Three bandits that rob your bottom line.
How does adverse behavior reduce your net revenue and bottom line? Why is declaring your organization’s values not enough? Many business leaders have declared their organization’s values. Their hope is that by publishing those values, people will treat each other better at work. This rarely happens. Why? Values and group behavior norms are two very […]
Business Success and How To Achieve It
Business success. How do you achieve it? How can you measure it? Some say you don’t achieve business success unless you measure it. Success means something different to every person and every organization. Some people view business success by how much money or fame they have. Others define it by how much time they have […]
Leadership Team Building Tips that Inspire Workplace Innovation
Your business is strong. Your team members are productive. You have a large customer base that keeps coming back for more. That’s all you need for continued success, right? Unfortunately, no. While these success factors are important, nothing stays the same for too long in an ever-changing world. Technology is improving at a rapid rate, […]
Does Good Team Work Generate Great Jobs and Profits?
What happens when business leaders “do well and do good” regardless of the economy? A rhetorical question? No. Absolutely not. In the wake of years of under-employment and wage stagnation cased by one of the longest recessions in U.S. history, a new report from The Hitachi Foundation identifies the policies and practices that are empowering […]
Seven Tips to Build Business Success through Team Work and Employee Friendly Work Cultures
Business success – how do you define it? Profits, bottom lines, market share, company size? Maybe not. According to employees in the Denver area – it’s all about an employee friendly work culture. Companies that encourage teamwork and employee-friendly work cultures see greater productivity and employee loyalty. The Denver Post recently published the results of […]
Encourage Risk-Taking to Bolster Team Building Success
Risk is defined as a ‘situation involving exposure to danger or failure.’ So when you mention the word, risk, several emotions come to mind such as: Fear Failure Stress Anxiety But without the element of risk, there would be no new discoveries, innovation, or progress – especially in the world of business. Without risk, organizations […]
Business Worries Keep 58 Percent of Decision-makers Awake at Night
Small business decision-makers from across the country reported an unchanged opinion about the U.S. economy. They reported, however, a slight increase in optimism about their own prospects for revenue growth in 2012 compared to 2011 according to a recent Small Business Opinion Poll. The poll conducted by ORC International was commissioned by EMPLOYERS®. The poll revealed that 44 percent […]
