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 minutesOne 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 minutesI 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 minutesWhen 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 minutesHere 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
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Reading Time: 4 minutesYou know how the stereotypical intern experience is characterized by boredom in the form of data entry, coffee runs, and a heavy dose of Reddit, all of which is mostly ignored by management? Well. The stereotypical intern hasn’t interned at Stories Incorporated. Turns out that
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe fly Southwest because of how they treat their employees. This picture is from the Southwest Airlines twitter feed: “Welcoming a new class of Interns to our Family with a #SWAselfie! #LUV.” For an extended version of what we mean, take a look at this