As we build the Small Giants Community, one of our greatest pleasures it getting to know the businesses people are running from their perspective. It's about more than just learning what a business’ technical operations are. It’s about learning how their business not only fit into...

Over the past few weeks, our CEO Paul Spiegelman engaged in a conversation with SGC member Jason Todd over the value of membership in the community and Jason’s professional and community oriented goals. Jason gave us permission to use some of his response as an opportunity to begin bringing...

  Featured Member: George Opitz from Resource (Troy, MI) Give us a brief overview of your companyWith over 35 years experience Resource is a national firm that delivers solutions in the areas of Talent Acquisition, Talent Management...

Investing in workplace culture can be a tricky subject. Inevitably, someone will say, "If you spend that much money on workplace culture, doesn't it just take away from your profits? It's just not that important."To which we respond, "Good gosh, you've got it wrong!" (Note:...

The idea that focusing on workplace culture is important to running a successful and sustainable business isn't new. You can find a number of books (SHAMELESS PLUG: Many of them from our collaborators – Check out the book page) that will tell you stories of inspiration and achievement...

Ask the average person about workplace culture and you’ll inevitably get answers about companies that allow you to bring a dog into the office or silly hat days. But we think that might be a too elementary and tactical way of looking at the issue.We prefer to grill leaders under a single,...

Being the contrarian, refuse-to-accept-conventional-wisdom-of-business types we are, we decided to challenge our collaborators to dig into their own experiences and come up with something a new entrepreneur should never do when starting a business. And we learned one thing…The word...

Odds are if you're reading this, you probably have a high level of interest in learning about how to improve your business. After all, this little column is designed to give you an easy path to the lessons our contributors learned as they grew their businesses from start-ups to Small...

If you were to consult Time Magazine's annual take on "the most influential people," you'd deduce that it there was no defining answer on what makes someone influential. From Lady GaGa to the Dalai Llama, the people judged to be "influential" is as broad a range as one could...

So maybe everyone's first business wasn't running a lemonade stand with the singular goal of accumulating enough quarters to acquire the legendary "Bomb Pop" from the ice cream truck blaring a tri-tonal version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." (An epically failed...