What Does It Take To Make A Company Great?

I heard a commercial the other day asking “What Does It Take To Make a Company Great?” It made me stop to think. Some qualities that make a company great might depend on the type of company, but other things would be universal to all companies. I believe the following ingredients are required to make a company great:

-Superior customer service.

-Employees who are dedicated to improving their company, not just doing a ‘job’.

-Management that is open to new ideas and encourages employee input.

-Employees who are willing to go out of their way to assist a customer.

-A workforce that embraces, encourages, and epitomizes teamwork.

-Employees who seek out opportunities to learn and improve their craft.

-Employees with a positive, ‘can do’ attitude, who rather spend time solving challenges than grousing about problems.

What are your ideas on ‘what it takes to make a company great?’ Share them with us here.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.