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100 Best Companies to Work For 2014: Nonprofits
Nonprofit | 1st Place Verity Credit Union Location: Seattle / Employees: 126 / Top Score: Communication Veritys popularity with its employees is due partly to its excellent health and wellness benefits. In addition to affordable health insurance premiums, every employee, spouse and dependent receives fully funded vision and dental coverage for routine care. The credit…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2014: Companies Headquartered Outside Washington State
Companies Headquartered Outside Washington State | 1st Place (tie) ACME Business Consulting Location: Seattle / Employees: 10 / Top Score: Responsibility & decision making For most of us, the name ACME conjures up images of Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner and an ACME-branded anvil falling from the sky. Thanks to that cartoon series, ACME…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2014: Small Companies
Small Companies | 1st Place (tie) Artitudes Design Location: Issaquah / Employees: 15 / Top Score: Work environment Andrea Heustons office is as radiant as her personality. The fun-loving founder and creative principal of Artitudes Design favors bold colors and bright lights probably because they reflect her sunny, creative nature right back at her. Heustons…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2014: Large Companies
Large Companies | 1st Place Redfin Location: Seattle / Employees: 244 / Top score: Leadership of Executive Its lunchtime on a typical Thursday at Redfins downtown Seattle headquarters, and the entire staff has gathered in a massive dining room overlooking Elliott Bay. On the menu: sushi. Redfins employees eat together here three times each week,…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2014
The beauty of Seattle Business magazines 100 Best Companies to Work For awards program is that it is based on extensive employee surveys. Firms that make the list get there because the people who work at those businesses like their jobs, their bosses and their benefits. The 14 companies profiled on the pages that follow…
The Coworking Explosion
With its budding entrepreneurs and growing startups, Seattle has wholeheartedly embraced the coworking movement. More than 30 coworking sites pepper the region, providing homes to hundreds of small and growing companies that cant afford or simply choose to forgo traditional office space. The idea is simple: Open up office or creative space to people who…
5 Keys to Developing Personal Power
Attorney, Paradigm Counsel By: Lynda Chervil Personal power is a core leadership competency that everyone needs to develop before they can lead others. It has to do with being able to lead yourself. “Personal power is the ability to achieve what you want, according to Frederick Mann, a successful entrepreneur and author of The Economic…
The Power of Employee Ownership
https://seattlebusinessmag.com/sites/default/files/Tim_Jenkins_310_200[…Attorney, Paradigm Counsel Twenty years ago, Point B was just an idea in the minds of three friends looking to create better options for consulting clients and genuine quality of life for consultants. Some said it couldnt be done. Today, Point B is a $120 million management consulting and venture investment firm with practices in…
Lessons From the NFL
https://seattlebusinessmag.com/sites/default/files/Al%20Photo.jpgAttorney, Paradigm Counsel February to May is talent season for NFL teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, the focus turns to replenishing and upgrading the roster, filling gaps and compensating for weaknesses with new and better players who can improve and sharpen a franchises competitive advantage and edge. The process begins in Indianapolis, at…
Will a $15 minimum wage be a boom for business or a bust?
The pizza is made with choice local ingredients and hand-pressed dough. It is baked by workers who receive health insurance and other benefits on top of an hourly wage of $11 to $12 decent by industry standards. Matt Galvin, president of Pagliacci Pizza, says those are the ingredients that go into the award-winning pizzas produced…
Does Messy Mean Creative? Nonsense!
https://seattlebusinessmag.com/sites/default/files/messypic.jpgAttorney, Paradigm Counsel I get it. You’ve probably read that article from Smithsonian magazine last year drawing upon a handful of studies (or at least the one they mention) correlating messy workspaces with more creative people. If you excel in a creative role like an architect, musician, or pretty much any position that includes the…
Creative Spaces for Your Millennial Staff
Attorney, Paradigm Counsel Approximately 81 percent of the Millennials responding to MTV’s “No Collar Workers” study want to choose their own work hours. Another 88 percent said they want to work in a more social environment where their coworkers are their friends. Adapting your office to this generation of workers allows you to create a…
How to Organize Your Small Business Finances in 5 Easy Steps
Attorney, Paradigm Counsel You have started your own business and are excited to see how far it can go. You may still be working a full-time job as you get this business off the ground and may only be able to dedicate yourself to it part-time. Still, it’s yours and you want it to be…