High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

Lewis has updated his widely recommended text to take full account of all legislative changes that have come into effect since publication of the previous edition.

The MANUAL OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT is a practical resource that provides staff development educators and administrators with a compendium of useful tools and techniques to meet the rapidly changing professional development needs of their staff. Drawn from hospitals through the U.S. and Canada, the materials address such crucial and diverse activities as staff development certification, finance, quality, marketing, instructional design, needs assessment, program planning, orientation, preceptorship, in-service education, competence assessment, and evaluation. This resource enables the staff development educator to benefit from the expertise and experience of numerous staff development experts, saving the time and money required creating these programs and materials.

With comprehensive coverage of topics related to learning, training, and development, this volume is a must-have resource for industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists, human resource (HR) scholars, and adult education specialists. Brown provides a forward-looking exploration of the current research on workplace training, employee development, and organizational learning from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology. Each chapter discusses current practices, recent research, and, importantly, the gaps between the two. In analyzing these aspects of the topic, the chapter authors both present the valuable knowledge available and show the opportunities for further study and practice.