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Workplace and property firms must wake up to the new era of networked businesses

Workplace Insight

A more academic explanation of companies was provided by a little-known UK Nobel prize-winning economist, Ronald Coase (1910-2013). Networks are replacing production processes. Once held together by risk and liability management, what binds firms together now? Business communities will innovate and add value.

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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

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meetings (totaling 18 hours) per week,” numbers which increase as “management level and number of direct reports increases.” Additionally, non-management employees reported that only 11.9 In hard dollars, the price of meetings that aren’t productive is enormous. Ground rules for more productive meetings.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

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Our overall economic outlook for 2013 is for continued moderate growth with U.S. 2013 will see rapid increases in the number of small businesses using powerful yet inexpensive cloud-based data and analytical tools.    We borrowed this trend from the 2013 Future Workforce Trends from our friends at MBO Partners.

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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Arlan Hamilton, founder and managing partner, says, “ We invest in the very best founders who identify as women, people of color or LGBT in the United States. They don’t get the same amount of money that other startups get, so they have to come up with other strategies to be successful.” I personally identify as all three.”

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Discover the Formula for Happy Employees

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There is mounting evidence that keeping employees happy leads to increased productivity and profitability. He wrote 39 books that eventually led to him being known as the “father of modern management.” Most employees feel like they are literally invisible until they mess up, and that’s a horrible feeling. Look people in the eye.

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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

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Perhaps you’re tired of waiting the 20 seconds or so it takes your shower water to heat up. Between his taped-up prototype and the beginning of his current market prevalence, there were 15 years of rejections, lawsuits and near-bankruptcy, alongside thousands of prototype revisions. I’m a designer and engineer and maker of products.”

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Insight confirms partnership with Material Matters for sustainable design event

Workplace Insight

Known as The Works Place , products and ideas will be presented in a range of working settings so that visitors can see how they might be applied in their own offices and other spaces. The space will be designed as a real setting to showcase products in a relatable way for visitors. More information can be found here.