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  • 1 week ago | thebrianfink.medium.com | Brian Fink

    Let’s skip the appetizer. You want to matter in recruiting? Stop being polite. Stop hiding behind your LinkedIn Premium subscription. Stop sending 47 follow-up emails like a stage-five clinger. Put down the tech stack, pick up the phone, and do what makes your peers sweat through their startup hoodies. Here’s the truth: Every recruiter can send an email. Few can coach a founder through their first hire. Fewer still have the stones to tell a VP, “Your expectations are delusional.

  • 1 month ago | nationalgeographic.fr | Nora Bradford |Brian Fink

    À la question « Qu’est-ce qui rend la vie belle ? » on répond souvent par une liste de ce qui nous rend heureux. Mais tout le monde ne mesure pas sa vie par le bonheur, et certains y accordent plus d’importance que d’autres. Les humains ont du mal à trouver une recette pour une belle vie ou pour le bien-être qui dépasse le simple fait d'« être heureux ».

  • 1 month ago | thebrianfink.medium.com | Brian Fink

    Leadership today isn’t about building empires. It’s about buying neighborhoods — then inviting the right people to move in. Enter: the acquihire. Acquihiring is the corporate equivalent of talent smuggling. You’re not buying the product. You’re not buying the tech. You’re buying people. You’re not investing in scale; you’re investing in potential. It’s not about what they built. It’s about who built it — and whether those builders can construct your next skyscraper. Let’s get tactical.

  • 1 month ago | thebrianfink.medium.com | Brian Fink

    There’s hiring. There’s acquiring. And then there’s the corporate lovechild of both: acquihiring. A move so bold, so strategic, and — let’s be honest — so ego-driven, it deserves its own Harvard Business Review case study… or at least a Netflix miniseries called “The Vibe Was Worth It.”The acquihire is not just a transaction. It’s performance art for the boardroom. It’s how power signals ambition.

  • 1 month ago | thebrianfink.medium.com | Brian Fink

    In an age obsessed with instant results — “crushed it,” “scaled it,” “10x’ed it” — we’ve somehow forgotten one of the most basic, boring, and brutally effective truths of success:Big things don’t start big. They start boring. They start small. They start Tuesday. We are so enamored with the finish line that we ghost the starting line.

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