Management

The Healthy Workplace Awards will recognize and celebrate Greenville’s healthiest organizations, but there are other benefits that can be derived from applying for the award, even when your company may not meet the requirements to earn an award.

Two entrepreneurs, newly arrived in Greenville with neighboring businesses, wondered how they could better connect with other women in a similar situation. The two women decided to form a local Cake & Whiskey group for professional women, which met for the first time last week.

McNair Law Firm recently closed its Anderson office to consolidate and strengthen its services in the Upstate.

In the quick sound-bite, us-versus-them world in which we now live, a widely held belief has arisen: Protecting the environment is bad for the economy. But that’s a myth. We can have it both ways – environmental protection and economic prosperity.

Spartanburg Herald-Journal publisher Kevin Drake was recently named publisher of Lakeland, Fla.-based Ledger Media Group. The Halifax Media Group owns both papers.

Laurens Electric Cooperative (LEC) is celebrating its 75th with its 75 Acts of Kindness initiative. The company will award up to $500 for specific individuals or families in need to 75 different recipients throughout the year, totaling nearly $40,000.

Online social networking, microblogging and information-sharing services such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are powerful resources for learning about and communicating with stakeholders.

Upstate entrepreneur Jim Sobeck has followed a winding path to author of “The Real Business 101: Lessons From the Trenches.”

A new survey from staffing company OfficeTeam found that nearly half of workers have 30 minutes or less for their lunch breaks, and suggests that many employees aren’t putting that brief time to its best use.

I don’t know about you, but I seem unable to be in a room filled with entrepreneurs and innovators and not look for common characteristics and qualities. I find myself wondering how these traits make a difference in their perspectives when identifying a disruptive solution to a problem, or even the next “great” idea.