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Leadership and the Toxic Workplace Culture (Part Two)

Who you attract isn’t determined by what you want. It’s determined by who you are. - John Maxwell Part-One Recap: A toxic workplace environment is defined as “a workplace where a negative atmosphere caused by coworkers, supervisors, and/or the company culture, makes it difficult to...

Leadership and the toxic workplace culture - Part One

Who you attract isn’t determined by what you want. It’s determined by who you are. - John Maxwell A quick “toxic workplace culture” Google search netted more than 43 million results. To say that toxic workplace cultures are not prevalent would be grossly inaccurate. What is a toxic workplace...

Castengera Team joins Corcoran HM Properties

Longtime Daniel Island resident and Realtor Sally Castengera, and her grandson, Evan Murray, recently joined Corcoran HM Properties and will be based at the firm’s newest office at 741 Meeting St. in Charleston. They were both formerly with Daniel Island Real Estate (DIRE). Castengera has...

Pushing through your frustrations

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration. - Wayne Dyer I read a story once about a famous composer who had a rebellious son who would stay out late at night and come home after his father and mother had gone to bed. Before going to his room,...

Business Briefs: Indigo Reef Brewing turns 4, Fifth Third Bank announces new hires

Indigo Reef Brewing Company celebrated its fourth anniversary with a four-day weekend of beers and cheers at its taphouse off Clements Ferry Road. The locally-owned brew pub opened its doors in June of 2019 and kicked off its festivities with the release of new beers, anniversary glassware...

Look Who’s Here: 901 Island Park Drive

Originally built in 2002 and including 11,000 square feet of space, 901 Island Park Drive featured the island’s first market, Tecklenburg Market & Café. The first floor location was later split into two sections and became the home of other mini-marts, gas stations and restaurants...

Does your workplace culture need an alignment?

A statement of shared values, no matter how inspiring, does not make a healthy culture. - Tod Bolsinger I read with great interest a study at Team Stage which reported that only 28% of executives understand their company culture. They stated, “While they understand its importance, they fail to...

Business Briefs: Health care, real estate, and bike share moves

STAFFING AND SENIOR CARE AGENCY OPENS ON CLEMENTS FERRY ROAD PRN Staffers Home Healthcare Agency celebrated its local grand opening last week at 2414 Clements Ferry Road with a ribbon cutting. The Delaware-based staffing agency provides non-medical home care to military veterans,...

Lift the lid off your limitations

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. - Les Brown During his first year of graduate study at the University of California, at Berkeley, George B. Dantzig (later known as the father of linear programming) arrived late for a statistics class. He saw two problems on the blackboard....

Fish tales and reclaiming humility in leadership

Once when I was just a young boy, our family was all together visiting my grandparents. One of my favorite places to gather with the rest of my cousins was a big pond around the corner from their house. The lake was far enough away to get out from under foot of the grown-ups but close...