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Look for Long-Term Triumphs

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When Robert Glazer founded the global affiliate and partner marketing agency Acceleration Partners , his timing wasn’t great. Glazer also ran Bobby’s Best, a source for product research and buying tips, which he began as his first solo venture in 2005. This article was published in April 2014 and has been updated.

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Poor air quality affects chess players, and it might be affecting you too

Workplace Insight

Exposure to such concentrations is common in many cities around the world and is classified as moderate to unhealthy by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Analysis of daily air pollution data in China revealed a negative relationship between air quality and stock returns from 2005 to 2014. Read the original article.

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The GAO Finds Twice as Many Self-Employed as the BLS

Small Business Labs

workforce is contingent, up from 30% in 2005.  The GAO includes the following in their definition: Agency temps: (1.3%). It also helps answer the question asked in the HBR article Where are all the Self-Employed Workers? Government Accountability Office (GAO), 40% of the U.S. Contract company workers (3.0%).

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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When I started as a government contract consultant in 2005, I would accept all kinds of consulting: sales and marketing, certification, business development and contracts. This article was published in October 2012 and has been updated. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships.

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The Common Mistakes Futurists Make

Small Business Labs

The article makes forecasting the future sound easy. This term was coined in the late 1990's and in the 2002-2005 time frame it was a very hot trend. But changing the way houses are built requires an enormous amount of change by a whole lot of people - from builders to suppliers to government agencies to house buyers.

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More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Street Food Gets Real | Main | Please Take "The Organizational Use of Video Storytelling" Survey » June 23, 2010 More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food Interesting article in the Washington Post on mobile slaughterhouses. 

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

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Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « CEOs Believe Technology is Rising in Importance | Main | Coworking Labs - Our New Research Blog for our Coworking Project » June 03, 2010 The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce One of the most important trends of the last few decades is the growing use of contingent workers. 

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