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The Rise of Solopreneur Manufacturing Companies

Small Business Labs

" As the chart below shows (click to enlarge), there were about 350,000 manufacturing firms with no employees other than the owner in 2014, up almost 17% from 2004. Federal Reserve study  2015 Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Non-Employer Firms  also found a high rate of contract worker usage by non-employers.

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Too Busy for Relationships? 5 Ways to Make Time for Connection

Success

70% of parents surveyed said they do not spend enough time with their children. The number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled between 1985 and 2004, according to a 2006 study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Arizona.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

The women surveyed in Guidant’s “ 2023 Small Business Trends ” report were primarily motivated to become entrepreneurs due to being “ready to be their own boss” (28%) and “[dissatisfied] with corporate America” (23%), with only 13% seeking to pursue their passions. I have a lot of fun,” she said. “We

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

Success

In 2004 I was enjoying the highest-paying, most respectable job I had ever worked. Survey your scores. Everything from the title on my business card to the location of the building fed my notion of success. Then a Cadillac Escalade sideswiped me on my way home one evening. The most negative physical response gets a -10.

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Workplace Impact on Political Views

On The Job

Further, the Adecco Workplace Insights survey also found that 61 percent of Millenials surveyed said they talk politics on the job, while 59 percent of black workers reported participating in the political conversation, compared to 37 percent four years ago. Will we vote the way the boss does just to get in good with a manager?

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Foreign Born in the US Workforce

Small Business Labs

  Again, this is little changed from 2008 but up from 49% in 2004.    Having said that, for obvious reasons it is likely any official survey undercounts illegal aliens.  .  Foreign born workers comprise about 15.5% of the US civilian labor force, or about 23.9 million workers. 

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Having the Moxie to Let Go When You Can't Hold On

Virtual Moxie

Suffice it to say that the burn out was so bad that I couldn’t even make myself write anything that I shared outside the AssistU community until I started VMoxie in 2004. I started to feel the pinch at the point that I asked you to take the survey. I hoped that, through your feedback, you would let me off the hook.

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