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How To Banish Procrastination Once And For All

Allwork

The good news is, if you struggle to tick work tasks off your to-do list, you can find resolution in productive work environments like coworking spaces. It seems that coworking spaces might be the ultimate work environment to overcome the annoying urge to put things off. What’s so wrong with working from home?

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Happy International Coworking Day 2023! See How Communities Around The World Are Celebrating

Allwork

Marked on August 9 each year, International Coworking Day celebrates the day in 2005 when the self-proclaimed pioneer of coworking, Brad Neuberg, mentioned it for the first time. On this day, coworking spaces worldwide open their doors to celebrate with their communities to spread awareness about coworking.

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

Success

All the hedge fund managers in Greenwich, Connecticut, probably didn’t pay for their Ferraris by being nice to people. 1, 2005, only three days before Foster’s first child was born. But once they’ve added many new managers, they have to be ready to let go. Nice people don’t always finish first. The company was launched on Feb.

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Forget all the talk of Blue Monday; work is still (largely) good for us

Workplace Insight

We say ‘officially’, but like the idea of ‘Body Odour’ its common usage hides the fact that it was originally created as part of a PR campaign, in this case one for Sky’s travel channel in 2005. Managers still pay good money to hear how the thinking of 2500 year old Chinese general Sun Tzu can be applied at the likes of Sunshine Desserts.

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CEO Says It's Important to Be Paranoid

On The Job

But if you’re dealing with employee management on a regular basis, you might know the right answer: Kronites are the people who keep Kronos, a worldwide workforce management cloud solution company, running. It has moved from zero cloud customers in 2005 to some 16,000 customers in 2015.

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ESG ambitions should top organisational agendas

Workplace Insight

When the idea of ESG (environmental, social and governance credentials) first surfaced nearly two decades ago in a 2005 United Nations report, it was just an acronym businesses were trying to understand and get to grips with. It is more important than ever to nurture working environments that make this possible.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

Success

When I started as a government contract consultant in 2005, I would accept all kinds of consulting: sales and marketing, certification, business development and contracts. I could have created a business in which I had employees and was involved in managing the process, but I never wanted to do that. Mike Kilchenstein.

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