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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

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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

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Here’s President Barack Obama, surprising our office with a visit on 7/3/14. You know what’s interesting about revolutions? They can be enormous, disruptive events that make waves and change the world — even if it’s just your world. They can be on the edge of

Reading Time: 3 minutes We 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

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Reading Time: 2 minutes One of my takeaways from Conscious Capitalism 2015 was something that Simon Sinek said during his keynote. I’m paraphrasing, but he said something like, “To become a great leader, keep in mind that consistency is way more important than intensity.” In other words, making small

Reading Time: 3 minutes I sat next to a high energy, charismatic leader at lunch at the Conscious Capitalism conference. When she told me she was speaking in a breakout session, I immediately switched the session I was attending to hers. Her name is Jean Pitzo, CEO at ACE