I have written recently about some of the reasons why you should make plans to attend Winning Workplaces and Inc. Magazine’s joint 2011 Leadership Conference, which will be held next month in Dallas, Texas. We hosted this same type of event with Inc. in Denver last year. What did the small businesses who attended take [...]
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 [...]
I am continually amazed by the huge increase in workplace team building, camaraderie, productivity, and ultimately profits that business leaders can enjoy Cheap Cialis by doing small, workplace culture-specific things for their employees. In an industry with historically among the highest turnover rates – hospitality – Winning Workplaces has reported on several restaurants that have [...]
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 [...]
Last week Business Pundit posted a chart of data provided by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on where 21 of the richest countries in the world stand in offering paid annual leave to their workers. As many U.S. workers know – and surely most all of their leaders and managers – our country is alone [...]
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