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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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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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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?” If money will change hands, a system needs to be defined. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. Be specific.

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Matt Richtel’s New Book Explores the Emotional Balance Between Creativity and Stability

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The question he and his fellow scientists posed in 2010 led to a paper published in 2012. This was their “explicit” or stated belief system. In brief, the idea is that new forms of life and new ideas are almost always destined to fail. Sometimes it takes very smart people to ask smart-dumb questions. This is true of many ideas.

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Presidential Environmental Track Record and Positions 2012

Eco-Office Gals

Obama also formed the Partnership for Sustainable Communities to bring together federal agencies to help communities nationwide improve access to affordable housing and increase low cost transportation options while protecting the environment. Post from: Eco-Office Gals Presidential Environmental Track Record and Positions 2012.

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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

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If I’m working for someone else, I’m trading time for money, but I’m not building any equity,” says Duncan MacPherson, founder and CEO of Pareto Systems, a consulting firm. “As The major investment in most self-owned businesses is the investment of one’s self in the form of time, focus and persistence.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

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They formed the foundation the following year and opened the Els Center of Excellence in 2015 in Jupiter, Florida. Magro was diagnosed with a form of autism—Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified—at 4 years old. Els for Autism is now global with entities in Canada, South Africa and the U.K. “If

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

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Unlike literal deserts, however, they don’t form naturally. He’s more than 20 years sober now, but it took a support system of family and friends to sever the cycle that started so long ago. So in 2012, he sold his house in Frisco (a suburb of Dallas), quit his job of eight years, and moved to one of the poorest areas in Dallas. “It

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