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8 Employees Start at eROI in Next 3 Weeks - Oh My!
September 3, 2007
It's fascinating to me that growth stages happen as step functions, instead of nice and gradual. But, this blog post isn't about a systematic analysis of our growth and how we've gotten here. This is an emotional response filled with excitement and fear.
Excitement:
- The talent, knowledge, and dynamic personalities of these 8 programmers, designers, and account executives is mind-blowing.
- Finally, we have more bandwidth to tackle some huge product development initiatives.
- Cross-polination and cross-training. These experienced new employees can add a lot of value from their diverse perspectives and will certainly learn a lot from the eROI team on the online marketing front.
Fear:
- We are get our act together to create a formalized process for New Employee orientation and a Peer Mentor program. A training program and ad-hoc training all need to happen starting this Tuesday!
- Culture. Culture. Culture. We've got to work hard to make sure everyone gets integrated on a personal level, not just the professional ones. I guess I need to line up some Happy Hours / Cranker Nights and maybe some more communal digging in the dirt like at Zenger Farm.
- Lastly, it's a wee-bit expensive to add so many great new employees at the same time, but fortunately our sales growth can support it.
Life would be boring if you just stayed the course and slowly plodded along. Dare to dream - that's what all of us are doing at eROI - let us know if you want to dream with us.
Posted by ryan at September 3, 2007 7:43 AM
Comments
Congratulations, ryan and gang! Remember 2 things - riding bikes can enhance developing cultures and its only money :) - keep up with your great work!
Posted by: Bob Glaza at September 5, 2007 9:51 AM
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