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If you are an entrepreneur starting a new venture, this book provides the information you need to choose your initial team of cofounders and employees. It shows you how to piece individual skills, talents and abilities into a cohesive structure that is prepped for success and follows with advice on how to continue using the same principles beyond the founding team far into the future. This is an examination of four key issues entrepreneurs face in finding and utilizing human resources to achieve success in their new venture.
About the author
Robert A. Baron is Spears Chair of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. He has held faculty appointments at RPI, Purdue, the Universities of Minnesota, Texas, South Carolina, Washington, Princeton University, and Oxford University. He served as a Program Director at NSF (1979-1981), and was appointed as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow by the French Ministry of Research (2001-2002; Toulouse). Baron is a Fellow of APA, SIOP, and a Charter Fellow of APS. He has published more than one hundred and twenty articles and forty-five chapters, and is the author of 49 books in management and psychology. Prof. Baron serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals (e.g. AMJ, SEJ) . He holds three U.S. patents and was founder and CEO of IEP, Inc. (1993-2000).
Summary
Provides the information you need to choose your initial team of cofounders and employees. This book shows you how to piece individual skills, talents and abilities into a cohesive structure that is prepped for success and follows with advice on how to continue using the same principles beyond the founding team far into the future.
