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St. Jude Children’s: Investing in People
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital made Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work List in 2018, 2019, and 2020, and Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work for the past 9 consecutive years.
Company Culture During COVID-19: Technology’s Role in Communication & Connection
In this post, we will cover a few ways you can use technology to strengthen your company culture and establish more efficient and meaningful communication habits across your team. Your goal should be to keep people connected and creative. This means the technology tools you choose should be based on how and why you communicate the way you do, as well as offer opportunities to improve your team’s ability to collaborate productively.
Intuit: A Standout Culture
Businesses and individuals all over the world use QuickBooks, Turbo Tax, and Mint, but they may not know much about Intuit Inc., the company that created these programs. Intuit ranks #4 on Fortune’s World’s Best Workplaces, and was also named one of People’s 50 Companies that Care. Their standout culture is definitely worth a closer look.
Authentic Leadership in Action
“Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our...
COVID-19: Stand By Your Values
At Culture Spark, we work with our clients to make sure their values and identity are well defined, and employees are clear that their leaders mean what they say. In this time of uncertainty with the COVID-19, it is more important than ever that businesses consider their values and stand by them to ensure stability and continuity for their employees and customers.
Boston Consulting Group
3/12/2020 Boston Consulting Group (BCG) ranked number 10 on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2019. They firmly believe this is a reflection of their long-standing...
What’s the difference between teaching, coaching, and good advice?
3/4/2020 Chris Westfall, a fellow Forbes contributor and coach, does a great job of explaining the difference between teaching, coaching, and good advice in the video. The...
Scribe Media: Focus on Values
Scribe Media, a publishing company based in Austin, TX, has the best small company culture according to Entrepreneur’s 2018 Top Company Cultures List. Scribe Media’s mission is to unlock the world’s wisdom by making it easy for people to turn their ideas into books. They achieve this mission by staying focused on their values: results, people, and learning.
Big Hairy Audacious Goals
Setting goals can be an arduous and argumentative exercise for any leadership team, yet setting lofty, seemingly unrealistic goals is the first step toward achieving them.