap into an endless supply of quality job applicants

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Read more about Talent

MindValley first started out in New York, despite the high costs of operating a business and hiring talent there. It consisted of three people –Vishen and his wife Kristina, and me.
We were excited and raring to go, and when we looked around, everyone else was outsourcing to India, so naturally, outsourcing seemed like a good [...]