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Every pay structure rewards something. Choosing one without noticing what it rewards produces behavior the owner then tries to correct with rules.
Continue reading Hourly, salary, or by the job. How you pay people changes how they work
The wage is the smallest number in the calculation and the only one most owners run. The rest of it decides whether the hire works.
Continue reading The first hire has to pay for themselves. Working out what that actually takes
The first meeting with a preparer is a two way interview and most people treat it as an application. The questions below take twenty minutes and settle it.
Continue reading Interviewing an accountant, and the six answers that tell you whether to hire them
Legal work is priced three ways and the quote you receive tells you what kind of problem the attorney thinks you have. That is useful information by itself.
A boundary disagreement is the clearest example of a problem where an attorney is unnecessary for most of it and essential for one specific part.
Continue reading A fence six inches over the line, and the four months it took to settle
A job posting that attracts forty applicants and yields nobody hireable has done its job badly. The point is filtering, not volume.
Continue reading Hiring your first employee? Write the posting so the wrong people opt out