Damn Good Manager

5 Recruiting Tips from the Zoho Team

Andre — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:09:00 +0000

As we’ve discussed a number of times on this blog, hiring is a challenge, even for highly skilled and experienced managers. It’s one thing when you think about hiring for roles within an existing and well established business, but it can be even more challenging when you are tasked with hiring within a start-up [...]

4 Great Tips For Managing Attention

Andre — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:41:31 +0000

I came across this great article over on The Huffington Post today. It covers burnout, stress, time management, and attention management. At the end of the day, managing your attention span is a pretty important skill. Below is a great list to help manage attention. 1. Each evening or morning before you start [...]

Book Review: Lead Well and Prosper

Andre — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:55:38 +0000

As you can tell from my lack of posting lately, life and work have been beyond busy. I did, however, have a chance to check out a great little management book by Nick McCormick called Lead Well and Prosper. Although the book was little in size, it was full of great management information. The [...]

Those Crazy Work-a-holics…

Andre — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:03:11 +0000

The good folks over at 37Signals have just posted a great blog entry focused on the evils of building a team of work-a-holics. I’m sure a lot of us have been there, and I’m the first to put a stop to building a culture based on 14+hr days as the norm. 1. [...]

HR Talent Managers

Andre — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:58:01 +0000

Since this blog focuses a lot on finding and retaining talent, I have to agree with Seth Godin’s article about focusing HR on talent rather than the mundane. Microsoft and Google both have a very healthy focus on finding and recruiting Talent. McDonald’s recently announced that they want to hire people who smile more. The first [...]

Finding Resources with Recruiter Help

Andre — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:55:02 +0000

As you can see from my terrible lack of fresh posts, I’ve been a little busy lately. The reason I’m so busy is 100% related to the fact that business has picked up and we are growing like mad. Part and parcel of that growth is the requirement to staff up. We [...]

The Trick to Performance Reviews

Andre — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:40:28 +0000

As promised, here’s the first in (hopefully) a long and interesting line of guest posts. Mike King shares his performance review mojo… Most managers dread performance reviews, but not great managers. Making performance reviews easy requires a few specific things as well as great management through the rest of the year. You can’t be great at [...]

Call for Guest Bloggers

Andre — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:35:31 +0000

As the old saying goes, 2 brains are better than one. The same thing can be said for life experiences and in this case, management experiences. A blog like DGM is only as good as the content. Thankfully, over its short lifespan I’m happy to see that there are a good number [...]

Hiring Good People is Tough!

Andre — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:52:32 +0000

I’m going to caveat this entry with a warning that it’s both nerdy and technical. It’s about hiring good programmers, but if you read between the lines there are a number of important points about hiring good people, no matter what industry you are in. Replace “programming” with another field and this will [...]

Neglect is a Dirty Word

Andre — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:20:51 +0000

First day back at work after the holiday season and I realize I’ve been slacking in terms of fresh content for DGM. This looming sense of slacker-dom has inspired me though. By neglecting my blog I was reminded about the golden rule of not neglecting your employees. It’s one of the worst [...]