Author: Shay Hughes
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Positive Affirmations: A Simple and Powerful Tool to Foster a Positive Mindset
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One of the cornerstones of our culture is nurturing our team at our quarterly all-team meetings, where we talk about positive thinking, personal growth and the pursuit of being our best selves—both as a team and as individuals. There are many practices that have come out of these meetings, from our core values to our…
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A few weeks ago Hughes Marino was honored to host our fantastic business coach and one of our favorite people, Mike Robbins, in our Orange County office for a special client appreciation event. Mike has been working with us for years in helping us nurture the amazing company culture weÔÇÖre fortunate to experience at Hughes Marino. On occasion weÔÇÖve opened…
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People are always asking us what makes Hughes Marino so special. It all comes back to our amazing team of people and the core values they embody. In creating this video, I wanted to tell the story of the ten core values that define us, and how they came to be.
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I am honored and downright floored to announce that Hughes Marino made Entrepreneur’s inaugural Top Company Cultures List – #2 in the nation for small companies! Our close-knit, family-like culture is central to our success as a company, and to have it be recognized by a national publication is an honor for all of us here at Hughes Marino.
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Last month Hughes Marino had the extraordinary opportunity to spend an afternoon with one of the NBA’s all-time greatest athletes, Bill Walton, who spoke on three topics that are incredibly near to our hearts: leadership, authenticity and culture.
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It was with great joy that we learned recently that Hughes Marino had yet again been named a top ten Best Place to Work – in two different locations! We were honored to clinch the #7 spot on San Diego Business Journal’s list (the fourth year we’ve placed in the small companies category), along with the #3 spot from the…
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At Hughes Marino our team meetings are always pretty special, but today’s was truly memorable. We held our first ever Core Values contest, where we challenged our team members to come up with creative interpretations of our ten core values. The grand prize for the most creative presentation was $1,000, and boy did we have some amazing contenders! We saw…
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As COO of a company that spends a great deal of time talking about, investing in and promoting our tight-knit culture, one of my biggest fears is to have people on our team that aren’t happy. It’s like being a hostess of a party and wanting to make sure that the guests have a great time. Except in this case…
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This week, as we celebrate our company’s 4th anniversary, the Hughes Marino team is reflecting on all that we have accomplished since starting out on this journey together in 2011. It’s been an exciting ride, as we’ve grown from 18 people to 40, opened six offices in five cities, and literally changed the game for our industry.
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What a year 2014 has been at Hughes Marino, and it’s only half over. In the last six months we’ve celebrated the opening of our gorgeous new Orange County office, welcomed 11 new team members to the HM family, completed some amazing projects for our clients, and had a lot of fun doing it. To top it all off, we’ve…
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Adapting space design to a user’s particular culture is enabling hybrids of traditional office and creative space that meet the needs of each company, Shay Hughes, COO of real estate firm Hughes Marino Inc., tells GlobeSt.com. While creative space is all the rage in the office arena, totally open floor plans don’t work for every company in every industry.
