🧭 Navigate Hiring & Find Success in an Evolving Biz Landscape 🚀
I recently had the opportunity to interview seasoned entrepreneur Dorine Rivers who shared some of her wisdom with us.
In this eye-opening interview, we discussed hiring strategies, navigating business models, and finding success in an ever-changing business environment.
In this episode, we discuss:
Mastering the Art of Hiring: Discover effective strategies for building a winning team, including the value of outsourcing and creating virtual teams. Learn how to assess candidates beyond resumes and embrace the power of in-person or virtual interviews.
Business Models for Success: Gain valuable insights on adapting and refining your business models in response to a rapidly evolving landscape. Explore the benefits of exploring new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, and how they can drive growth and innovation.
Conquering Fear and Embracing Growth: Learn how to overcome fear and take action in pursuit of your goals. Discover the power of acknowledging fear while still pushing forward, and how it can lead to personal and professional growth.
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I hope you find these takeaways as enlightening and inspiring as I did. If you have any questions or would like to discuss further, feel free to reach out. Here's to your continued success in navigating the ever-changing business landscape!
Eye Opening Insights:
[00:05:06] “I have done a lot in my lifetime and I’d rather than be the person who subscribes to what Malcolm Gladwell talks in outliers, which is 10,000 hours in a very narrow funnel and becoming an expert in that. I've, I've taken a horizontal look to all of this, and I know a little bit about a whole lot of things. And I have found that to be quite useful in the business of business consulting because it allows 'em to draw problem solving skills from lots of different areas. In fact, maybe I draw a problem. Solving skill from construction that actually has to do with product development in the healthcare company, for example. And, uh, it is actually has served me well. Um, even though it has been fueled by being an overachiever, it actually has come in handy yet many times.”
[00:10:51] “Talk about the beauty of outsourcing, which is you can choose who you want to work with, when you wanna work with them, how much you're going to pay them, and how long they're gonna work with them. So most of the time it's for one project and you need a specialist in there. And let, let's say you decided you are, uh, launching a new product and you're going to create a sizzle video that's one minute long. That's going to tell people about your product, and you are going to have someone put together all the visuals, but you still need an editor for that so you can find an editor to do just that project. He's not your employee. You're not paying taxes on him. You're not having to provide insurance for him. And all the many things that go with having employees. He's there for one week to do your editing. You pay him, you're done. If you love this guy, then you're gonna put him in a folder that says, uh, freelancers that I love to use. And you don't have an overhead for that. You have a single cost for a part of the project.”
[00:17:53] “And you can do a lot of things. I mean, personality testing used to be a big thing. I made a big joke about that and I wrote an article for Human Resources magazine one time about just taking them to lunch and having them drive and see what lane they drive in on the freeway, you know, and then see what they order. And for $5 and you took them to lunch instead of $1,500 for personality tests, you know, whether to hire them or not. And there there's some truth to that though. So that in-person meeting or a Zoom meeting will, will tell you more than looking at a piece of paper that maybe they paid someone to write.”
About Dorine
Dr. Dorine Rivers has an undergraduate degree in creative writing, a Ph.D. in Business Management, Investment Banking and General Contractor licenses, and a few other degrees and certifications in between. She is the CEO of Alpha 81 Inc., an Arizona-based firm successfully supporting corporate innovations, expansions, and exits in software, technology, medical, life/health sciences, education, and other industries.