America's Happiest Employees

"Hire someone to do a job and they will work for your money, find someone that believes what you believe and they will give you their blood, sweat and tears."

-Simon Sintek

As we discover and rediscover the keys to a great business we keep coming back to the Right People, Doing the Right Things, Right.

I saw this article that studied companies across the US -Career Bliss rated the top 50 Happiest companies.  

It's a quick read, but contains some shared characteristics that seem to work.  First we need to define and write down the core purpose of our business. Only then can we hire people who believe what we believe. Then we need to create and maintain an environment that reinforces our values and core purpose. 

Dan Pink's findings are pretty much in line with this company's findings.

Employees need to feel they have a mastery of their job, autonomy to do it "their way" (to an extent) and --- this is vital---share the company's core purpose, WHY, or as they say in this article "meaning".

This core purpose or "why" that Simon is referring to in the quote above sounds warm and fuzzy to many small business owners, but it is comes up time and again when we talk about More Time, More Money and a Better Team.

All the best, 

Rick Wallace