Archive for the ‘Employees’ Category
A Billboard’s Back-story
Anyone who’s been around me very much knows that as the CEO of Doba, I have a passion for treating our employees right. That passion is nothing I can take credit for. It just happens. It happens because Doba is staffed with talented, creative, and dedicated individuals who inspire passion and drive Doba’s vision.
We have a billboard along the I-15 freeway here in Utah. We use it for recruiting and for branding our company here locally. Currently, our billboard looks like this:
Recently, we named Ben Reece Doba Employee of the year. As a small (or not so small) token of our appreciation for Ben’s outstanding performance throughout 2006, we leased a Ford Mustang for him to drive for
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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
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The Doba Fitness Challenge
Last month, Doba’s Director of Marketing, Clark Winegar, pointed out that at a technology company like ours, it’s relatively easy for employees to let their health and fitness go by the wayside. Typically, Doba employees spend 100 percent of the long workday glued to a chair. Aside from walking to and from meetings or entering and leaving the building, we tend to get very little in the way of daily exercise. And while most of our employees choose to take the stairs within our building, that’s only because our elevator’s way too slow.
Thus, the Doba Fitness Challenge was born.
Being who we are as a company, we knew that if we wanted to be successful at supporting and encouraging
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Friends and Work
Recently, just prior to launching this blog, a bunch of my friends and I went on a weeklong backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon. Included in our group were two people I work with (two people over whom I have the ultimate work-related authority but who I also have great friendships with). When I tell some of my non-work friends that I include employees on my non-work adventures, they often wonder how it is that these outside-of-the-office experiences work, and how we’re able to separate our adventures from work and vice versa.
Fair enough question. After all, if you’ve spent any amount of time in corporate America, you’d have better odds of seeing the CEO of a publicly-held company eating lunch
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Where Do Your Ideas Come From?
Everything begins with an idea. Some people say their best ideas come while driving to work, jogging, or taking a shower. Other people cannot pinpoint one particular set of circumstances verses another for the fostering of some of their greatest ideas (apparently, they just ‘happen’). Assuming you’re an entrepreneur, can you put your finger on the exact moment when you came up with the idea for your current business? If you’re not an entrepreneur, how about the precise instant when you decided where you’d be going on your last vacation? Chances are, regardless of whether you’re an entrepreneur, you haven’t got the foggiest idea of where your ideas actually come from.
Now, thanks to a new book by Fredrik Harden—a Swedish
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Welcome to the Entrepreneurial Whirlwind
Have you ever seen a whirlwind? Do you even know what one is? For the non-meteorologists out there, a whirlwind is a vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth… and If you were anywhere near me today, you’d have sworn that I was moving like the Tasmanian Devil himself (the Looney Tunes version, not the carnivorous marsupial).
My day started at around 1:00 AM when I finally got home from an overnight management retreat/camping trip. After a few hours of sleep, at around 8:00 AM, I arrived at our offices to prepare for the monthly waffle breakfast my fellow co-founders and I prepare for all 100 or so of Doba’s employees (yes,
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Focus on Thy Employees!
One of my favorite blogs is Guy Kawasaki’s Bona tempora volvantur. If you’re an entrepreneur and you’re unfamiliar with Kawasaki’s work, you need to check him out. Guy Kawasaki is one of the managing directors over at Garage Technology Ventures, a columnist for Forbes.com, and the author of eight books including The Art of the Start , Rules for Revolutionaries, and How to Drive Your Competition Crazy.
Last week, in addition to asking his readers to help him achieve Top 10 status on Technorati by providing 5,000 or so additional links to his blog, Kawasaki wrote that most companies
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