by Chuck Kocher | Jan 17, 2013 | People and Teams
Fortune has released its annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. You can peruse the whole list—and what makes each company a great place to work—here. But here’s a look at the top 10 “best places to work” according to Fortune: 1. Google 2. SAS 3. CHG Healthcare...
by Chuck Kocher | Dec 4, 2012 | Key Ideas to Think On, Leadership, People and Teams, Strategy Creation
There’s a great business story about a CEO giving one of his new employees a tour of the office. As they pass by one cubicle, the new employee can’t help but notice that the employee sitting in the cubicle has her feet up on the desk, her hands behind her head, and is...
by Chuck Kocher | Jul 2, 2012 | People and Teams
Entrepreneurs have a reputation for being intelligent, independent, self-starters. Those are great qualities for success in business, but they are often accompanied by another trait: Isolation. It’s easy for a normally broad-thinking person to develop business myopia....
by Chuck Kocher | Mar 12, 2012 | People and Teams
Few things have a bigger impact on the success of a company than the quality of its employees. There’s really no way around it: if you want to have a great company you have to have great employees. But what makes an employee “great?” Not long ago, Inc.com ran an...
by Chuck Kocher | Feb 14, 2012 | People and Teams
What is the single greatest competitive edge you can give your business? Best-selling business author and speaker Patrick Lencioni maintains that it is not finance, strategy, or technology that gives a business the ultimate competitive edge. He claims that teamwork is...
by Chuck Kocher | Feb 7, 2012 | Business Growth, Coaching and Encouragement, People and Teams, Strategic Thinking, Strategy Creation, Strategy Development
Trying to run a business without a strategy—without a clear idea of who your customers are, without definite goals, and without a specific plan for achieving those goals—is a recipe for failure. But is honing your strategy the most important you can do to assure your...
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