187 Nov-Dec 2016

Issue Number
187
Issue Months
November-December
Issue Year
2 016

Issue's Articles

Title Issue Date

Except perhaps for the lucky few of them still enjoying double-digit growth and staff satisfaction with wages, most co-ops are constrained by limited personnel dollars.

187 Nov-Dec 2016 January 3, 2017

Hanover, N.H.—Terry Appleby works in a bright, capacious office on a wooded hillside a few miles southeast of Dartmouth College. One day this past summer, I met him there for lunch. 

187 Nov-Dec 2016 January 3, 2017

 It is always timely to examine handling cooperative conflict and building cooperative resiliency.

187 Nov-Dec 2016 January 3, 2017

One summer afternoon in 2009, Arthur Gerstenberger, former general manager for the Hanover Co-op in Hanover, N.H., made a surprise visit to a celebration honoring the co-op’s employees.

187 Nov-Dec 2016 January 3, 2017

July was the hottest month our planet has experienced since modern recordkeeping began in 1880. By its nature, climate change is a global challenge, and yet we each have a role to play.

187 Nov-Dec 2016 January 3, 2017

Conflict happens. Co-ops have always faced conflict, whether in the boardroom, in member meetings, through social media and email, in the aisles or out in front of the store.

187 Nov-Dec 2016 January 2, 2017

There is no shortage of stressors for people involved in co-ops today.

187 Nov-Dec 2016 January 2, 2017