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How Company Passion Projects Can Add to the Bottom Line

Success

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. It ultimately led to huge wins like Gmail AdSense and Google Maps—technology that has become mainstream all over the world and huge revenue drivers for the tech giant.

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Tips and Resources to Scale Your Small Business

Success

When Logan Shinholser, owner and CEO of the Contractor Growth Network in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from college in 2014, he started providing marketing services for his father’s pond construction, repair and cleaning business in Maryland. “I You may want to think about building your business in stages if you can,” Marshall says.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

When she was a junior in high school, Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health support and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents. Bathurst Walk-in Clinic and Family Practice Atwal is a trailblazer in the health care industry.

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How Silicon Valley is Changing How and What We Eat

Small Business Labs

According to Time's How Silicon Valley is Addressing the World's Food Crisis : the food industry and tech industry have started to intersect and companies like Google and Yahoo have major research projects related to the future of food. ." Food products and technology have become a hot area in Silicon Valley.

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Ways to Improve the Morale at the Office

Office Dynamics

employees were engaged in their jobs in 2014. According to research journal “Obesity,” a treadmill desk can not only improve employees’ health, but boost their productivity in comparison to their sedentary counterparts. According to research from Gallup, only 31.5 percent of U.S. Here’s how to get started.

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Episode 283: Well-Presented with Mike Pacchione

Productivityist

Mike has worked with more than 10,000 speakers from companies all over the world, including giants like Google, Nike, Microsoft, Starbucks and the NSA. Go to bambee.com/timecrafting now to schedule your FREE HR audit. You’ll be glad you did. The Productivityist Podcast Pick of the Week: The Rework Podcast.

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Episode 283: Well-Presented with Mike Pacchione

Productivityist

Mike has worked with more than 10,000 speakers from companies all over the world, including giants like Google, Nike, Microsoft, Starbucks and the NSA. Go to bambee.com/timecrafting now to schedule your FREE HR audit. You’ll be glad you did. The Productivityist Podcast Pick of the Week: The Rework Podcast.

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