Hiring ducks and eagles helps build a social business
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Hiring ducks and eagles helps build a social business

 . I posted in September, 2012 about Building a better business: Hiring ducks and eagles for the right jobs. In that post, I explored the personal experience and positive results of team hiring practices that focused on finding the right person for the right job. The net conclusion of that post being: “Hire to your needs,…

Two tenets for a successful social business program

Two tenets for a successful social business program

Two tenets for a successful social business program Ownership, and focus of vision. Those are the two recurring themes I’ve seen these past few years which are necessary to run a successful social business program; both of these will be your guiding light moving forward with any social business strategies or activities. First up is…

A business ethos that transcends industry
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A business ethos that transcends industry

A business ethos that transcends industry I was recently listening to a podcast via Bet On You in which my friend Ted Pappas was interviewed about  Big Bottom Whiskey and what inspired him to start the business. In this 45 minute conversation (it’s an interview but has a deep conversational tone that Ted cultivates well), he…