Last week I was combing CNN.com on my lunch break. When I first came across author Max Barry’s article "Why I fled the office cubicle," I thought it was going to just be about how this 20th century feature of workplace culture and design can hinder employee engagement and ideation from the bottom up. It [...]
I was stunned to read The Huffington Post‘s headline last week that "Great Companies Don’t Require Good Management." The site was referencing a May 2010 interview with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, picked up by Bloomberg on February 17, 2011, in which the Berkshire Hathaway CEO said he weighed companies’ pricing power more heavily than their [...]
Citing Edelman PR’s 2011 Trust Barometer, yesterday the Whole New Web Blog argued that marketing success cannot be obtained without building trust with your customer base. A separate, new post by Erik Deckers of Professional Blog Service shares findings from a MarketingPower.com report which show that companies appear to have an opening, in favor of [...]
Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI), a software firm in Exton, Pennsylvania, is a great place to work. So say Great Place to Work Institute insiders Jennifer Robin and Michael Burchell in their book The Great Workplace, which was published on January 4. Winning Workplaces agrees: we named AGI as one of our Top Small Workplaces in [...]