Corporate Culture


Recent Corporate Culture Articles

6 Ways to Spread the Holiday Spirit

Aside from a holiday party, there are lots of creative, inexpensive ways to bring your "office family" together.  Read more

5 Steps to Creating a Great Company Culture

Unhappy employees? Customers not returning? You can change all of that in five simple steps.  Read more

Why You Should Schmooze Like Don Draper

Forget GChat. To really connect with customers, vendors and staff, sometimes you've gotta go old school, whether that means deep sea fishing or ordering ever...  Read more

Why You Need to Market to Your Employees

Marketing a new brand and product internally to your employees could be more important than what your customers will ultimately see.  Read more

Why Some Bureaucracy Is Good for Business

A Skimmer's Guide to The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office, by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan.  Read more

Keep Your Team Together Through Tough Times

Every business has setbacks. These three steps can help you create an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to navigate past the rough patches.  Read more

Why You Need to Get Your Hands Dirty

When a start-up grows to a larger company, strong leaders should stay hands on.  Read more

Face It: Your Employees Cheat (or Used to)

Here's how you can encourage your staffers to be ethical at work (even if they haven't always been).  Read more

How to Manage Millennials

The delicate art of building a culture that embraces employees of all ages, from Baby Boomers to Millennials.  Read more

10 Dumb Lies That Lousy Bosses Tell

Telling the simple truth is far more productive than trying to fool your employees.  Read more

Influence Your Company Culture (For the Better)

Benefits, perks and compensation may paint a rosy picture for recruitment, but it's these intangible elements that make for a happy and healthy company culture.  Read more

How to Master the Art of Perfect Timing

As owner, you are your business's timekeeper. Here's how to tell when you should speed things up--or slow them down.  Read more

Do One Thing & Do It Better Than Anyone Else

Become the best darn whatever-you-are that you can be. Set aside your other good ideas. The rest will follow.  Read more

Going to Prison Made Me a Better CEO

No, I didn't go as a criminal; I went to teach the inmates about leadership. But they wound up teaching me.  Read more

7 Ways to Earn Respect as a Leader

Are you feeling disrespected by your employees? It may be that you're failing in one of these seven areas.  Read more

When a Client Relationship May Be at Risk: 3 Red Flags

Here's how to be vigilant and make sure your customers stay your customers--for good.  Read more

5 Reasons to Ditch Your Dress Code

Talented people are as diverse as the clothes they wear. You may be stifling your employees with your dress policy.  Read more

Don't Become One of the Worst Places to Work

Stay off any lists of the worst companies to work for. Here's how.  Read more

Why Office Hierarchies Are Good for Business

New research suggests that hierarchies make companies more productive. (But too much testosterone does not.)  Read more

4 Ways to Eliminate Office Politics

Backstabbing employees, turf wars, closed-door meetings. Don't let petty politics infect your business.  Read more

One Thing Every Great Entrepreneur Does

Visions, strategies, decisions--those are all important. But not as important as this.  Read more

Make Money & Make the World Better (& What It Has to Do With Your Brain)

When you do something altruistic, your brain releases a squirt of the neurotransmitter Dopamine, and you feel good.  Read more

10 Business Clichés That Prove You're Lazy

Recognize any of the platitudes on this list? Here's why you should stop using them--now.  Read more

Win Customers: 7 Small Gestures That Go Far

The features of your product are important. But it's the little things that leave a lasting impression and encourage people to buy.  Read more

12 Business Leaders Who Create Great Company Culture

Who's your inspiration? For these 12 young entrepreneurs, the answers include Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Hsieh, and a couple lesser-known founders you'll want to ...  Read more