How does good beget good? And what are you doing to tip the domino? In his book, The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World, R. Paul Herman lists employee satisfaction as an indicator of strong investment returns.  He points to Wharton finance professor Alex Edmans’ work identifying a “direct positive correlation over [...]
Part of building a successful business is being able to let other people tell you how to do it better. Â Companies that set up mechanisms to learn from their employees, particularly those at the base of the company who do automated work and aren’t brought into weekly meetings to voice their say, see economic gain [...]
It takes more than one action to empower your employees. Â As simple (and obvious!) as that sounds, it’s what struck me the most while writing yesterday’s post on enabling your employees. Â Maybe a better way to structure the post would be to highlight tactics by company since each of the companies I included–King Arthur’s Flour, [...]
Employees are the crux of your company.  Successful leaders have known this for years. Take away my people and leave the factories, and soon there will be grass growing on the factory floors, but take away my factories and leave my people, and soon we will have bigger and better factories.  –Andrew Carnegie When you enfranchise your [...]
Click the player to listen to my conversation with Kim or right-click and save for the MP3. Â Either way, you should listen. I’d bet good money that most of us would love to have Kim Jordan’s job as New Belgium Brewing Company’s intrepid leader of good beer and good business. Beyond making (and tasting) great [...]
Click the player to listen to the interview or right-click and save for the MP3. Get the Mp3 Player Widget widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) Kim Coupounas ran a conscious company.  GoLite gave money to the community and recycled. Its employees biked to work, served on [...]
As companies, we spend a lot of time trying to attract the best employees, make them happy, increase productivity, create a corporate culture and positively present our selves to the community. As a socially driven business, we also spend the time and resources to develop practices that advance the mission we stand for. Chris Jarvis [...]
Click the player to listen to the interview or right-click and save for the MP3. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Like this interview? Â You can thank Chris on Twitter like this. With a poke in the chest, Chris Jarvis was asked a question on a street corner that stripped away what he knew [...]
What does a nonprofit board of directors have to do with your company’s social mission?  If you think  Not much, then your company is missing out on an effective tactic to boost your social mission. Your company can matter more. Encouraging your employees (management or executive level) to join nonprofits boards facilitates leadership development, supports [...]
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