Team building exercises serve to bring together colleagues, improve relations and generally facilitate a better working environment in the office. This can only benefit your company as a contented and motivated team will make excellent profits and sales. The types of activities chosen for corporate bonding events can vary greatly, from a simple socialising activity to a full-blown corporate team building day.
In a post on the Business Insider blog re-posted from his own blog, GRP Partners’ Mark Suster argues that leaders should solve problems and drive innovation from the top. He writes, I challenge you to consider whether you’re top-down or bottom up. In analysis there are always circumstances for each approach. But in leadership and [...]
Scott Shane, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University, has an illuminating post on Small Business Trends this week in which, based on U.S. Census data of 6-year-old businesses, he shows that the typical (or median) entrepreneur’s sales are below the average (or mean) sales in 9 sectors. Shane writes that this distinction [...]
This week I called your attention to an upcoming conference in Minneapolis on employee ownership hosted by the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) and the Beyster Institute. Also this week, NCEO appeared, as it frequently does, on ESOP consultant Aaron Juckett’s popular popular One-Stop ESOP Blog. Juckett shared selected findings from NCEO’s compilation Cheap [...]
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