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Top Ten Small Business Trends for 2012

Small Business Labs

  2012 will see more small businesses recognize and take advantage of this key competitive advantage.   This growing ability to network, collaborate and socialize is making independent work more attractive, and 2012 will see the trend towards independent work continue to grow.    Technology Trends.

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My 2012 Career and Business Plan

Eat Your Career

So, I’ve done a lot of analysis over the past few weeks (and a little soul searching as well), and I’ve created a plan for 2012 that I feel honors my true gifts and the areas of my work that really feed my soul. So, I’m making a very clear commitment in 2012 to maintain a 70/30 split. But there’s always room for growth.

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The Strong Job Market's Impact on Self-Employment

Small Business Labs

Despite the strong traditional job market, according to the BLS self-employment has increased slightly over the prior year and is also up from 2010.   The share of reluctant independents fell to 24% in 2017, down from 26% in 2016 and 34% in 2012. in the past year. We plan on releasing this study in a few months.

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MBO Partners’ 8th Annual State of Independence Report

Small Business Labs

million, up from 40.9 These are independent workers who would prefer a traditional job (cluster analysis is used to identify this group). Emergent Research (that's us) contributes to this study. million in 2017.    The increase was driven by a the continued growth of Occasional Independent Workers.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

Analysis of the data identified a pattern indicating that the country where employees live, its culture and the resulting expectations have an impact on how highly engaged and satisfied they are with their workplace. These workers might not be actively hurting an organisation, but they are not benefitting it, either.

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8 Reasons Your New Year’s Resolution Didn’t Stick (and What To Do Differently Next Time)

Eat Your Career

Statistics show that, right now, about half of you have already given up on your New Year’s resolution. So, should you happen to realize that your New Year’s resolution has fallen by the wayside (now or in the future), don’t beat yourself up. And by the way, “next time” doesn’t necessarily mean January 1, 2012.

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Microsoft Excel: The Bumblebee's six most useful Excel add-ins

BioTeams

NodeXL , a free third party add-in, turns excel into a powerful Social Network Analysis (SNA) tool which allows you to do a comprehensive analysis of social network data in the form of network maps. NodeXL: How do I analyse network data quickly and visually? Website: [link]. But what is the best combination?