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What does it take to become an attractive tech company today? Ping-pong tables, beer taps and nap pods, right?
Not so much, according to Suzy Welch, business journalist and TV commentator.
People give those perks “outsized importance when trying to figure out what makes one company stand apart from another," she
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"Go see, ask why, show respect." The words of Toyota chairman Fujio Cho have become renowned as the basic lean principles on which to build and run a business.
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Team building is a little like being back on the playground during recess, where you're forced to play with the kid who insulted you 10 minutes earlier.
While professional team facilitators swear by what they euphemistically describe as shared experiences that reinforce positive team skills, not everyone is so enthusiastic.
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Organizations can be obsessed with producing the next big industry innovation, and then become profoundly disappointed when it does not occur at the pace or scale they want.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento region traces its history to the gold rush, when so many came from afar with a dream of striking it rich.
Now the area wants to attract another type of fortune seeker: startups.
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“Well, this is a conversation we certainly need to have sometime.”
It's a phrase I’ve heard all too often from folks who would rather talk to me when I didn’t sound so correct. I’ve edited publications about communications, including one with “conversations” in the title.
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If you embrace your company’s mission statement, and it’s all soft, warm, and fuzzy, is that a good thing?
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Don't look now, but the topic of employee engagement is coming up again.
We've already told you how employees seem to be more than ever "quitting in their seats." New research only appears to confirm this, with employees actually trying to quit by leaving their seats.
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So the nap pods and slides aren't working? Not even beer?
Americans are still not happy at work — as evidenced by the fact that one out of four of your colleagues are thinking about quitting this year.
Unhappy, Unmotivated
Scottsdale, Ariz. business operating systems provider Bolste released a
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Glint's new update connect the dots for the company about what that decline in employee satisfaction or engagement could mean to its bottom line.
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The late US Army General Norman Schwarzkopf once said, “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
Everyone understands the imperative of effective leadership.
But it's also important to recognize that leadership and corporate culture are integrally aligned.
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It caught your eye if you saw the headline on The Huffington Post: "The Office of the Future Is Weirder Than We Can Imagine."
The premise of the article is what the average office will look like in 2045.
But the author, Blake Zalcberg, chief executive officer of OFM, an office and school furniture manufacturer and distributor in North Carolina, must have been so weirded out by office transformation that what
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The digital workplace is a social place, where teamwork and enterprise collaboration are essential elements of success.
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The office holiday party is more often mocked than appreciated, feared more than longed-for.
It's the scene of many an inappropriate body-part-on-copy-machine antic, awkward and inebriated testimonials, and inappropriate interoffice moments of romance.
And those are just what writers in Hollywood dream up about office holiday parties.
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