Adventures in Entrepreneurship with Jeremy Hanks

Go Team!

Because of my CEO title and relatively young age (I turned 32 last month), I am occasionally tapped by the business community as a business owner / entrepreneur to watch. Case in point… in the Fall 2006 issue of Utah Valley Business Quarterly, I was recognized as one of the Valley’s Top 40 Entrepreneurs Under 40.

On the surface, a mention like that may seem like quite an honor, but if you dig a little deeper, the honor itself pales in comparison to another article from the same issue of the magazine:

The above article, titled Go Team: Cheerlead Your Employees to Corporate Unity), highlights Doba’s efforts at creating a casual, fun, and challenging work environment. In particular, the two-page spread shines a spotlight on Doba Day, a daylong celebration of our company’s birthday, complete with prizes and recognition for every employee who chooses to celebrate the day by dressing up, performing in skits, and authentically showing their appreciation for a workplace culture and environment unlike most others.

Peter Senge, the former Director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once said, “…collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.” I’m honored, not so much by the fact that UVBQ named me to their “40 Under 40″ list, but by the fact that I’ve contributed to a collaborative work environment worthy of recognition in any publication.

Gooooooo Doba!

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