2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney took it on the chin when he dared to state during the last presidential election cycle that corporations are people. While the Enterprise Engagement Alliance is unequivocally non-partisan, since engagement can benefit people of all parties, it is fair to say that great companies are indeed people – perhaps just […]
Engagement isn’t just a buzzword or a nice to have; it’s a formal business practice to achieve key goals that permeates the way organizations lead, coach, measure, communicate, teach, reward, etc. As seen in these photos, The Container Store brings the concept of Enterprise Engagement right into the home by prominently conveying its values on […]
The Work Human movement…B Corporations…the Engagement movement…Conscious Capitalism…Emotional Connectivity. These are phrases used by various organizations to promote a common theme: the importance of people in business. The WorkHuman movement was launched recently by Globoforce, a leading recognition company, which is now holding an annual conference under that theme. B Corporations is a concept developed […]
The Enterprise Engagement Alliance (EEA) has announced the Top 25 Most People-Centric publicly-held companies in the U.S. The selection is based on a detailed analysis of independent research by McBassi & Company, a leading human capital analytics firm, using data provided by independent research firms related to employee, customer and community engagement. The winners are […]
Recently, I commented on the insularity at Google that I suspect lies at the heart of so many product failures. While Google prints money with search, few of its other ventures have fared so well. The danger of arrogance was recently explained by Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix. In a recent interview with the […]