When I find myself putting a new team or department together, one of the first areas I pay attention to is identity as, in my experience, it can be one of the most powerful motivators for any group of people. As we start to build our our technical team here in InvoiceFair, team identity has... Continue Reading →
"What if I told you we were putting a team together?"Tony Stark aka Iron Man "I'm putting together a team, people with special abilities..."Bruce Wayne aka Batman When we're recruiting a new team, or augmenting an existing team, this is what we want candidates to think. We want them to believe they're joining an elite... Continue Reading →
A candidate dropped out of our recruitment process last week. This was particularly tough as I had approached the candidate directly (we had worked in the same company a number of years ago) and we had a number of conversations on the role which I think we both felt was a good fit. Truth be... Continue Reading →
What did Kevin Do? Did you happen to read "We Need To Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver? The entire book progresses hinting at some great tragedy, but without actually revealing the full extent until close to the end (at least that's how I remember it). The book, written in the form of letters from... Continue Reading →
And why having to is probably down to you American Writer and Nobel Prize laureate William Falkner originally proposed that 'in writing you must kill all your darlings'. A simple enough line that has been subjected to much analysis. Falkner's line is taken to mean that a writer must let go of the elements of... Continue Reading →
Bows and Arrows 