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7 Ways To Elevate Your Team Engagement and Happiness

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my own long experience in business, team satisfaction, engagement, and productivity continues to be a challenge. Playing to your strengths improves your overall engagement and productivity, as well as satisfaction and happiness. Getting peers to help others also is a great source of satisfaction and engagement.

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7 Workplace Culture Dynamics That You Need to Support

Startup Professionals Musings

Studies have shown that work productivity is related to a happier work culture , and customer satisfaction and loyalty are also dependent on the culture. The stigma of a clunky desktop today can easily lower worker engagement and satisfaction. Measure results in terms of customer satisfaction.

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7 Personal Decisions That Delineate Your Best Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, these goals are often mutually exclusive, and focusing on the wrong ones won’t bring you that business success and satisfaction you crave. For example, Richard Branson relishes the satisfaction of initiating innovative startups, and rewarding strong team members with the opportunity to run a joint spinoff.

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8 Strides For Balanced Business Thinking And Delivery

Startup Professionals Musings

Recent studies indicate that less than ten percent of business leaders show this balance today. Personal growth and satisfaction is rarely all about business. Business leadership and success requires whole-brained satisfaction with you and the whole environment. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/12/2021.

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8 Ways To Ensure Customer Interactions Are Memorable

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. Studies show that peer recognition programs are often more effective than bonuses or cash rewards. Today is the time to start down that road.

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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/15/2021.

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7 Office Building Amenities Every Property Owner Should Offer Their Tenants

Southern California Edison Blog

The Q2 2021 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International COVID-19 Commercial Real Estate Impact Stud y found that 64% of office space decision-makers and influencers want to know that building owners are spending more money on amenities supporting tenant company culture, connectivity, productivity, and well-being.