Hiring My First 20 Employees
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Business Strategist & Former COO at Mensah Advisory
Scaled a company from 12 to 400 people. Hiring was the hardest part.
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Efua was COO of a fast-growing services company for six years and now advises founders on operations, hiring, processes and the transition from a scrappy team to a real organisation. She is especially good on the messy middle: 20 to 100 employees.
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A closer look
Who to hire first, why generalists beat specialists at this stage, how to interview when you have no HR, and the hires I regret.
Our best salesperson became our worst sales manager. What I misunderstood about promotion, and how we fixed it without losing her.
The operating systems, management layers and painful transitions between 20, 50, 100 and 400 employees - with the templates I used.
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