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The Difference a Great Culture Made in My Job Satisfaction (And Why That Matters During a War For Talent)

Like so many workers leaving their positions during The Great Resignation, I wanted it all. Higher pay, remote work, and a flexible schedule were options my former position in a non-profit couldn't offer, so I accepted a new job I knew had these benefits. But here's the plot twist: After six months in my new role, I'm on the move again. As it turns out, I value a company's culture just as much as I value flexibility. The non-profits I left (after five years) offered an incredible culture that my new job lacked.
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5 Step Guide For Managing Cash Flow

Cash is the lifeblood of any business. Without cash, an organization can't afford to keep its day-to-day operations running. Cash is important for two reasons; it offers flexibility to make investments for the future, and it offers security to be able to weather storms.
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How to Forecast Cash Flow With The Help of Your Employees

Forecasting cash flow is the key to the survival of many organizations, yet it’s a non-existent process in others. Often, organizations with abundant cash see little value in taking the time to put a system in place to do this. Other organizations that operate with little or no cash see forecasting cash flow as a critical element in running their business in such a manner as to avoid a crisis of liquidity.
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Breaking The Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle By Using Personal Scoreboards

Scoreboards, proper goal tracking, and budgeting are all natural components we expect to see utilized in any business. Afterall, how could we determine the success of a business without benchmarks and goal tracking? So if we determine the success of a business through financial scoreboards and goal tracking, then why don't we scoreboard our personal lives?
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How English Tea Shop Is Creating Shared Value

Creating a sustainable business is no easy task. Creating a sustainable business that also enriches the lives of all the people involved in that business is an even more challenging task. This is exactly what English Tea Shop sought out to do in 2014. CEO, Suranga Herath, wanted to create shared value for his people and community and he needed a business model to do so.
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5 Takeaways From A Great Game Coach on Employee Ownership And Engagement Strategies

Companies that profit share with employees are becoming more and more popular. We had Great Game™ Certified Coach Anne-Claire Broughton on our podcast to share her expertise on the different forms of employee ownership. She discusses the benefits of employee ownership, initiatives her clients are using to provide financial literacy training to employees, and how to engage employees in a way that makes work fun and builds a better workplace culture in an employee-owned company.
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Evergreen Cooperatives: How They're Creating Wealth and Opportunities For Their Employees

Evergreen Cooperatives is a family of worker-owned cooperatives that includes the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry and Green City Growers. Evergreen Cooperatives focuses on creating economic development within specific neighborhoods in Cleveland, making it their mission to build up the people and communities around them. As Cleveland Foundation’s President/CEO and Evergreen Board Chairman, Ronn Richard, says: “Our goal is equitable wealth creation at scale.”
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What Makes Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" so Great?

Each year, Fortune partners with the Great Place to Work Institute to survey employees at hundreds of corporate America’s top firms to determine which companies will be named as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. The most recent list, released in 2022, included Great Game Hall of Fame winner, Hilcorp Energy.
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The Coaches' Corner: Tips For The Construction Industry When Facing A Volatile Market

In this recording of the coaches' corner, hosted on our online membership platform, 3 of our coaches discuss issues currently facing the construction and remodeling industry. They cover challenges their clients are facing today and how The Great Game of Business can be used to help mitigate some of those issues.
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The Cost of Turnover

Did you know turnover can cost a company $94,000 OR MORE? In an example below, Vice President, Steve Baker, applies our Dollar Exercise to the cost of turnover. Losing 9 people at a salary of $50,000 can cost you almost $100,000 and will take $1.4 million dollars in revenue to cover the cost. OUCH.
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About The Great Game of Business

Our approach to running a company was developed to help close one of the biggest gaps in business: the gap between managers and employees. We call our open-book approach The Great Game of Business. What lies at the heart of The Game is a very simple proposition: The best, most efficient, most profitable way to operate a business is to give everybody in the company a voice in saying how the company is run and a stake in the outcome. Let us teach you how to develop a culture of ownership, where employees think, act and feel like owners.