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The Backlash To The Profits-First, Profits-Only Model Of Silicon Valley Is Growing. Here’s A Midwestern Example.

Mike McFall was wrapping up the first round of edits on his second book when I reached him. The co-CEO of BIGGBY Coffee, a franchise operation with more than 300 locations across the Midwest, McFall published Grind, about how to bootstrap your company to a positive cash flow, in 2019. His second book will be about …more

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Workplace Changes We’re Hoping to See in Our Next Normal

By Marina Khidekel, Head of Content Development at Thrive Global As we start to think about what our offices and businesses will look like once we begin the re-entry to work (our “next normal”), it’s becoming clear that we won’t return to business as usual, not after what we’ve been through and learned as a result of COVID-19. “The …more

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How To Maintain A “People-First” Company Culture — Even During A Crisis

POST WRITTEN BY Jeff Webb COVID-19 is challenging all of us in ways we have never been challenged before. This is also true for companies across America, and across the world, that are confronting difficult decisions, restructuring their workplaces and redefining their employees’ roles. Ultimately, company culture, or “how” a company does what it does, …more

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The Business of Business Is People

“We’re all put on the earth to care for each other,” says Professor Raj Sisodia. And, as the co-founder of Conscious Capitalism, he believes business is a way for us to do just that. Conscious Leadership “It is a critical time in the world for all of us,” said Sisodia, welcoming more than 130 participants to a Babson …more

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