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How to balance flexibility and structure in a hybrid team environment
Understanding the challenges of managing a hybrid team
How to maintain team cohesion
Instead, work together in-person on a great challenge
In-person design exercises are the second best way to gauge a designer's skills. You are hiring someone who can work with a team to identify the right problems, create the best solutions, and test the Real-World effectiveness of those choices.
Work on a design exercise with the candidate and you will learn much more about her abilities.
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Unfair Practice
It's unfair to ask someone to do real work for free when you're dangling a carrot in front of them. Many great designers don't agree with you. If you ask a great candidate to do a Demo project on your own product, they might just walk away.
If you ask a great candidate to do a Demo pr...
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Asking for Demo work on own product for Free
Two companies asked young designer to do Take-Home Demo projects. Both companies asked her to do Demo projects on their own product. (right!) makes her feel a bit Queasy.
There are better ways to confidently hire the best design talent, explains Daniel Burka, design partner at Google ...
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Ineffective Strategy
You know a lot about your own product. You know things that are proven to work, things that were tried and didn’t work, things that are easy or hard to implement. When an outside designer comes in and makes suggestions, you will immediately see the holes. "isn’t that great? that will help me choo...
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Match your workforce needs to your development needs
For many organizations, the workforce needs to depend on where they are in adopting, deploying, and maintaining AI. Organizations just starting out on their AI journey may have a large set of data that they have been collecting over the years, and they are now trying to identify what predictions ...
Other Tips From Jordan Peterson For a Better Life
- Consider that any hierarchy creates winners and losers. The winners are more likely to justify the hierarchy and the losers to criticize it.
- Understand that hierarchy is inescapable. The pursuit of goals lends life meaning and the collective pursuit of goals produces hi...
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