Blog Sample

"Your Company’s Culture"

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

As an entrepreneur, it is your right and privilege to decide your company culture! Do you provide free food for your team? Do you set goals and rewards for individuals, and offer personal recognition? Maybe you’ll have office lunches more often than board meetings to discuss weekly or monthly agendas. Your business means what you want, how you want it.

Today our office is all going out to celebrate a birthday lunch with our executive admin, Shanna. Shanna and I have been asking Rich questions about different forms of investment and savings accounts- and he said that we’d take some time at lunch to go over it a little more. Our company culture is one of openness, questions and answers, and goals and rewards. Rich and Ron have set it up as a place where we are all meant to contribute in our own area of expertise, but can also learn more about other aspects of what goes on around here, as well. As a result, we can all wear a few more hats, not to mention sound a little more knowledgeable on the phone.

We were huddled around the whiteboard for a couple minutes this morning when Rich burst out of his office exclaiming, “the fun has just begun!” A new venture is gaining momentum, and we spent a few minutes talking about the new task division, focus, and hopes for the next couple of months. He also shared his ultimate “dream” reward, a Lotus. There aren’t many offices where the conversation between the owners and the team is so open and candid, but it’s our culture.

What will yours be?”