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Ipsos Global Trends 2020

Small Business Labs

  It's based on extensive surveys and interviews across 33 countries and updates similar efforts conducted in 2013 and 2016.    This was the lowest percentage agreeing of the 33 countries in the survey. The large, global market research firm Ipsos recently released its Global Trends 2020 study. 

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Invest in Interpersonal Skills Development is Important but Few Plan to Invest in Them

Office Dynamics

Survey: Few CFOs Plan to Invest in Interpersonal Skills Development for Their Teams. June 19, 2013 / PRNewswire / -- Executives say it takes strong soft skills to move up the corporate ladder, but few firms provide training in this area, a new Accountemps survey finds. Their responses: 2013. MENLO PARK, Calif.,

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Giving Credit Where It's Due

Office Dynamics

Survey: Nearly All Executives Say Their Assistant Plays Important Role in Their Success. April 17, 2013 - - For many executives, one key to their success is no secret: It''s their administrative assistant, a new OfficeTeam survey confirms. MENLO PARK, Calif.,

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The Backlash Against Sharing Economy Jobs

Small Business Labs

  In our interviews, surveys and focus groups independent workers almost always describe what we call the yin and yang - or two sides - of independent work (freelancing, self-employment, etc.). Most of the providers we interviewed or surveyed like their sharing economy jobs, but a large minority don't.

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The Yin and Yang of Freelancing

Small Business Labs

New Data Reveals Why Freelance Writers are Smart from the Make a Living Writing blog provides an excellent summary of the information contained in the 2013 MBO Partners State of Independence report. It also has a very active comments section with lots of great quotes from freelance writers discussing their lives as independent workers.

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

Success

In a Harvard Business Review interview , Harvard psychology professor Ellen Langer defines mindfulness as “the process of actively noticing new things. Survey your scores. This article was published in June 2013 and has been updated. She started studying how other people were creating fulfillment in their lives.

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Feeling unappreciated?

Practically Perfect PA

I’d been thinking about running an event way back in 2013 but I was too busy with other things (living in a foreign country, starting a new job and juggling Practically Perfect PA) to really do anything with the ideas I had. but then I put the Practically Perfect PA survey out there. I was trying to ignore them.

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