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Fresh Air Improves Productivity and Your Bottom Line

Fresh Air Improves Productivity and Your Bottom Line

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

What your people to be more productive? Here’s a novel idea: open the window. That’s right. Give them some fresh air. According to Joseph G. Allen, assistant professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the...
Will the Predilections and Prejudices of Your Employees Hurt Your Business?

Will the Predilections and Prejudices of Your Employees Hurt Your Business?

BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Company Culture

The Starbucks Experience Starbucks just found out the hard way. Their own people can take unwarranted, fear-based actions that marginalize an entire segment of the population. They found out that those actions can reflect on their company which relies on the entire...
Whatever Business You Think You’re In, You’re in The Personnel Management Business

Whatever Business You Think You’re In, You’re in The Personnel Management Business

“THE MOST IMPORTANT THING”

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

We recently had the pleasure of spending the day with 65 MBA students from Nanyang University in Singapore. 25% of the class were part-time students who were already running their own businesses. They asked most of the questions because they obviously had the most...
5 Ways to Grow and Build Trust

5 Ways to Grow and Build Trust

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/12/2017 From your creditors to your employees, good business relationships are built on trust. Can the people who depend on you, confidently rely on you to treat them fairly? Once you have proven your dependability, they will...
The 4 Core Competencies of the Barefoot Startup

The 4 Core Competencies of the Barefoot Startup

4 STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

If you managed to survive the entrepreneurial process from ideation to monetization and you were asked to boil it all down into core competencies, what would you say? How would you even begin? We faced this exact challenge. Our employees, business associates and...
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