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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

Success

All the hedge fund managers in Greenwich, Connecticut, probably didn’t pay for their Ferraris by being nice to people. Cody Foster is co-founder and owner of the company, which started nearly two decades ago with three employees and which now works with about 500 advisers, according to the company.

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How to Successfully Manage Remote Employees

Office Dynamics

Whether it is a few employees or your entire workforce, it is becoming more and more likely that if you have employees, you are facing the challenge of managing remote workers. In fact, between 2005 and 2012, the number of remote workers in the U.S. Conversely, other companies like Yahoo! grew by almost 80 percent.

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Employee wellbeing advocate shortlisted for Veuve Clicquot Bold Awards

Workplace Insight

Jenny Biggam – Jenny founded the7stars in 2005 and swiftly turned it into the UK’s largest independent media agency, managing over £450m of billings for clients including Gousto, TSB, H&M, Nintendo and Royal Mail.

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Forget all the talk of Blue Monday; work is still (largely) good for us

Workplace Insight

We say ‘officially’, but like the idea of ‘Body Odour’ its common usage hides the fact that it was originally created as part of a PR campaign, in this case one for Sky’s travel channel in 2005. Managers still pay good money to hear how the thinking of 2500 year old Chinese general Sun Tzu can be applied at the likes of Sunshine Desserts.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

Success

It is not illegal for an information technology firm and a janitorial services company to form a partnership, but how many opportunities will that create?” 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.

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CEO Says It's Important to Be Paranoid

On The Job

But if you’re dealing with employee management on a regular basis, you might know the right answer: Kronites are the people who keep Kronos, a worldwide workforce management cloud solution company, running. It has moved from zero cloud customers in 2005 to some 16,000 customers in 2015.

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How Popular is Coworking and Will the Trend Last?

Small Business CEO

Considering that the coworking movement hit the ground running in 2005 you could argue strongly that this way of working has already become an accepted way of working and operating a small business over that 15-year period and the flexible workspace market is now estimated to be worth in excess of $25bn.

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