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Ten Keys to Happy Companies

Max Borders' recent article Ten Keys to Happy Companies in The Motley Fool covers the essential ingredients that comprise a satisfying company culture, all of which suspiciously sound a lot like our model here at Great Place to Work^®.

Maximize Your Employees' Creative Potential
Great workplaces, while distinct from one another, have at least one thing in common:  they defy convention.  They challenge, with little apprehension, the norms that many workplaces seem to follow without question.  Thus, it is not uncommon for great workplaces to devise creative solutions to traditional challenges.

Can Organizational Culture Be Changed?
Company culture seems to be the new buzz word, but how many companies will actually see the positive change they are working so hard to create? This experiment in culture grafting may be going on for a while, but there seems to be a consensus that more than half of attempts at changing culture will fail.

Response to recent Harvard Business Review article

Leading your Dream Team to Gold is not an easy task. As the USA Olympic Basketball team experienced in the past, poor coaching and lack of team spirit led to surprising losses. As Jeffrey Cohn counts in the Harvard Business Review article Picking the Man Who'd Lead Basketball's Dream Team to Gold, tables turned thanks to Jerry Colangelo. But this did not happen overnight; Colangelo carefully tended to every facet of team culture.

Are Men Happier than Women in the Workplace?

A digital media company, Captive Network, recently surveyed 673 professionals in the hopes of finding out. The responses, depicted in the following infographic, suggest not only are men happier at work and more satisfied with their work/life balance, but also the reasons as to why.

Five Ways to Better Support Working Mothers
Any workplace can make life a little easier for the moms in the company. Here are five innovative ways the Best Small and Medium Workplaces provide support and flexibility to working moms.

The Future of the Workplace

A recent survey conducted by Cisco Systems found that 40% of respondents would accept a lower-paying job that had more flexibility with regard to device choice, social media access and mobility. The following infographic has real implications regarding media devices, flexible schedules, and the ability to work from home.

Is Money the Only Currency of Value?

Among the 100 Best Companies, 70% of employees believe that they receive a fair share of the profits made in their organizations, and 77% believe that people in their organizations are paid fairly for their work. This data is from anonymous employee surveys administered for the 100 Best Company selection process from 2004-2012.

New Study Reveals Workplace Divide

Deloitte, a 2012 FORTUNE Best Company to Work For®, recently released its results on Culture in the Workplace. Over a thousand U.S. employees and approximately 300 executives were surveyed on a number of questions related to workplace culture.

How self-awareness impacts the workplace
When we are conscious of our individual traits, feelings, and behaviors we are practicing self-awareness.  If we can understand how our personal biases dictate, in large part, how we think and behave, then we position ourselves to better understand our own processes for decision making, and how we relate to others in the workplace.