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Performance Appraisal: The Ultimate Guide

AIHR

Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) The Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) method uses a predefined set of performance standards with specific behaviors describing each level of performance. As you can see here, they use a five-point scale mapped on three competency levels.

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Why Most Companies Fail At Moving Up or Down Market

Brian Balfour

If you lack one of the fits, you either don't reach the scale of $100M+ or grow so slowly that venture investors aren't interested. As a result they've differentiated their product on the things that enterprise customers care about: customization, security, and scale (that's their Market Product Fit).

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How to Embrace Constant Change in Growth

Brian Balfour

Across the board, our strategy and tactics from acquisition to activation, retention, revenue and referral need to evolve in sync. But in 2012 Facebook changed the rules of the game and in an instant completely shut off Zynga’s only growth channel overnight. As channels come and go we need to adapt with them.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

And launching and scaling these products requires a mastery of “network effects,” one of the most-used but misunderstood jargon terms in the industry. It wasn’t until 2012, at the beginning of the explosion in mobile apps, that yet another generation of dating apps would emerge.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. Increase benefits: Guaranteed revenue, online payments. but enough did.

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Burning Man’s Key Lessons On The Social Dynamics Of Community Based Work Culture

15Five

I’ve observed the event for years and I first noticed a shift around 2011 or 2012, when Burning Man first sold out of tickets in advance of the event. Because the city appears out of the dust literally within a span of days, it’s a phenomenal laboratory for observing how social structures emerge and are influenced by individuals.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. Increase benefits: Guaranteed revenue, online payments. but enough did.