In 1985, Paul Silvis founded Restek Corporation in Bellefonte, PA, as a manufacturer of chromatography tools for the analytical sciences industry. Silvis, who has spoken at our annual conference in the past and is set to speak again next week at our joint event with Inc. Magazine in Denver, has been candid about having the technical [...]
Back in March I shared a link to a Raleigh News & Observer article that featured two Winning Workplaces-affiliated organizations: The Redwoods Group, our 2008 Top Small Workplace winner and a certified B Corporation, and B Lab, the group of our Top Small Workplaces judge Bart Houlahan (who judged for our workplace award program starting [...]
Winning Workplaces believes that better engagement of employees equals better business results. But we don’t just talk the talk here – we walk the walk! The notion I mentioned above that’s the essence of our tagline is instilled in our nonprofit primarily from our founder and Chairman, Ken Lehman. It’s well known that the company his family [...]
One of the employee retention tips I mention most often here, based on its success rate at our award-winning small and midsized businesses, is hiring for attitude and fit – even over skills – to keep the atmosphere of team building strong and, thus, your workplace culture productive. Owners and leaders of these companies report [...]
A perennial political issue, and one that has become even more of a hot button this year in the run-up to the midterm elections in the midst of a tough economy, is the extent to which government creates the conditions for business growth. I found what amounts to an underreported Cheap Accutane story about how [...]
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