University of Iowa Prof: Don’t Underestimate Leadership’s Role in Business Success or Failure
August 31, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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Given this blog’s focus on how employee retention tips and other people practices lead to a more productive workplace culture – and how leadership strategies such as succession planning reduce dependency of the business on key people if they leave or are otherwise taken out of the equation – a reader might conclude that decisions [...]
My Top 5 Things to NOT Do When Business Blogging
August 27, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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I had a "wow" moment yesterday when I was reviewing my post history in our Compendium software and realized today’s post will be our 900th. 900 blog posts in roughly 800 days (our blog has been running since June 4, 2008) – that works out to about one new post per day on employee engagement [...]
Revenue and Profitability Benchmarks for Three Business Legal/Tax Structures
July 21, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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Today I shared with our Twitter followers a how-to series of posts the Young Entrepreneur blog is running on starting a business. One of these posts I found interesting is Adam Toren’s piece on choosing a business legal/tax structure. He helps budding entrepreneurs greatly by rating the pros and cons of structures including Sole Proprietorship, [...]
Dr. George Watts Wants You to Become Your Own Business Coach
June 20, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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Some of the best education I got from listening to the radio when I was still living in Chicago was catching Dr. George Watts on his "Business Doctor" and "Seeds for Success" programs on WCPT AM. In fact, his Business Doctor program interviewed our former Executive Director Mary C. Clark back in 2006.
In February, Watts [...]
Tell Us How Your Business Delivers Happiness and Enter to Win a Copy of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s …
June 18, 2010 by Team Building Activity Tips
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I am getting a ton of great workplace culture and employee engagement best practices information by reading Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, the new book by Tony Hsieh, CEO of the hugely successful online shoe and clothing store Zappos.
For example, when the company was five years old, Hsieh asked one of [...]
