A summary of our experience with hiring and managing smart, passionate and social people.

1. How to
Hire and Keep
Good People

3. Marius Bugge Monsen

4. “Peopleware”
by DeMarco & Lister

5. Good People

6. Smart
Passionate
Social

7. Why?

8. Good People
produce
quality and quantity

9. Good People
make
other people good

10. Good People
attract
Good People

11. Hiring
Good People

12. Hiring people
takes up
other people’s time

13. Spend time on
finding
Good People

14. Don’t spend time
on non-hires

15. Stage 1:
Review submitted CV and samples of work

16. Stage 2:
10 minutes shotgun phone-interview

17. Stage 3:
45 minutes in-depth phone-interview

18. Stage 4:
A day of face-to-face interviews

19. Group interview
Individual interviews
2-3 interviewers

20. “If there is doubt, there is no doubt.”
Robert De Niro in “Ronin”

21. Keeping
Good People
based on Dan Pink’s “The surprising truth about what motivates us”

22. What motivates Good People?

23. Autonomy

24. Mastery

25. Purpose

26. Make money
a non-issue

27. Build
a culture of excellence

28. People
Fairness
Excellence
Innovation
Passion and fun
Learning
Trolltech Company Values

30. cutehacks.com

31. Images by:
Maschineneraum on flickr