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What would it be like to consistently attract high-performers?
After reading The Resilient Scaleup, you'll be able to:
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Create a vision that energises your recruitment of the top talent in the market.
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Have the tools to build a culture that your highest-performing people love!
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Kiss disappointing hires goodbye by using contract talent to skyrocket everyone's performance.
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Secure your company's future by eliminating key-person risks with contractors.
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Prepare your company to bring on extremely high performers in your next wave of hiring.
"We've taken on more and more of the team because each time, we've got one of them from Beaker & Flint, they've just been mind blowing."
Scott Bateman, CEO of property tech Kolmeo
Ready to see whats inside?
Chapters 1-3
Learn how to prepare your organisation for recruiting high-performing talent.
DIVISIVE VISION
A boring vision moves no one. You need to know who's for you, and who's against you.
YOUR STORY = PRODUCT STORY
Find out why your founder story must align to your product story and how doing so can supercharge your recruitment and team building efforts
PERSUASIVE VISION BOOST RECRUITMENT
Unleash the power of a killer vision to attract passionate people and ignite your business growth.
SURVIVORSHIP BIAS IN CULTURE
Skip the fluff. Don't get caught repeating the failed cultural experiments of others that distract you from your main goal: Growing your business!
CULTURAL OBSESSION WITH CULTURE
If you want to build a successful business IGNORE these tips from so-called culture experts.
WHAT SCALEUPS GET WRONG ABOUT CULTURE
Avoid these easy-to-make mistakes that do irreversible damage when you're going through periods of growth
There's even more inside of The Resilient Scaleup.
Chapters 4-10
Build a high-performing team and develop the RIGHT culture to achieve your vision.
REFRESHING YOUR TEAM
You need a plan to refresh your talent along the way. Why neglecting this process will cause your growth to stall out.
RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS TO AVOID
Popular recruitment solutions that will waste your time. Get smart, skip the half-measures.
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF LUCK
Timing the talent market is dumb. I’ll show you how to take advantage of life’s randomness and get the hottest talent onboard.
THE SERENDIPITY FACTOR
Life is full of time and chance. How this recruitment strategy will 10x your projects and make you the envy of all other scaleups!
RECRUITERS TO USE
Here are the key signs that you’ve chosen the best in the business. Lock these types of recruiters in for the long term.
BUYER BEWARE OF RECRUITERS
Save yourself heartache and disappointment by AVOIDING recruiters who do this!
HOW YOU KNOW IT'S RIGHT
This is the ONE really important indicator that every great leader uses to determine if they’ve hired right.
DESIGNING THE RIGHT SEATS
Do you have a compelling reason for why every position exists? Could you eliminate some if you designed positions better?
MATCHING YOUR TEAM TO GROWTH
Your business will go through different stages. Do you know the profile of the candidate you’re looking for at each stage?
HIRING IS HARD
Hiring is hard on the best of days. Avoid these costly mistakes that could set you back months or even years!
SHARPEN YOUR AXE
Don’t hire more people into your tech company without doing these 9 CRITICAL things!
MINIMIZE THE PRODUCTIVITY LAG
Before you go on a hiring spree, learn how to minimise the drag that can plague your team's productivity for MONTHS.
What else can you find in The Resilient Scaleup?
Chapter 11
Protect your high-performers by leading in ways that are proven to help you retain top talent.
LEADING YOURSELF
The one topic that can change everything. How self-leadership is the answer to all of your scaleup challenges.
LEADERSHIP DYSFUNCTION
Why startups and scaleup businesses seem to attract dysfunction and why you’re probably the source. Here’s how to resolve it.
ALIGNMENT CHALLENGES OF SCALE
How the complexities of scale bring exponential people problems. And what to do about it.
WOULD YOU REHIRE
The question you should be asking yourself every 6 months. Heres how to response when the answer is NO.
HOW TO LEVERAGE CONTRACT ROLE
Bringing in contract talent has wide reaching benefits. Don’t neglect this underutilized recruitment strategy.
WHY EVERY ROLE EXPIRES
No one is irreplaceable and every role in every company will eventually expire. Here's why you must build in role expiration dates.
THREE TEAMS FRAMEWORK
The reason your business will ONLY ever need these three teams.
Meet the Author
Reggie James
From all-too-familiar hiring heartaches of tech scaleups to the pure joy of landing that right person, Reggie James has experienced it all. With prior technology leadership experience at the world's second-largest investment firm Vanguard, he now hosts the Sprint Hard, Iterate Fast Podcast, is a startup founder, author, tech career coach, and Managing Director of B&F, a resource consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia that specialises in hiring and managing tech contractors that can accelerate your critical projects.
