Opinion

June 24, 2022

Spice up your life as a startup people manager

As a people manager you need to constantly prioritise and focus, and for the executive team at Dance that relies on asking "The Spice Girls question"


Julia Carloff-Winkelmann, chief people officer at Dance

If you’ve made it through the past two-and-a-half years as a people manager at a startup, give yourself a pat on the back. 

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