HR & Leadership
3 Questions to Help Startup CEOs Have a Powerful Start to the Year
After the ball drops, after your team comes back from travel or hibernation, after you have your first leadership team...
by Alisa Cohn
HR & Leadership
The Trick to Being a Great Leader? Getting Out of Your Head.
"It's so frustrating," Jason said about a month after I started coaching him. Jason is the Founder & CEO of...
by Alisa Cohn
HR & Leadership
Scaling Beyond 100 Employees: A Guide to Building the Best Leadership Team
“My leadership team is driving me crazy,” Ron told me. I nodded. That happens more often than you’d think. Ron...
by Alisa Cohn
HR & Leadership
How to "Co-Founder"
“I’m concerned,” Jeremy announced when we got together early in the spring. Jeremy is the CTO of an infrastructure startup...
by Alisa Cohn
HR & Leadership
Leading Through Scale: Mindset, People, Systems
"I have bad news for you," I told Roger. There is definitely a bottleneck in the organization. And I'm afraid...
by Alisa Cohn
HR & Leadership
How to Have a Better Board Meeting
I remember the first time I sat in on a board meeting of a medium-sized public technology company. I sat...
by Alisa Cohn
HR & Leadership
How to Conduct Performance Appraisals that aren't Terrible
Editor's Note: This article first appeared on the author's blog here. "We're working on performance appraisals, and I feel a...
by Alisa Cohn