An oldie, but a goodie from 2008 – take a look at a video from Nightly Business Report that we thought we’d bring back on why we think it’s important to create less stress in the workplace.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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The Great Foolapalooza Hunt (Part 2)
March 5, 2012
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So the idea was approved, albeit with some concern, naturally. Would people really want to spend two to three hours solving puzzles? When the plan was announced, a common response was, “Do I really have to do this scavenger thing?” (I knew it wasn’t really anything like a scavenger hunt, but there was really no [...]
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The Great Foolapalooza Hunt (Part 1)
February 27, 2012
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My very first task as the newly appointed chief collaboration Fool was to run a big team-building event at our annual company meeting – what we loving call “Foolapalooza”. This came as no surprise to me. In fact, it was my idea. For a long time, I’ve been a fan of real-world treasure hunts. The [...]
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Have Fun – Revel in Your Work…Or Your Hamburgers…
February 20, 2012
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We have six core values at the Fool, and everyone has their favorite. Mine is “Have Fun: Revel in your work.” To that end, I helped orchestrate an afternoon of fun last April with our first-ever hamburger-eating contest. At a lot of workplaces, the challenge when putting on “cultural” activities is trying to generate interest [...]
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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 [...]
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Is the Fool a great place to work? Have our Fools tell you firsthand…
February 13, 2012
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It wouldn’t be the weirdest thing at The Fool to see people throwing Nerf balls or setting their pods up for a miniature golf tournament throughout the office. It wouldn’t be peculiar to see desks being pushed toward the wall in a conference room, only to have a rapid-fire, ping pong ball machine setting on [...]
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Student Investing Seminar March 2
February 7, 2012
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Here at the Fool, we frequently get asked what we look for when we recruit for investing talent. While our analysts come from all types of backgrounds and have all kinds of letters after their names: CFAs, MBAs, PHd’s, school of life. We love the diversity of experience. That said, we did notice one pattern [...]
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Why Wellness? Because We Care…
February 6, 2012
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To help the world invest. Better. The Motley Fool’s purpose, undeniably, places the interest of our members and followers at numero uno but who is going to look out for us Fools in Alexandria, VA? That’s where I come in, the Wellness Fool. Just a little background before I explain what the heck a Wellness [...]
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- More Washington Post Love – Fools Visit Honest Tea
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