The following is a guest post by John Durfee. John is an Operation Freedom War veteran and a manager for Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft Guns. Learn from his insights when it comes to workplace team building and employee leadership development from an armed forces perspective. I left the military years ago, but [...]
In this new article in The Economist, the chief executive of the Centre for Development and Enterprise argues that results in the People and Planet areas of a triple bottom line focus (Profits, People, Planet) are hard to measure. Therefore, while Ann Bernstein frames her case in an African continental context, she suggests that business [...]
On August 4 I told you about our new feature for email subscribers, a weekly people practices email geared toward improving your company’s bottom line. Tom Walter, CEO of our 2010 Top Small Company Workplace Tasty Catering, commented on that post saying it’s a great idea. This week he shared specifics with me on exactly why [...]
Winning Workplaces is pleased to announce a new, free benefit for our email subscribers, on top of the ones they already enjoy such as our quarterly IDEAS newsletter, workplace topic surveys, and event and network news. Last week we started sending out an update we’re calling "Your Weekly Bottom Line-Improving People Practice." The concept is [...]
If you were among the over 41 million people who watched the 82nd Academy Awards telecast last Sunday, you might have seen one of our 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces award finalists: outdoor clothing designer/distributor/retailer Patagonia. During the program American Express ran an ad for their Members Project, a new partnership with social action network [...]
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