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Non-Mortgage Debt and Working in Retirement

Small Business Labs

Manufacturing » July 01, 2010 Non-Mortgage Debt and Working in Retirement The US News article The Number One Obstacle to Retirement points out that non-mortgage debt is a significant problem for many Americans.    According to the article, debt payments are interfering with retirement savings for 63% of Americans.

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The constant craving to put numbers on working relationships

Workplace Insight

The cocktail effect This form of misanthropy eroded over time. It might be more useful in these terms and in the modern era to distinguish between tribes and networks, as the writer Harold Jarche argued in a 2011 piece. One idea presented in the book that does seem to hold up well is his idea of the coefficient of inefficiency.

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More on Social Shopping - Groupon

Small Business Labs

  Social shopping is a form of social networking where consumers and/or retailers aggregate and share information about products, prices and deals.   It is an understatement to say paying only for performance is an attractive form of marketing.  This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

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The Atlantic Monthly on The End of Men

Small Business Labs

  The Atlantic article describes this as: "In feminist circles, these social, political, and economic changes are always cast as a slow, arduous form of catch-up in a continuing struggle for female equality." " The recent Newsweek article - Are we There Yet? covers some of the remaining hurdles for women. 

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More Canadians Becoming Freelancers

Small Business Labs

  The shift towards freelancers, part-timers and other forms of contingent work are powerful and global. But despite a stronger economy, Canada is being hit by the same broader trends that are leading to an increase in contingent workers in the U.S.  This prevents automated programs from posting comments. View an alternate.

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Corporate Speed Dating Opportunity with Intuit

Small Business Labs

  Click here to go to the application form. .  Intuit tells me they are in ongoing discussions with over a dozen of the 42 companies that attended and have active, joint pilot projects in place with 4.    To be invited a company needs to submit an application and be selected to attend.  View an alternate.

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Top Ten Small Business Trends for 2012

Small Business Labs

  Being Human:  A trend that has rippled through our research the past couple of years - and especially in 2011 - is the growing dissatisfaction with our de-humanized world.    Smartphones, the Cloud and mobile computing have been on our top 10 lists in one form or another for years. 

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