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Wesley Phillips, CEO of the Hunter Barth advertising and marketing agency in Costa Mesa, Calif., was surprised to hear employees gripe about the strategic... Read more
Leadership
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Reach Out and Touch Everyone
Rusty Childress, president of Childress Buick-Kia in Phoenix, Ariz., believes in communication. At this car dealership with 105 employees and 1998 revenue... Read more
Reality Check
In these days of information overload and virtual offices, it becomes harder and harder to get your employees' attention. If they are seldom all in the of... Read more
Picture This
At Cincinnati-based Kendle International, the company's headquarters feature a special kind of art -- photos of employees. The pictures, which were origin... Read more
Truth or Consequences
No one wants to tell the boss an unpleasant truth and risk his or her displeasure. But in today's ultracompetitive markets, increasing numbers of savvy en... Read more
Listen to Your Employees
Customer service at EconoPrint in Madison, Wis., was in chaos in 1992 after the company consolidated eight separate printing facilities into a centralized... Read more
The Measure of Morale
"So many managers believe you can't measure morale," says Jack Stack, CEO of Springfield ReManufacturing Corp. (SRC), a Springfield, Mo., company that ove... Read more
Grading the Bosses
For almost 120 years, Hyde Manufacturing found that top-down management worked just fine. But in the late 1980s, when foreign competition began heating up... Read more
Bring School to Work
Nancy Sanders Peterson, president and CEO of Peterson Tool, had a problem all too common today. Many of the workers ather Nashville company -- which desig... Read more
Cross-Training
During a company's frenzied start-up days, staffers often have so many different duties that some entrepreneurial companiesforego job descriptions entirel... Read more
Show and Tell
Managers at FGM, a Herndon, Va., company with 1998 revenues of $15 million, found a way to improve employees'presentation skills while fostering workplace... Read more
Leading Lessons
How do we go about changing ourselves so we can have a fully empowered, fully integrated, and committed workforce, sowe all function as a team rather than... Read more
Let's Do (Free) Lunch
GeoAccess, based in Overland Park, Kans., provides its workers with five fully stocked pantries and has lunch delivered every day. The payoff from
Let's Do (Free) Lunch
GeoAccess, based in Overland Park, Kans., provides its workers with five fully stocked pantries and has lunch delivered every day. The payoff from
Making Work Fun
Offbeat workplace celebrations can help maintain a lighthearted atmosphere. Read more
Rethink " Employee of the Month"
Although they are popular motivational tools, "employee of the month" programs don't always improve employee morale. Just ask Dale Hageman, CEO of an empl... Read more
Play Money, Real Rewards
At the management consulting firm IdeaScope Associates, top performers get more than a pat on the back. They may be rewarded, for example, with a certific... Read more
Meaningful Mentoring
Michael Parks, CEO of the Revere Group, a Chicago-based technology consulting firm with projected 1999 revenues of $55 million, knows it's hard to grow a ... Read more
Doing Well by Doing Good
More and more entrepreneurial companies are recognizing that support of employees' community service work can help those employees feel better about their... Read more
Measure of Success
Wouldn't it be great if you could quantify each employee's performance before handing out money? Some entrepreneurs try to get a handle on how much indivi... Read more
A Greener Landscape
Employees who excel at their jobs often get promoted to jobs for which they're less well suited. Their performance drops,they're not happy, and the compan... Read more
Value System
Bob Dabic remembers that in the old days, it wasn't much fun to manage his workforce. "I got frustrated with all the little fires and personality problems... Read more
Price Does Matter
Company: CCAi Ranking: #418, 1999 Cause of IPO death: A last-minute "haircut" on the offeri... Read more
Fit to be Tired
For entrepreneur Seph Barnard, selling his company had nothing to do with money or prestige. He was simply too exhausted to do anything else. Read more
Recruiting Strategies: Orientation
Acclimating a steady influx of new faces to the company culture can be tricky for high-growth companies. Here's how several Inc. 500 companies are introducin... Read more
Hiring Committee Measures Candidates for Cultural Fit
At AGA Catalog Marketing and Design, a team of employees handpicked by the president interviews alllevels of applicants from the mailroom clerk to the chi... Read more
Create a Culture of Change
The years ahead promise even faster and more fundamental change forfamily firms. Industry consolidation, shrinking strategic life cycles,e-commerce, globa... Read more
Obit: Concert Promoter Hits Rough Road in Vermont
Big World Productions was successful as long as it stuck close to home, but new markets drained resources and failed to provide revenues for this entertainme... Read more
What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs
By revitalizing Apple Computer, Steve Jobs proves that there's nothing like a charismatic leader when times are tough. But could all that charisma backfire w... Read more
Superman in Recovery
An interview with Max Carey, CEO of Corporate Resource Development. Carey discusses his book "The Superman Complex," in which he offers advice on achieving b... Read more
Get Out of the House
Everyone should work at home. That's what the pundits were saying just a few years ago. The reality: whilesome people love the freedom, others have found ... Read more
Roll Out the Welcome Mat
It's the question that haunts every growth company: how do you quickly integrate new employees into an existing company culture? Start by enlisting the em... Read more
The Peer Group: The Benefits of Brutal Honesty
In the movie You've Got Mail , when Meg Ryan asks Tom Hanks how to save her ailing Manhattan bookstore, he suggests that she seek insights from
" Talk Is Cheap, Literally"
There are codes your phone company would prefer you didn't know--codes that would give you access to cheaper long-distance carriers that bypass your prima... Read more
Impress Clients With a Fun Workplace
When what you do leaves customers cold, you need an icebreaker. "People don't even want to talk about accounting, because it's so boring," says Yvonne Ang... Read more
