Good Company Blog

The past few years have seen article after article about the economy and the fragile state of employment. Recently however, a study by Randstad, a staffing and HR services company, revealed some data that represents a move in a positive [...]

Did you check your email this weekend? Probably. But how many times? Was it a quick review of your inbox on Sunday evening to be ready for Monday? Or did you obsessively check for incoming mail every time you picked [...]

What if you measured the happiness of your internal brand? Now that economists and psychologists have been using metrics to compare average happiness between countries, it would follow that we could use those same metrics to measure the happiness inside companies. [...]

Employee confidence can be a tricky thing. Especially when corporate winds start to shift and workers begin to fear that the concrete positions they hold are slowly turning into quicksand. A dedicated and longstanding employee can go from feeling secure [...]

Are you a quick decision maker or does it take you some time to decide? Our individual personalities give each of us a tendency towards one style of decision making or the other. Whichever type you are, you can benefit [...]

Summertime is quickly approaching and that means one thing for businesses: the office is looking less and less appealing. Let’s be honest, who among us would rather be spending time at their desk than enjoying a beautiful day at the [...]

Spring is here and I have my usual feelings of excitement over planting flowers and making improvements to our yard. I often wonder where this passion has come from and then I think of my dad who has been gone [...]

What’s the biggest mistake you could possibly make in managing change at your company?  The absolute worst mistake you could make would be to tell the employees something that would make them feel better, but might not be true. For [...]

Despite all the technology available today, I still go back again and again to the low-tech solution of index cards. Index cards are an incredible brainstorming tool, whether you’re working alone or with a group. They not only allow you [...]

Summer is almost here! What are you going to do with your kids? Atlanta is full of great places to take the kids, but after you go to the zoo, Imagine It, the aquarium, the World of Coke and the [...]