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How Company Passion Projects Can Add to the Bottom Line

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In the early 2000s, Google encouraged an 80/20 policy, which gave employees the bandwidth to ideate, develop and innovate projects during 20% of their work schedule. Our path to long-term success is really in creating shared value by generating simultaneous benefits for our business, society and the environment.”

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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

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There are things he would do differently, he says, but his core values influenced the company’s culture then and now, and it’s fair to say Excel was built with the kind of integrity that sometimes eludes bigger companies (even if their ethics policies say otherwise). “In This article was published in April 2014 and has been updated.

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Apprenticeships Are Making a Comeback—Here’s Why

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According to November 2023 data from ApprenticeshipUSA , apprenticeships have seen a 103% growth from 2014. He also says apprenticeships have “revolutionized my firm’s operations by creating a collaborative environment and promoting continuous learning.” And it’s not just a post-pandemic or recent trend.

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Discover the Formula for Happy Employees

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Regardless of the type of business, the process to creating a happy work environment starts with some fundamentals: Make wise choices in hiring. Nelson cites another example of how policy focused on keeping employees happy can work in a small-business environment. This article was published in July 2014 and has been updated.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Women of color-owned firms saw a growth of 43% between 2014 and 2019, while firms owned by African American women saw both the highest growth rate (50%) and the highest number of “net new women-owned businesses” (42%). million workers and generating revenue of $1.9

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Apprenticeships Are Making a Comeback—Here’s Why

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According to November 2023 data from ApprenticeshipUSA , apprenticeships have seen a 103% growth from 2014. He also says apprenticeships have “revolutionized my firm’s operations by creating a collaborative environment and promoting continuous learning.” And it’s not just a post-pandemic or recent trend.

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Job Growth Slowed in 2017; Implications for the Economy in 2018

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  The peak recent year for job creation was 2014, when an average of 250,000 jobs were created each month. Having said that, we have a very unpredictable political environment. .  U.S. job growth slowed in 2017 to an average of 171,000 jobs created per month, down from an average of 186,000 jobs created each month in 2016.

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