Company Culture


Recent Company Culture Articles

Bad Culture Impacts All Organizations

If even institutions with a higher "calling"—like those in healthcare, education, and religion—are bad at engaging employees, what can you do about it?  Read more

4 Tricks To Build Customer Relationships

How host dinners and white knuckles add up to big business wins, just like a football game.  Read more

Why A Caring Workplace Matters As Much As Your Annual Budget

A four-step methodology to show your employees you care--I'm serious!--and how it impacts your bottom line.  Read more

Make Your Company Culture Go The Distance

With offices and virtual employees scattered across the U.S., here's how SCVNGR and LevelUp keep connected, and stay cool.  Read more

What's Love Got to Do With Business?

Plenty. When your connection to a mission or idea that is so strong that it inspires you to take risks, your company can soar, and your customers benefit.  Read more

The Flip-Flop Company Culture

How my refusal to wear shoes and get a haircut shaped my entrepreneurial path and company's culture.  Read more

The Case for Building Your Employees a Tree House

Rope bridge? Check. Slide? Check. This CEO went out on a limb to foster creativity and innovation at his company. Here's what he gained from creating a zany ...  Read more

Don’t Leave Off-site Employees in the Dark: Get Connected With Yammer

It’s becoming common practice among small businesses to have employees spread out all over the country and even all over the globe. ...  Read more

Success Stories: Maintaining Company Values 

Leonard Lynskey, CEO and co-founder of Complete Pharmacy Care, talks about the need to determine a company's values and why passion is the most important thi...  Watch video

Editor's Letter: Living Your Values

How great leaders build great company cultures  Read more

TCG

TCG employees avoid the hassles of Washington, D.C. commuting by working from home.  Read more

The FruitGuys

This food deliverer's commitment to healthy snacks starts with its employees, who receive free produce each week.  Read more

The Squires Group

Nancy Squires left corporate America to found a company that felt more like home than work.  Read more

Veson Nautical

This software company embraces its community by investing in its employees' favorite causes.  Read more

Quantum Health

Quantum Health's employee-run "cultural councils" build and maintain equilibrium within its offices.  Read more

Core Values of the Top Small Company Workplaces

The crucial element in well-run companies? Leaders who know what they believe in.  Read more

Where the CEO Is Just Another Guy With a Vote

At Namasté Solar, nothing is more important than the idea of workplace democracy.  Read more

Walking the Walk (Running the Run, Etc.)

TRX sells fitness, to customers and to employees.  Read more

You'll Never Work Alone

At Menlo Innovations, all work (seriously, all work) is done by pairs.  Read more

Survival of the Smartest

Hopkins Printing has staked its future on cross-training.  Read more

Why I Run a Flat Company

I've always kept hierarchy to a minimum. Then an employee said, "Promote me," and I was forced to reevaluate my organizational structure.  Read more

Jared Hecht of GroupMe 

Jared Hecht is the co-founder of the mobile messaging app GroupMe.  Watch video

Editor's Letter: With a Smile

Exploring the connection between company culture and customer service  Read more

Innovation: YouTube’s Technique

The pressure is on for businesses to foster innovation.  Google does this by allowing their engineers 20% of their work time for exploring new ideas....  Read more

How to Create a Unified Culture in a Company With Multiple Offices

Crafting the right company culture in one office is hard enoughâ€"imagine trying to create a cohesive culture with employees all around the world.  Read more

How to Expand Without Losing Your Indie Culture

When your company is growing fast, keeping it true to its roots is tricky. How can you expand without selling out?  Read more

How to Get Employees to Care as Much as You Do

Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager , explains how Southwest Airlines sold workers on its business mission.  Read more