team building | Activities & Techniques

VENTURE BUILDING: Bite Size Experiments

Since 1958, the rate that companies have fallen off the fall S&P 500 list has plummeted, as revealed in “Creative Destruction,” a book by Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan. The lifespan of a company on that list went from 61 years in 1958 to 18 years by 2017. Corporate leadership, they say, needs to […]

Employee Engagement / Team Building

CLICHÉS at Work: Why does there have to be a box?

When Venture Up’s 22-year-old creative director, Mason Lengyel, was in kindergarten, many of his teachers remarked how creative he was, saying, “He thinks outside the box.” This made no sense to Mason. “Why does there have to be a box?” We ran into this tired expression again today, in an article listing “40 most annoying […]