SHOULD STARBUCKS BRING ITS HEART TO WORK?
Let’s assume for a minute that the folks running Starbucks are real people who are provoked enough by a social issue to use their large stage to talk about it. Can a company ever do so in a way that is considered credible and appropriate by its customers? This is a...
Back on the Smack Tour – Stan Slap talks Music
I’m so sick of musicians and their wretched excesses. Wretched healthy excesses, I mean. The more any great artist improves their personal condition, the more their professional work tumbles in bland decline. It never fails: They get their crap together and their...
VIDEO: Robert Scoble Interviews Stan Slap
Stan visits the Rackspace Studios in San Francisco to talk with Robert Scoble about revolutionizing company cultures in the tech world. Slap is renowned for achieving maximum commitment in manager, employee and customer cultures—-the three...
#NMX Trends #2 on Twitter During Stan Slap Opening Keynote
Stan conducted the opening keynote for NMX in Las Vegas. During his keynote he trended #NMX to #2 on all of Twitter. NMX is the largest conference in the world geared specifically to bloggers, podcasters, web TV content creators, social...
Bury My Heart at Conference Room B – The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Commited Managers
This is not a management book. This is a book for managers. Ever have the feeling that no matter how rewarding your job is that there's an entirely different level of success and fulfillment available to you? Lingering in the mist, just out of reach… There is, and...
VIDEO: How to Change Company Culture and Innovate by Steve Faktor & Stan Slap
On Steve Faktor's latest podcast (subscribe here), guest Stan Slap confirmed his findings. (slap is a corporate culture guru and fellow speaker at the BusinessNext conference.) According to slap, “Most companies misperceive...
VIDEO: Employee Values VS Manager Values
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined. It’s the kind of commitment that solves unsolvable problems, creates energy when all energy has been...
The Phobia of Emotional Commitment by Stan Slap
You may want to give emotional commitment to your company; if you can give it, that means it’s safe to give it and you want to be safe in a world you’re devoting so much of your life to. But as a manager you have a lot of indications that giving it isn’t such a...
slap Offices CLOSED – Happy Birthday Charlie Parker
The slap offices are closed on Thursday, August 30th for our annual celebration of Charlie Parker’s birthday. We love Charlie “Yardbird” Parker’s intuitive genius, deconstruction and reconstruction of the established mathematics of his field and unrelenting passionate...
Tell Us Your Story and Get Published – ALL Stories Win 2 Signed Books by Stan Slap
To enter this contest, write a response of at least 200 words to one or more of Stan Slap’s five questions. Your entry must contain truthful accounts of your employee experiences – only legitimate stories will be considered. The use of real names and companies is...
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