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How to Ask Your Boss to Pay for Continuing Education

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It’s logical to raise the topic of ongoing education in development conversations, whether it’s part of a performance review or a meeting on the books to discuss your career path. But don’t regard this as a one-and-done discussion; instead, seek to open the door to collaborative, ongoing conversations.

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Book Review: Sharing is Good

Small Business Labs

Beth Buczynski's Sharing is Good: How to save money, time and resources through collaborative consumption nicely fills this void.   The book also makes a strong case why we should share more - think sustainability and money savings - and provides the information needed to get started in the sharing economy.

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Book Review: The Sharing Economy by Arun Sundararajan

Small Business Labs

We follow Sundararajan's work closely and consider him one the top experts in this field, so were excited to get a copy of his new book. The book nicely covers the topics of trust and regulation as they relate to the sharing economy. We weren't disappointed. The chapter on blockchain is especially well done.

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How To Build A Thriving Coworking Community

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To overcome this, a chat app can be integrated into the workspace management system for coworkers to book desks, meeting rooms, and phone booths. Research conducted by Harvard Business Review found that 87% of respondents use their coworking space for socialization, with 54% saying they spend time with their coworkers outside of work.

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Are you suffering from collaboration overload? 9 beliefs and fears that help drive it

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We are collaborating too much. “We’re too eager to jump into, or be dragged into, active collaborations that might run better without us and that burn up our valuable time and energy,” he writes in his new book Beyond Collaboration Overload. . This becomes an endless cycle of escalating collaboration.

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Competition and Collaboration Creates High Performing Teams

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This encapsulates an inherent and powerful notion of teamwork where collaborative efforts and using complementary capabilities lead to progress and accomplishment of goals. A Harvard Business Review article entitled “Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams (November 2007: Lynda Gratton and Tamara J.

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Use These Tools to Make Your Remote Work Dreams Come True

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Services include career coaching, in-house experts who review your resume, one-on-one career coaching sessions, and flexible job search guidance. ” Clients, or buyers, can browse through these gigs and hire freelancers based on their needs, budget, and the freelancer’s ratings and reviews.