Herman Miller Inc.


Leadership Is an Art, excerpt

Excerpt from 'Leadership Is an Art' by Max DePree.  Read story

Take a Seat

Are you sitting pretty? If not, try our alternatives. They've been designed to make you and your office look good and feel great.  Read story

Tidying Up

A helpful hint for keeping the office clean: hold open houses for families of employees.  Read story

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on: selling stock on a European exchange, attracting new hires, protecting yourself from making bad investments, deducting Year 2000 bug rep...  Read story

Quirky Perks

Quirky perks In these days of customized compensation packages, candidates can get very creative with the perks and benefits they wa...  Read story

39 Great Business Bargains

How to get a deal on just about everything.  Read story

Waste Not

Ordering information for Making Less Garbage by Bette K. Fishbein and Caroline Gelb, and tips on reducing waste.  Read story

Employees as Contractors

Using employees instead of contractors to revamp the office.  Read story

Defying Gravity

Some of America's iconic companies took flight in gloomy times.  Read story

Office Space Anarchy

If employees get creative with their offices, will it carry over to their work?  Read story

School Ties

Is college housing the next frontier of product placement?  Read story

Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way

How do companies maintain values like frugality in their corporate cultures, years after the start-up has moved out of the garage? How can entrepreneurs r...  Read story

A Modest Defense of the Cubicle

The one thing worse than a cubicle is no cubicle.  Read story

Values Added

Do you have to be bad to be good at business? Why are American managers so afraid of ethics? James O'Toole, author of Vanguard Management, champions values a...  Read story

Office Chairs for Every Budget

Reviews of Herman Miller, Office Star, Global, and Harter  Read story

Green is the New Black

Tax breaks, lower electric bills, impressed customers -- companies are finding plenty of benefits in greening up their buildings. And it's not that hard.  Read story

Hot Seats;

THIS CAN'T BE THE PLACE. THAT was my first thought. We'd already driven 30-odd miles west from Grand Rapids -- down bumpy back roads, past cornfiel...  Read story

Best of the Web: Casing Cybermarts for Office Furniture

Several Web purveyors specialize in such goods as office desks and computer tables. Fourteen CEOs rate the online dealers.  Read story

All Over the Road

When a midwest furniture manufacturer decided to spin its trucking unit off, they remember the problems with start-ups.  Read story

75 Reasons to Be Glad You're an American Entrepreneur Right Now

Here's our tally of the diverse ways the culture, the economy, and entrepreneurship's own history are combining to make this a great time--the best time, in ...  Read story

The Eight Books to Read Before You Start Your Business

A look at eight books that won't give cut-and-dry answers about how to start a business, but will pose questions that aspiring entrepreneurs should ask thems...  Read story

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Office

Companies that have gone electronic discover a host of environmental problems. You may be sitting on one, reading under another, and have your feet up on a t...  Read story

Books That Transform Companies

Profile of a company that promotes teamwork and open communications by sharing books.  Read story

How We Did It: Crane & Co.

200 years of happy customers, from Paul Revere to the Saudi government.  Read story

Stepping Aside

Sometimes the best management decision you can make is to bring in a new manager.  Read story

Inside-Out Marketing

Mogens Smed, CEO of Smed International Inc., presents his company's chaotic, overcrowded headquarters to customers as a working showroom of the office furnit...  Read story

The Remote Control CEO

Stephen Mcdonnell insists that he stays home four days a week because it's good management--not because it's fun. The performance of his company, Applegate F...  Read story

Built for Speed

Roger Abramson, CEO of office-furniture distributor the Atlantic Group, uses speed as a competitive advantage by combining lightening-fast operations with qu...  Read story

The Open-Book Revolution

A special report adapted from Case's book, 'Open-Book Management,' featuring many facets of this technique.  Read story

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