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Learn how a leader’s trustworthiness can propel an organization to excellence in the forthcoming book, The Trustworthy Leader, out later this year from Great Place to Work® Institute co-founder Amy Lyman.

“It just doesn’t pay enough.”

We’ve all said this about a job at one time or another, and it’s never really just about our paycheck. We feel underappreciated and overutilized. We are dissatisfied with many things all at once, but feel like the idea of “pay” captures all of it best when we try to describe what we dislike about our job.

Want to know more about this year's FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For in America and what makes them great? Check out this video! (Courtesy CNBC.)

Great Place to Work^® is excited to announce the launch of its inaugural World’s Best Multinational Workplaces list. The list, which will be revealed on October 27, 2011, will name the top 25 companies to work for in the world.

Today, we are we celebrating the 15^th anniversary of the first publication of any Great Place to Work^® list – in Brazil. In the process, we are also commemorating what has turned out to be the beginning a very significant global movement that is changing the quality of work for millions of employees throughout the world.

Join Great Place to Work^® and Whole Foods on Wednesday, September 21st in Austin, Texas as we explore the practices and programs Whole Foods uses to inspire team members, connecting them with Whole Foods’ mission and giving their jobs, regardless of role, a sense of meaning and purpose greater than themselves.

The other day, on my morning commute, I was contemplating the things that make me happy when it occurred to me that the best things in life are, to put it simply, the things that speak uniquely to me. In our daily lives this can be found in the simplest of gestures like when the barista remembers my name and my favorite coffee drink – I feel special; I’m not just a number.

With costs of medical plans escalating and new regulations looming due to health-care reform, businesses of all sizes are scrambling to manage the impact to their bottom lines, while still trying to provide attractive options. To do this, leaders need to be creative and careful to avoid damaging employee morale and motivation.

Leaders at recognized Best Companies know that direct communication is important in creating a great workplace culture. Hear from Erin Liberman Moran in conversation with Mark Ragan on the state of communications at great workplaces.

Most of us are managers. Perhaps not "on the job" but certainly in our homes, for our families, with the clubs we belong to and in our communities. All of us are subjects of management in our lives too.

Reflect for just a second on what it feels like to be managed. What's the first feeling that comes over you?