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Cheers to the Season and wishing you and yours the best for 2024 and beyond!

Happy Holidays from Barrel O’Monkeyz!

The amount we spend on giving, whether it’s $5 or $500, doesn’t seem to matter. It’s the act of giving that matters most.

No matter what our business entails, we all need a star performer (or two) on our teams to make success possible and sustainable.

Post-Labor Day weekend seemed like a good time to reflect on work, employee engagement, and how hiring the right people for the job who are happy and passionate about their work affects your brand. The Barrel O’Monkeyz team consists of engaged individuals dedicated to serving the Monkeyz mission and all our clients. Simply put, we’re…

The rites of late winter are upon us. The Superbowl is over. Major League Baseball pitchers and catchers will be reporting to spring training soon. The days are getting longer, and warmer temps are with us more consistently here in southern California. My Dodgers seemed primed for another stand-out year, especially with the recent addition…

Much has been written and said this week about how the New England Patriots are going to the Super Bowl again. Clearly, many fans outside of New England are suffering from “Patriots Fatigue” as it seems the Pats play in the Super Bowl practically every year. Well, they don’t play every year, but after they…

The fall and winter holidays are upon us—and all the shopping, get-togethers with friends and family, and upset to our normal routines can be enough to bump our stress levels into the stratosphere as we make our way through the season. Maintaining year-round healthy habits and avoiding the temptations of overindulgence can give your body…

Do the holidays have your office, your team, or even you distracted? Has your post-Thanksgiving “hangover” morphed into a full-blown malaise as you enter the stretch run for what remains of 2017? It’s easy, quite common, and completely understandable for you and/or your team to fall off the work bandwagon for a time around the…

The “devil is in the details” is a centuries-old saying that refers to how something might seem simple at a first glance but ends up taking more time and effort to complete than first expected. Now, I may be going out on a limb here (what else would you expect from a monkey), but I have to…

This week was time for the annual MLB All Star Game—a time for the American League and National League to showcase their best talent. Watching the game got me to wondering why companies—rank and file businesses—don’t field their own all-star teams. Call me a crazy monkey, but a business team’s contributions to its organization’s bottom…

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! By now you’ve probably got plans for the weekend—maybe the beach, a cook out, a hike in the mountains, or some kind of get-together with family and friends before you top it all off with a fireworks extravaganza. Also by now, you and your employees are probably thinking more about…