How community service helps build a great company

greenbiz.com 15 Mar '13, 4pm

How community service helps build a great company

It’s Tuesday afternoon of the Interface Americas annual sales meeting, the global CEO is packing boxes at a food bank, the Americas CEO is calling bingo at the senior center and the CIO is building a garden box. What could this possibly have to do with running a sustainable carpet company? We’d like to make the case that it’s one of the most important things we do to keep sustainability alive and well at Interface. At Interface, we talk about sustainability all the time and people all over our organization have some direct connection to this mission, whether through manufacturing, marketing, supply chain or sales. But even if they have some idea of sustainability and how it relates to them and their everyday work, do they really feel sustainability? “Feel” is the key word, because motivation, engagement and finding your work meaningful do not come from intellectual underst...

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