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"You can hire people away from your friends’ companies without damaging your relationship with that friend. You can fight to retain people while they’re being aggressively approached by other companies. Sometimes you will win, and sometimes you will lose. But through it all, you should keep a very important lesson in mind: You must refuse to engage in any agreements with other companies that insist you not hire from each other. Because that’s bad business. Plain and simple."

http://www.eliastorres.com/blog/how-to-fight-illegal-recruit...