
Why You Should Give Your Company Culture a Budget
When I’ve asked, “Why do you spend money on company culture?” to every CEO I’ve interviewed, they always respond with, “It’s the best money I’ve ever spent. It has the ...

Motivating Your Staff
Everyone has things that motivate them, and what motivates one person might not motivate another. Clearly, you want people in your company you can motivate in a way that increases your ...

How to Achieve Success in Hiring and Retaining Millennials
According to recent figures released by the US Census Bureau, the roughly 80 million young adults born between 1980 and 2000, collectively known as millennials, have surpassed baby ...

Does EQ fit in the tech-dominated future of work?
Does emotional intelligence figure in in the tech-dominated, distributed workplace of the future? It likely does.
EQ was a topic the other week during a panel discussion on the future ...

Innovation Is Easy! — Part 2
In my last post, I discussed how, as trusted advisors to our clients, our role is to help them innovate — and I provided a few examples of how my team is doing just that. Here, I ...

Why Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Too often, companies have a strategic plan, but do not have a culture plan. Any company without a culture plan to “operationalize” your strategy is putting its success at risk.
“Culture ...

Millennial Generation a Dominant Force
With the millennial generation a dominant force in the work world, having a top company culture is more important than ever. This fast-growing demographic is more apt than ever to job ...

Hire for Personality, Not Skills
While interviewing and hiring for skills is important, it shouldn’t be the sole focus of recruiters. The best recruiters recognize the impact personality and culture fit have on job ...

Accountability: The Best Cure for “Quit and Stay” Employees
Does your staffing service need a shot in the arm?
If you haven’t heard already, our country has been through a pretty hefty recession. From coast to coast, businesses have paid a ...

Hiring the RIGHT Employees
Anyone who has ever opened a resume with a prospective hire in mind can tell you that hiring is an art and not a science. Corporations have been hiring and firing people for hundreds ...