Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to the Attract/Retain/Engage podcast! Through our work, we hear tons of great stories and best practices of people-centric companies. We’re using this onboarding podcast to share those stories and best practices with you. 90% of new hires decide whether to stay with a company
Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to the Attract/Retain/Engage podcast! Through our work, we hear tons of great stories and best practices of people-centric companies. We’re using this recruiting podcast to share those stories and best practices with you. Grab your headphones and take a listen to the first episode (10
Reading Time: 2 minutes First Round Review published a great article that examines a common issue these days: the lack of loyalty among engineers to the companies they work for. The article features Tiho Bajic, the CTO of Nitro, who explained that many engineers “are acting like mercenaries. They
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Our purpose — To Help the World Invest – Better — really draws people to The Motley Fool,” said the Fool’s Chief People Officer. “Once they join us, seeing that we truly live our purpose is the biggest reason why they stay with us.” The Chief People
Reading Time: 3 minutes One day, a loan officer at a bank that serves current and former members of the military received a call from a member in the Navy who was about to be deployed overseas the next morning. He was in desperate need of a loan before he
Reading Time: 4 minutes I remember so clearly as a child sitting at the kitchen table while my grandmother talked to my mother, and as she talked she kept folding and refolding a paper napkin over and over again. Afterwards, I would try to fold it as evenly and
Reading Time: 2 minutes When a Twitter staff person posted to an internal forum questioning whether the company was doing enough to prevent harassment in tweets, CEO Dick Costolo responded bluntly with a since-leaked forum post admitting that Twitter’s doing a bad job at it, that he takes full
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Reading Time: 4 minutes “You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day — unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.” -Old Zen adage As we’ve mentioned, our teammate Pam is taking a class called Meditation and Leadership through the McDonough Business School at
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here at the Stories Incorporated office, we love hearing about other companies’ internal websites. They can take the form of wikis, or weekly CEO vlogs, or a professional social networking intranet. We’ve talked before how important internal communication is — it sets the tone for