The Fool Rules Rules: Employee Handbooks as Employer Branding and Recruitment Tools
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That’s great in practice, but how does it work in theory?: A brief overview of management vs. systems approaches
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hi all, Pam here! I’m your friendly neighborhood Stories Incorporated communications intern this summer! I’m in the middle of my master’s degree at Georgetown — the program is called Communication, Culture, and Technology, and I learned a ton my first year that I’d love to
Veterans’ Affairs Chief Resignation: The Necessity of Core Value Buy-In
Reading Time: 3 minutes This past Friday, Veterans’ Affairs Chief Eric Shinseki resigned over the systemic conspiracy to hide excessive wait times for vets seeking medical care. Contrary to appearances of a leadership resignation, the issue in this case was more of an honest leader’s inability to affect change
A Story of Employee Empowerment
Reading Time: 3 minutes When a company has an empowerment culture, it can turn great employees into heroes. Certain brands in the Kimpton family of hotels offer guests the option to request a live goldfish to stay overnight in their guest room. The children in one family of loyal
The Truly Alphabetical Team Page: A Look at Ego in Organizations
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m not suggesting that this makes sense for all companies to do, but it is a rare and refreshing thing to see when a company’s ‘Team’ section on its website is truly alphabetical. By truly alphabetical, I mean that even the leadership team is in
The Impact of Transparency in an Organization
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Sweetgreen Uses Storytelling to Build, Strengthen, and Align Its Community
Reading Time: 3 minutes I attended a talk recently in which one of Sweetgreen’s founders, Jonathan Neman, was interviewed on stage about a variety of topics surrounding his company’s evolution. It is always refreshing to see a business that understands the importance of storytelling. You didn’t have to attend
Brains Love Stories
Reading Time: 2 minutes At Stories Incorporated, we spend a lot of time interviewing storytellers, and—while I think my memory is generally pretty poor—I find myself having an easy time remembering the stories shared with us. We love to turn to an article that explains why the stories we
New Light Technologies
Reading Time: 4 minutes New Light Technologies has an excellent company culture that employees describe as being tight-knit like a family and very supportive of employee growth. However,
Three Ways Honest Tea Used Mission to Scale Its Culture
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Reminding Ourselves That Culture Is More Than Cool Office Perks
Reading Time: 3 minutes At Stories Incorporated, we read tons of articles on company culture, and one of the themes we see in those articles is that ‘culture is much more than ping pong tables and a stocked fridge in the office.’ This idea—with which we agree completely—gets so
Washington DC’s Best Places to Work Have a Culture of Trust
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