Recommended Reading: April 24, 2015
24.04.2015
At first glance, Google's salary model looks unfair because not all employees in the same position earn the same amount. Since talent in a team is not normally distributed, but corresponds to the so-called "power law" distribution, i.e. most employees perform below average and there are only a few, but very blatant, outliers, they must also be paid above average.
Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google – in German: chief human resources manager – therefore suggests the question: How many other employees would you trade your best employee for? If your answer is more than five, the employee is probably not receiving enough money. If the answer is even higher than 10, it is definitely clear that the best employee is underpaid.
http://karrierebibel.de/unfaires-gehalt-warum-es-funktioniert/
My start-up years: 10 things I learned from working at a start-up
Only discovered now, but worth reading: Matthias Menzl has been with the Swiss TV station for three years Joiz worked and passes on his ten most important learnings.
Does the Apple Watch have the potential for rudeness?
Interview with Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, at Gründerszene about smartwatches:
Perhaps the era of large, advertising-financed Internet companies and free culture is already over - also in view of growing data protection concerns. All the successful start-ups that were founded after the economic crisis of 2008 - Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp - have customers pay directly for their services and content.
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/apple-watch-evernote-chef-libin
THE UK TWITTER CARTEL: THESE YOUNG GUYS DOMINATE TWITTER AND EARN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EUROS FROM OTHERS' CONTENT
The online marketing rock stars take a close look at the Manchester company Social Chain, which apparently makes a lot of money with various Twitter accounts, "stolen" content and advertising:
In addition to the claim that 95 percent of all content is created entirely by oneself, there is a quote in the Buzzfeed article that makes Social Chain's attitude clear: "In the Twitter space, the issue of copying is like breathing."
http://www.onlinemarketingrockstars.de/social-chain-das-britische-twitter-kartell/