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

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

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: 3 minutes It’s been years since I conducted an exit interview. Pam and Ben’s internships ended a few weeks ago, and we wanted formal feedback about their experience working at Stories. I heard from one HR exec that exit interviews are the worst time to get real

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 The business world’s reputation is still reeling from the excessive greed that drove the economy into the Great Recession of 2008. Fortunately, though, there’s some hope, and it comes in the form of companies that place their mission above profit. For these companies, it just

Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a guest post by Jamie Nichol of CultureIQ. Any company can email out their core values and post them on their website. That’s the easy part. What is harder, less common, and far more important, is having values that actually mean something to

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Reading Time: 4 minutes At Stories Inc, we talk about company values all the time. We link major company decisions to our values and use them to guide our actions. Everyone on the team is welcome (and in fact encouraged) to take our core values to heart, or to

Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week, I advised on the right way to ask about company culture. It takes the right question and the right answer—one that tells a story about the company that is truly unique to them. So here’s something that happened to us that doesn’t happen

Reading Time: 3 minutes With increases in internet speeds and accessibility to high quality video equipment over the last several years, video has become a popular medium for online storytelling, especially in recruitment marketing. At Stories Inc., we’re big fans of video and we do a great job with

Reading Time: 4 minutes Two years ago, Pam, a then-communications intern at Stories, blogged about what it’s like to work here. I figured two years later, it might help some potential Stories Inc-ers if I shared my story. In a way, a conference I attended last week inspired this