Author: Annie Sowell
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Moms at Work: Why my company celebrates Babies on Zoom Calls
Why not have our children join our video conference calls? What’s the big problem with a little chatter, a few smiles, and connecting as humans as we get started? These are the questions that came up and I had no good answer. So being once-upon-a-time a child who was brought to business meetings myself, I…
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Bring Your Kids to Work [Any] Day
We celebrate bringing our kids to work. But what is even better about being a niche-industry hidden champion is when I can bring my kids to work – for life. Not just a day.
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Generational, Healthy, Integrated, Family-Owned Niche Businesses
How Did Byron Integrate Family Into His Business Story? Was It Worth It? Short version: we took our boys to work, went to meetings, conferences, and introduced them to our network. It didn’t start with the European adventure. Below is a photo of my 11 year old son meeting world-renowned speaker and author Verne Harnish…
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Work-Life Balance or Integration | Are You Open to Reinterpretation?
Could we be misconstruing the idea of work-life balance from its original intent? Is it possible that the presence of millennials in the workforce has affected how this phrase is interpreted today? Employers have been putting tremendous effort into determining the best way to appeal to millennial workers, and this phrase often comes up with…
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Handwerk | Tools of the German Trade
This article was first published in the June 2024 issue of Sweeping Magazine; you can view the article here. So I’m in Germany on a family sabbatical studying chimney sweeping in Europe, and I’m walking around what might be described as an Ace Hardware for chimney sweeps. It’s a brick-and-mortar tool and equipment store exclusively…