April Resource Roundup

Spring has sprung and things are busy, busy in the Bureau community. This past month, there were plenty of conversations focused on operations, new business development, pricing, negotiations and teams. We also saw a flurry of recommended tool and resource trading. Check out all of the hand-picked favorites below and join us at an upcoming event or workshop.

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Hiring, HR & Resourcing

• Writing job descriptions: Textio

• Job boards: Bureau of Digital, We Work Remotely, Remote OK

• Reduce your implicit bias while browsing LinkedIn: Profile of Dogs

• Employee recognition: Bonus.ly

• 87 Revealing Job Interview Questions From Hiring Managers In Business & Tech

• 60 Performance Review Phrases You Can Use Today

• HR, recruiting, training: McCloskey Partners

• Company playbooks: Thoughtbot, Hanno, TEN7

• Resourcing: 10,000ft, Harvest Forecast, Pipedrive, Periscope Data, Float

Tools for Proposals, Projects & Productivity

• Proposal software: Qwilr, Proposify, PandaDoc, Google Docs, Doc Variables, Dropbox Paper, Nusii

• Billing systems: Invoiced, Harvest, Xero, QuickBooks, Bill.com, Bench, Invoiced, Tempo, NetSuite, Zoho

• Surface Laptop: Surface Studio 2, Surface Book 2, Surface Hub 2S

• Bug tracking: BugHerd

• User feedback: Userback

• Stock photos: Unsplash, Pexels

• Search technology: Algolia, Azure Search

• Website commenting tool: Punchli.st

Worth the Read

• Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

• Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose & Profit

• The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand

• A Mission With No Exit

• Open Book Finances

• The Big Lie Inside Project Management: Why Your Projects Struggle & Often Disappoint

• Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’

• Erik Spiekermann: No Free Pitches

• Ideas for Crafting the Perfect RFP

• Why People—and Companies—Need Purpose

• Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

• Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

• Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All (Good to Great) 

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

• The Go-Giver

• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

• Why Software Projects Take Longer Than You Think—A Statistical Model

Videos & Podcasts

• Simon Sinek: Start with Why—How Great Leaders Inspire Action

• The Secret Structure of Great Talks

• The Bureau Briefing

• Coffee Is Not The Most Interesting Thing About You | Julia Mayer of Dune Coffee Roasters 

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