Optimize the Planet!
When CultureIQ reached out to UpBuild to start a conversation about a potential SEO partnership, I was incredibly excited. CultureIQ, as you might have guessed, is a company focused on measuring and improving company culture. It was a match made in heaven because…
I am all about company culture.
In fact, [Read more…] about Now on CultureIQ: My guest post on building a culture-first company
Hiring is the most critical component of running an agency like UpBuild. I’m thankful every day that most of my hires were folks I’d worked with before in some capacity. For everyone else on the team, we’d known each other for at least the better part of a year before I brought them on. The pieces so far have fallen into place quite nicely and I consider myself pretty dang lucky.
This post isn’t a “how to hire at a marketing agency” post; it’s an opportunity for me to think through my recent decision to not talk to any candidates for our open positions. [Read more…] about Let’s Chat, But Not Really
What is company culture? It surprised me that I couldn’t just pull a decent answer out of my back pocket for this. For the past few years, I’ve thought of myself as an advocate of company culture, yet it wasn’t until I set out to write a blog post about SwellPath’s culture that I realized how difficult it would be to pin down what that actually meant.
Sure, I could turn to Google and figure out what “organizational culture” meant in less than .00062 seconds, but instead I waited until I was a mile up in the air to try to figure it out on my own. Something incredibly counter-instinctual for a search geek like me.
What is company culture? To me, culture is the way a startup, a company, an organization behaves. I’m not sure I like that definition…let me clarify.
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