The 7 essential human resources policies you should proactively develop for your new employee handbook, plus four you should absolutely avoid.

Four simple steps you can take to figure out the sort of assistant you need, what they’ll do, and how much they should be paid.

I’m not an employment lawyer, tax accountant, payroll specialist, or recruiter. (Yes, according to my mom I could have been any of these, but I went a different path.) That said, I’ve been involved in enough hiring over the course of my career to know that it involves all manner of issues. In my latest article for People Managing People, I’ve distilled some of my experiences down to this shortlist of simple steps to help founders and small business owners hire their first employee.

If I've tagged you, I'd love to hear what you think! What other steps should someone take before hiring their first employee? What parts of the new hire process have you found to be the most challenging or difficult?

It's not a bad thing to be a culture assassin. But unlike their ninja counterparts they don't wield swords, nunchakus, or throwing stars. Instead, a really good culture assassin is armed with other tools like trust, influence, curiosity, and knowledge.

In early 2016 the founders of the company I worked for decided it was time to sell the business. When I consider the craziness of that year, I remember the mixed feelings of excitement, stress, optimism, and anxiety that permeated my daily life.

In April Jeff Bezos released his annual letter to shareholders. He comments how corporate cultures, for better or for worse, are enduring, stable, hard to change.