Creating a company is unlike anything you've done before. It is the most draining, exhausting, all-consuming beast that eats every second of free-time, wakes you in the night, and demands sacrifices your social life upon the Alter of Hope for months - and likely even years - at a time. Whether apocryphal or not, the idea that in the 1960's, a member of the press (or J.Fk> himself) asked a janitor in the background of [...]
How do you conduct the first interview for new staff? BZZZZZ. Wrong. Trick question. You don't conduct the interview, the candidate does. The Mercuras Group 'Reverse Interview' process is something we developed to secure the top performers. If you've already engaged good people and lined them up for an interview, and you're genuinely excited to meet with them, then you need to impress them. They have options. You want them to want to work with [...]
Shiny Object Syndrome Short of Christmas and disco decoration manufacturing, there are few industries that endure so co-operatively with SOS (Shiny Object Syndrome) as much as information technology. Nearly every tech company suffers unduly from staff-turnover ratios higher than they’d like. Firstly, some turn-over is healthy; new ideas, new blood, new insights & innovation. It’s when we start climbing into the late teens and 20% that things start to become untenable. With tech, the strikingly rapid change and innovation [...]