Inc. Magazine and Freedom Inc. on vacation

How to Set a Workplace Vacation Policy by Lauren Folino 1 MARCH  2010 If you are contemplating the terms of a workplace vacation policy, a critical step is to determine whether or not it benefits your business to have one at all. Some workplaces have decided to scrap...

Terri Kelly speaks of Gore’s culture in MIT

Gore ‘s culture by its CEO DECEMBER 8, 2008   W. L. Gore & Associates is famous for its culture but it is a notoriously hard to get in company if you want to observe this culture firsthand (we were lucky to be able to study it from the inside). Here is a...

An entrepreneur appreciating Freedom, Inc.

David finds Freedom, Inc. helpful to build his company the right way, from the start Over the last two weeks I’ve been thinking quite a bit about our values. What do we want CityVoice to stand for? And what do we need to put in place to reinforce those values? Like...

Toyota won’t waste its crisis—unlike the others

Toyota Way and Win: “Good enough never is” + “Respect for people” Here’s what we think about Toyota’s latest crisis: They handled the PR crisis management badly, not being open enough fast enough and not giving a full meaning to their act....

How managing stifles initiative and prevents joy

Psychologists on the impossibility of management—even for NINA puzzles The University of Rochester psychologists Edward Deci, Richard Ryan, and their associates carried, perhaps, the most ambitious contemporary theoretical and empirical research on motivation. They...