Starbucks' "unstructured" environment emphasizes the company's constant need for "new ideas and employee input." Starbucks actually refers to its employees as "partners" and extends to all of them - even part-time counter help - benefits such as the company's well-known stock options. Some protest that Starbucks' employees take their interest in coffee to an "obsessive level," but they admit that the free java keeps energy high in both the corporate offices and in the stores. Moreover, everyone becomes an expert in "coffee-speak," thanks to a "highly streamli......

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