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8 Tools To Help Build An Efficient Asynchronous Workflow

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Zoom Zoom helped herald in a new era for remote and hybrid work policies around the globe. Slack launched in 2014 and quickly reached a unicorn-like status, gaining 15,000 users by its second active week and a company valuation of $2.8 The company has capitalized on this success: it’s reported that Zoom generated $4.3

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2014

Small Business Labs

The Convergence of Mobile, Cloud, Data and Analytics:  Individually each of these technology trends has been on our annual top 10 lists in some form for years.    And short-form video applications like Vines and Instagram are making consumers familiar with taking, posting and watching short-form videos. This

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Academic Studies Show Gig Economy Larger Than Government Data Suggests

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Households,  reported that 31% of Americans do some form of gig work and that gig work income was important to many.   But despite a preponderance of studies showing that the gig economy is large and growing, this has not been accepted as true by many in the academic and policy making communities. . Key

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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Appropriately, the phrase “Stay woke” reappeared in 2014 as Black death started to fill our Twitter timelines and Black citizens took to the streets in Ferguson, Missouri. These slights can take the form of offhand comments, jokes, backhanded compliments or insults. It can take the form of microaggressions or just plain aggression.

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Is America "The World's First Poor Rich Country"?

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.  The book got a lot of play in policy circles. Both also stress how various forms of economic uncertainty and instability are impacting individuals, families and society overall.  Both also stress how various forms of economic uncertainty and instability are impacting individuals, families and society overall. 

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Discover the Formula for Happy Employees

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Nelson cites another example of how policy focused on keeping employees happy can work in a small-business environment. You get openly berated in one form or another, or it goes in your personnel file, and all of those days and all of those hours that you really stood up at the plate are meaningless.”. The Most Critical Choice.

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How to Create the “VIP Experience” for Your Clients with a Welcome Packet

Office Organization Success

Enrollment Form/Project Booking Form: depending on your profession you may have an enrollment form if you’re signing up a client to one of your coaching programs, or a project booking form if you’re a VA. Credit Card Authorization Form: you want to get paid, right? c) 2014 Tracey Lawton.