Kim Houlne is student of different psychological management styles, having experienced good and bad. As an employee at several companies and later a consultant, she’s run the gamut, from fiercely competitive workplaces to detached management to leaders who do right by people—her preferred style. From the start, Houlne sought to establish “a high degree of […]
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In business, some things change. Like goals and initiatives. And other things don’t. Like the reason why you started your company in the first place. A case in point: In preparing for a recent talk, I found a forgotten piece of paper in my office. Dated 1998, it lists the corporate mission statement, a few […]
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Plano, Texas – Building a business is a lot like getting ketchup out of a bottle. To succeed, you got to coax it, shake it, and even, “windmill” it. But once flowing, there’s no stopping it. Kim Houlne, president and chief executive of Working Solutions, uses that analogy to describe how it felt in 1996 starting her company, […]
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Contact Center Solutions Leader Featured KERA’s CEO series features Working Solutions chief executive Kim Houlne this Friday. She will talk about the company’s leadership in remote workforces and virtual contact centers, an idea Houlne turned into an industry. Her interview occurs the same week that Working Solutions celebrates 20 years of leadership in providing on-demand workforce […]
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It’s not often you can hold a life’s worth of work in your hands. Working Solutions president Kim Houlne recently did, winning the 2015 Stevie® Awards for Women in Business for Lifetime Achievement. “From our start in a one-person office in Omaha, Nebraska, to being recognized worldwide in New York City celebrates Working Solutions employees […]
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A Day of Insight and Inspiration at Executive Women’s Day At the AT&T Byron Nelson Golf Tournament, you’ll find pros on the greens and in the green. On the course, top PGA Tour golfers will compete. Off it, senior executives will share their business insights. Sponsored by Astellas, the Executive Women’s Day will feature Molly […]
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What Our Clients Teach Us School is always in session when it to comes to serving clients and their customers well. And lessons learned should be lessons applied to run the business better, believes Working Solutions president Kim Houlne. A case in point: What partnership truly means. As much as the word “partner” is tossed […]
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Before the web became the business wunderkind it is today, Kim Houlne capitalized on its potential in 1996. Back then, she developed a simple website to recruit independent professionals to do virtual services for companies. Her pioneering work set the stage for what became a multimillion-dollar business, Working Solutions, and a multibillion-dollar homeshoring industry in […]