Among the nearly 350 small and midsize organizations that applied for our 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces award earlier this year, 96% have a strategic plan. No surprise there, right? (In fact, I find it more surprising that in this tough economy, 4% are getting by without one.) However, when I looked at the vast majority [...]
One reason why many business leaders who don’t subscribe to egalitarian workplace people practices have stuck to their autocratic (or other) employee engagement systems is because they think it will slow down decison making and action, and thus impede revenue growth. Yet, as WorldBlu CEO Traci Fenton aptly notes on her website, workplace democracy isn’t [...]
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, [...]
Are you planning on starting a company? Maybe you already own a business and are looking to diversify your offerings and increase market share by acquiring a business. Either way, the information below, culled from Winning Workplaces’ employee engagement research, may be helpful to you. As part of our 2010 Top Small Company Workplace award [...]
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