Risk & Business Magazine Branch Benefits Consultants Magazine Fall 2017 | Page 14

TEAM CULTURE
BY: ARI MEISEL,
SPEAKER, BESTSELLING
AUTHOR & ENTREPRENEUR
Team Culture
There’s An App For That
O
n a Tuesday night in August
of 2015, we sat down to
have dinner at a restaurant
in lower Manhattan. When
we got up from the table
that night, the wheels were already set in
motion for us to create a new company
called Leverage. Today our company,
which provides the world’s most capable
on demand staff, relies on a team of nearly
100 independent contractors in 16 time
zones. The majority of them have never
met but our team culture is so strong that
they band together to do nearly 1000
hours of collective work each week and
describe the experience as the best job
they’ve ever had.
This didn’t happen by accident since we
knew how important sharing the right
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attitudes and behaviors would be the thing
that would lead us to succeed as a team.
The current state of technology and the
economy allow for infinite freedom. Most
freelancers can work just as well from a
hammock on a beach i