Why We Should Rethink the Eight-Hour Workday. How to Find Out If a Company is a Cultural Fit for You. Tips For Running A Virtual Startup. Top 32 Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Live By. Advice on Corporate Culture From Netflix's Former Chief Talent Officer. Corporate culture is -- and always has been -- a big deal here at HubSpot.
Since we came up with the first version of our Culture Code many years ago, we've continued to focus on creating a company people love. Our Culture Code was recently updated (our co-founder, Dharmesh Shah, acted as scribe and spent many hours on it). After months of internal review and revision, we published our Culture Code to let people know what makes HubSpot and the people inside it tick. Since publishing the slides a little over a month ago, we've received an overwhelmingly positive response.
The HubSpot Culture Code circulated inside and outside the company, receiving over 500,000 hits on SlideShare alone: Is Your Business Going to the Dogs? Studies show that having dogs in the workplace reduce stress and increase satisfaction. Here are three things that workplaces that allow dogs do well. Janine Popick is the CEO and founder of VerticalResponse , a leading provider of self-service email and event marketing, online surveys, social media, and direct mail solutions. The company was ranked No. 2,802 on the 2012 Inc. 5000. @janinepopick. The Trick to Managing Remote Employees. When it comes to managing remote workers, out of sight shouldn't mean out of mind, new research shows.
A University of Illinois study revealed that those in charge of leading employees who work outside the office — either at home or abroad — need to change their leadership style. Illinois business professor Ravi Gajendran said managers can mitigate the isolation of virtual employees by taking a relationship-based approach to their leadership style. While companies typically use a top-down, "one-to-many" leadership style that treats all employees similarly and often interchangeably, the study shows they might find more success handling remote workers by using a "leader-member-exchange" method. How Focusing On 'Why?' Powers Up Your Business. 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy. Without realising it, many of our thought habits get in the way of our happiness and cause us to get stuck into negative patterns of thinking.
Below we will look at 13 ways we can rewire our thoughts and minds into allowing ourselves to feel the happiness that we deserve, freeing us to live, love and be happy. Piecing together collaboration and cooperation. In an insightful piece, Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary.
In networks, cooperation trumps collaboration. In networks, cooperation trumps collaboration.
Collaboration happens around some kind of plan or structure, while cooperation presumes the freedom of individuals to join and participate. Cooperation is a driver of creativity. Stephen Downes commented here on the differences: collaboration means ‘working together’. 16 Characteristics of a Social Workplace. Original post: 16 Characteristics of The Social Workplace by Shirley Williams (Blogger of Social Media Pearls) One tool or platform does not make an organization social.
It is not just about the tools- especially in isolation of the bigger picture. Liberate Your Company Through Employee Engagement. If there is one topic out there in the field of Social Business that has been bugging me for a long while, as perhaps one of my strongest pet peeves ever, way even before we first started using the concepts of Social Business and Enterprise 2.0, that would be the one on Employee Engagement.
More than anything else, because all along I have always felt that employee engagement is a myth. A huge one, actually! What employees really need at work. By Padmasree Warrior, contributor FORTUNE -- In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow introduced the concept now known as "The Hierarchy of Needs" in which he outlined how people are motivated to fulfill certain basic needs (food, water, safety) before moving on to other, more advanced needs, such as creativity and self-actualization.
If we use that lens to look at our businesses, what are the needs of the modern employee? While companies are expected to fulfill employees basic "needs" to do their job -- competitive pay, a functional workspace -- modern organizations understand they need to do more to foster creativity, drive innovation and improve productivity. Manifesto. Culture Code: Creating A Lovable Company. Ogilvy-graphic-big. The Arbejdsglaede of Employee Engagement. If you have been reading this blog for a little while now, you would probably remember how concepts like Employee Engagement make me cringe a little bit.
Specially, when it’s abused left and right by HR departments and corporations alike, in general, as that magic bullet that will help address and fix the number #1 business problem of today’s corporate world: employee disengagement. Or put together in simpler terms: people no longer owning or caring for their work. Don’t take me wrong, I do believe rather strongly in Employee Engagement. Zappos' Secrets to Building an Empowering Company Culture. Aaron Schildkrout: How To Build A Startup. Alison Levine #DevLearn Keynote Mindmap. 5 Big Discoveries About Personal Effectiveness in 2012. The science of self-improvement never ceases. Every year brings dozens of new quirky findings about how to be more effective, whether in managing our time, being more creative or just getting things done. Here are some of the highlights for me from 2012. We think we know ourselves best, but more and more evidence is surfacing to the contrary. This raises an interesting challenge for employers who solely base their hiring decisions on self-reported questionnaires.
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