Are NERF wars in the office still cool? I guess really we could ask if they ever truly were. I have noticed a resurgence in our office in the recent weeks, and am reminded of the business value behind them. Yup, I said business value behind NERF wars. There certainly is no value in the act of [...]
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April Fools’ Day is Our Foolish Holiday!
April 2, 2012
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April Fools’ Day is always a bit of a celebration around here. What company could enjoy the day more than us? We will have some fun in the office, but the most outward sign of our celebration is our April Fools’ Day joke posted on our site. This year, our joke was that our company [...]
Read more Fast Company Gives The Fool Media Love, Too!
March 12, 2012
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Lydia Dishman from Fast Company asked some Fools about our Fool’s Errand and our vacation policy. Take a look down the page to read what they said about it all: Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity By tossing the two-week standard in favor of an honor system with unlimited time off, some companies are [...]
Read more More Washington Post Love – Fools Visit Honest Tea
March 8, 2012
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Olga Khazan from The Washington Post writes an article about a Foolish visit to Honest Tea: To learn new business ideas, Motley Fool tours Honest Tea, Dogfish Head and others Seth Goldman is a successful business owner, having grown beverage company Honest Tea from a scrappy Bethesda start-up to a flourishing subsidiary of Coca-Cola. But [...]
Read more Washington Post On Fool Health
March 7, 2012
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The Fool got some great love from Vicky Hallett at the Washington Post today: The Motley Fool might be the healthiest workplace in Washington Don’t pity the Motley Fool. And certainly don’t pity Ben Sterling, a 29-year-old who’s been with the financial services company in Alexandria since 2007. When he decided to quit his software-testing job to follow his [...]
Read more Love The Mission, It Is the Most Important Thing
February 14, 2012
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I came in this morning to find love notes on my desk. They were not uncomfortably from co-workers Max and Rebekah who sit next to me. Instead they were from Motley Fool customers. Some random Fools had taken the time to print out lovely feedback we had received and print them on cards. They snuck [...]
Read more Finding Writers from Our Own Community – Brilliant!
January 30, 2012
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Many consumer-facing companies have the advantage of being able to hire from within their customer bases, and The Motley Fool is like them in that way. That is amazing actually. We can find people who are already passionate about what we do – they see the value in educating and helping others invest. Think about [...]
Read more Crazy Interviews
January 16, 2012
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Have you ever had a Dumbledore-esque rapper show up during a job interview – complete with a white wig, Dumbledore hat, glasses, track suit, and a Dumbledore monogrammed gold chain? No? Have you ever been to a job interview on Halloween? You should try it sometime. What about seeing a person in a chicken suit [...]
Read more ROI Development Projects
December 7, 2011
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At The Fool we are big fans of giving out special projects. There are so many benefits including but not limited to enhancing roles, learning what Fools can do, testing new concepts, seeing how people can stretch, collaboration, stretching resources, and more. One key element is that special projects make an impact. When a project has a real, [...]
Read more Wedding Anniversaries Take A Back Seat
December 6, 2011
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An anniversary at work should be a bigger deal than a wedding anniversary. Sure, getting married is a monumental event. But, recently a co-worker and I figured out I had spent more time with him than my wife in the last 13 years at The Fool. So, shouldn’t I celebrate that even more than the time [...]
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- More Washington Post Love – Fools Visit Honest Tea
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