Finding good employees is difficult. Keeping them on board is no picnic, either.
But at Hoover Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Cooling in Troy, Michigan, co-owners Marcus Piwonski and Matt Hedges deploy a simple but effective team building strategy: Hire good people and don’t micromanage them.“A lot of times, people have overbearing managers who just won’t get out of the way,” Piwonski says. “We don’t do that here.”Piwonski firmly believes that employees prize empowerment — the ability to work independently and make decisions without interference from managers — more than money, time off and other employee perks.“The CEO of Delta Airlines doesn’t
