For years now we have heard how great a company Google is and if you ask their employees they will be the first to tell you how great it is to be a part of that team.  With good reason, they have found themselves tops on the list of Glassdoors rankings of “50 Best Places to Work.”  As you look over the list it is full of companies who have found incredible success in their market.  One of the main contributors to this success is the culture that each one of these groups creates for their employees.   There have been many studies and much written about corporate culture but it can simply be defined as the beliefs and Read more…

Who do you call family?  If you are talking to most people it will consist of mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, or some combination of these relatives.  I would say the same thing.  For the most part, our family is due to the relationships with the people of the family we are born into. As I have been studying families and organizations I have come to the realization that family has less to do with who you are born to and more to do with the relationships you have.  I believe that people can become family with someone they have never met as they get to know that person. There are two things that I believe tie us together as a Read more…