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Once Upon a Time in Marketing: The Power of Storytelling

Success

Position your employees as the hero of the company story to achieve goals, identify vendors and partners as the hero to bolster synergies, or find ways to insert the customer into the role of hero or heroine. Smith says his heart broke a little to learn the story of a Pizza Hut in Springdale, Arkansas. Case Studies.

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Lawsuits, Lost Expertise And Bad Morale: The Steep Risks Of Ignoring Older Employees

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She says that all companies need to create and enforce hiring and employment policies to reduce ageism. . In May of 2021 that number jumped to 78% — the highest number AARP has ever recorded since they began tracking in 2003. . The average cost of a discrimination claim is $125,000 if the employee and company choose to settle.

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Is College Still Worth It?

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Yet college—in the traditional sense of a bachelor’s degree from a four-year institution of higher learning that a student pursues full time on campus—is still imaginatively linked with the supposed American Dream and assumed to be the one and only road to success. Here’s a head-scratcher. Reinventing apprenticeships.

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Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” | Driving Collaboration: How Coworking Spaces Foster Connections in Work Communities

Allwork

What you’ll learn Discover the fascinating evolution and history of coworking spaces – uncover how this innovative concept has transformed the way professionals work and collaborate. And then there was another initiative in Vienna that started back in 2003. That’s what is called operated offices, serviced office.

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Stacey Abrams’ New Co-Authored Book Details the Struggles Black Entrepreneurs Still Face and Why Business Partnership Differences Can Be Your Superpower

Success

Starting a business wasn’t even on our minds when we first met in the summer of 2003. We got to see each other learn. We learned that difference was our superpower. The critical fumble by Congress and the SBA put many marginalized companies on the brink of closure and some out of business for good. get paid faster.

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A workplace for entrepreneurial mindsets to thrive should be your goal

Workplace Insight

It’s a word that’s often used by big companies on the hunt for innovative thinkers and new ways of doing things. Rather, they can occasionally be found in very large and well-established companies – and everyone can benefit from learning how to become more entrepreneurially-minded. It was January 2004. Give permission to fail.

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Lessons from a Failed Forecast

Small Business Labs

Workforce Week's (tiered subscription) Fast Forward: 25 Trends That Will Change the Way You do Business appears to have been written in 2003.    I'm most intrigued with their 2003 jobs forecast for 2010.  workers per unit of output than they did in 2003.    So what can we learn from this?

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