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Company Culture

School's Out Forever: Hiring the Best New Grads

Josh Tolan | Posted 05.21.2013 | Business
Josh Tolan

College students all over the country are turning the tassel on their graduation caps this month and entering the job search. This can mean great things for your company, as top-notch entry-level talent is flooding the job market.

6 Career Fair Tips to Find the Best Interns

Ashley Mosley | Posted 06.04.2013 | Business
Ashley Mosley

Career fairs can be great places to connect with the talent of the future. By following some of these tips, you'll be able to uncover the very best intern candidates.

Culture Shock -- Why Businesses Must Be Open to Cultural Evolution

Gil Laroya | Posted 06.01.2013 | Business
Gil Laroya

Workers today are smarter, more flexible, more thoughtful and more creative. Corporations need to leverage these traits, not cover them up with mindless surveys and questionnaires.

Bridging the Gap: Enrolling Employees Into Your Company Culture

Nick Friedman | Posted 05.05.2013 | Small Business
Nick Friedman

You've worked hard to create a solid company culture. But without incorporating, and even more importantly, enrolling your employees into this culture, its benefits to the success of your business are moot.

Dispelling Three Leading Myths that Can Impede a Strategic Work Model

Allison O'Kelly | Posted 01.19.2013 | Business
Allison O'Kelly

The benefits of flexibility to employees translate into strong, measurable positive outcomes for companies. They go hand in hand, and as attracting skilled workers and professionals in general becomes more of a challenge, organizations that offer progressive workplace programs will remain highly competitive.

America's Innovative Companies Are Going Flat

Zev Gotkin | Posted 12.17.2012 | Business
Zev Gotkin

The top-heavy hierarchy is so ingrained in the American psyche that doing things differently means changing the way people think about work.

The Secrets to a Healthy Company Culture (Hint: Get It Right From the Start)

Chelsea Brownridge | Posted 12.15.2012 | Impact
Chelsea Brownridge

Startups are in the perfect position to reap all of the benefits of a strong organization culture. The early days of a company's life are the most important time to find your team culture.

5 Key Questions to Gauge the Culture in Your Startup

Marty Zwilling | Posted 12.04.2012 | Business
Marty Zwilling

There is no ultimate right or wrong in a culture, but there are attributes that will be right or wrong for you, or your investors.

5 Hiring Lessons From Apple and the iPhone 5

Josh Tolan | Posted 11.26.2012 | Business
Josh Tolan

When looking for advice on how to update your hiring methods to find great candidates, move your company forward, and cut down on unemployment, there isn't a much better example than Apple.

OH BEEEHAAAVE! Winning the Talent War and Keeping Customers Extremely Happy

Julie Kantor | Posted 11.05.2012 | Business
Julie Kantor

Austin Powers didn't just make us laugh, he had a good point for America's employers. We need to behave much more to increase employee and customer loyalty. We have to out-behave the competition!

Personal Growth From Failure

Rayanne Thorn | Posted 10.28.2012 | Business
Rayanne Thorn

In 2007, I worked on a retention campaign within a small tech start-up. I loved my job and it was made even better by the fact that I hired most of the people on the floor that I daily walked.

Corporate Culture Matters: Is Yours Good, Bad, or Ugly?

Meredith Haberfeld | Posted 07.19.2012 | Business
Meredith Haberfeld

In the work environment, culture improves. This is nearly universal, whether the company's culture is innovation oriented, results oriented, or any other orientation.

When Your Employees Thrive, So Does Your Business

Leah Busque | Posted 09.17.2012 | Small Business
Leah Busque

So how do we go about keeping employees happy at TaskRabbit? Sure, we have our ping-pong tables, Nerf guns, and video games, but that's just the start.

Should Small Business Owners Care About Company Culture?

Leah Busque | Posted 08.18.2012 | Small Business
Leah Busque

Startups should think of culture like breathing -- pretend your company can't live without it, and chances are, it can't.

The Conversation Company: Boost Your Business Through Culture, People and Social Media

Ekaterina Walter | Posted 08.14.2012 | Business
Ekaterina Walter

The core belief of The Conversation Company is that conversations between people are the key driver of business growth. A smart mind twist is the idea of 'unused conversation potential.'

10 Awesome Office Perks

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 03.30.2012 | Small Business

Great companies, even when they get big, still manage to hold onto their entrepreneurial roots. For many, that means carrying over some pretty awesome...

Innovation Is Everyone's Job

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 02.08.2012 | Business
Ron Ashkenas

The reality is that everyone has the ability to innovate; and if you can tap into that ability, your organization has a much better chance of success.

Your Employees Don't Have to Like You, But They Have to Love You

Robert Levin | Posted 01.07.2012 | Small Business
Robert Levin

There are times when an employee will not agree with a decision that you have made. If the employee is not thinking to him or herself, "well I don't agree with her, but I do believe in her so I will respect the decision," the employee's relationship is doomed to fail and until it does, it will be a painful one.

Why You Should Question Your Culture

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 12.13.2011 | Business
Ron Ashkenas

The truth is that most leaders don't know how to develop a useful picture of their organization's culture, which is why they resort to platitudes.

Creating a Company Culture Takes More Than Free Lunches

Angela Haines | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Angela Haines

Company culture is one of those buzz phrases that gets some managers boasting about Nacho Wednesdays and Bingo parties, but many start ups find competitive value by going beyond bells and whistles.

Rod Kurtz

Ask Rod, Episode 27: How Do We Maintain Our Company Culture?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 01.26.2012 | Small Business

Executive Editor Rod Kurtz offers tips on preserving company culture and converting online shoppers into online buyers. The original version of thi...

A Bit of the Pixar Magic

Jessica Verrilli | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Jessica Verrilli

Last week, the Founder and President of Pixar came into the Twitter office to share a few stories and lessons from his 25+ years at Pixar. His talk focused on company culture and was particularly relevant for a rapidly growing start-up like ours.

A Vacation Policy for the New Decade

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Penny Herscher

Why should we be tracking paperwork and forms when an employee takes the day off, but not when they work over a weekend?

Cult Culture as Competitive Advantage

Anthony Tjan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Anthony Tjan

The businesses that can create a cultural movement among their employees are few and far between, but those who do have an incredible advantage that they should recognize and do everything possible to celebrate and preserve.

Women Need to Support Women at Work

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Penny Herscher

Gender stereotypes already make it hard enough for women in the workplace but in tough times how women treat other women matters even more.