Sarah Harris from Studio 10 visits The BRG At The Big Red Group (BRG) we encourage employee engagement in many ways, however one of those ways is through hosting Lunch n Learns. These are lunchtime talks where we invite people that we respect into our workplace,...
Is your workplace thriving? It is no surprise that when your people thrive, so too does your business. The common theme underpinning thriving businesses is the clear alignment between vision, values and purpose. In successful companies, people know exactly what they...
Silicon Valley: Innovation’s Holy Grail We often think of Silicon Valley as the Holy Grail of innovation. I spent last week in California and learned a lot during my visits to Salesforce, Facebook and LinkedIn. Each started as a small business less that two...
Five lessons from my visit to the Facebook Campus It is no coincidence that as you enter 1 Hacker Way — Facebook global headquarters — it feels like Disneyland… literally. In 2009 when Facebook purchased the site in Menlo Park from Sun Microsystems (they reversed the...
Sometimes a little bit of success for a start-up business can be misleading – as a founder you do it all, from customer experience to bookkeeping – there is no one else – and you know you can count on yourself to get things done. But it is not...
We have never lived in a more ‘abundant’ time – despite the fact that there are more than 7 billion people on the planet – we have ‘more’ now than ever before in history. We are at the beginning of incredible social changes such as ‘dematerialization’ and...
When you hear the term ‘performance review,’ what is your immediate reaction: relish or dread? Is it something that needs to be endured or an exciting opportunity to learn, grow and develop? What if there was a way that you could completely flip the performance...
What do the following music albums have in common? Carole King’s ‘Tapestry’, Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold as Love’, Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ and Bob Dylan’s ‘The Freewhelin’? If you’re a music wiz, you might know that these are the critically acclaimed second albums of the...
