Small Business Labs

JULY 6, 2015

The Harvard Business Review's The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization covers the trend towards work being divided into ever smaller tasks performed by ever more specialized workers. The article suggests these workers will increasingly be contractors provided via online talent marketplaces instead of traditional employees.  The article argues that the hyperspecialization has several key advantages - speed, quality and cost.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 6, 2015

What are the main aspects of your role? I am Personal Assistant to the Chairman and Managing Director and Office Manager to an office of 45 and have 4 support staff reporting to me. The main aspects of my role are pretty traditional PA duties but we also do a number of client and staff functions which I’m responsible for. My Chairman and Managing Director also sit on many other boards which adds additional workload and tasks to my role.

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Job Advice Blog

JULY 6, 2015

Jobs Housing both huge corporations and thriving startups, every engineer or computer scientist should learn about Raleigh and consider a move. Several companies, including some of our out of state clients, have turned their eyes to Raleigh for their new projects.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 6, 2015

I want to picture this in your mind: a blindfolded man, living in a house he never saw before. The man doesn’t even know he’s … The post Blindfolded appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Small Business CEO

JULY 6, 2015

It happens. Someone posts a rant about you or your business on Ripoff Report (ripoffreport.com). Maybe it’s riddled with inaccuracies. Or perhaps the person who posted the report isn’t even a client, but instead a competitor who trades in fake reviews, hoping to direct potential clients away from your business to their business. Whatever the case, the bottom line is that the scathing profile on Ripoff Report could be decimating your business.

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