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WEEE Recycling Is Not Just Good Business – It’s the Law

Eco-Office Gals

Since the 2007 Directive placed the responsibility for end life product disposal firmly on the shoulders of any company that manufactures, retails, otherwise distributes, stores or disposes of electrical or electronic equipment – failure to comply is creating devastating consequences for developing countries that accept black market e-waste.

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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

Success

To the sailing community, she’s a 2007 Beneteau Oceanis 40 with a two-cabin layout. The boat is a fragile piece of equipment, you can lose it from one day to the other if weather comes or you have a fire. Her name is Polar Seal. But it is tiring, exhausting and uncertain.

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Competition and Collaboration Creates High Performing Teams

BioTeams

A Harvard Business Review article entitled “Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams (November 2007: Lynda Gratton and Tamara J. Harvard Business Review, (November 2007). In the enterprise contexts its natural to have large project teams comprising of diverse cultural, academic, racial and skillset backgrounds. and Erickson, T.

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The Wall Street Journal's Small Business, Big Innovation Contest

Small Business Labs

  Key quote from their submission: Using similar technology and equipment employed in the automotive side of our retail operations, we added a business that remanufactures airport ground services transportation equipment axles. is an 80 year old retail store who faced declining sales from 2007 to 2009. 

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Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget

The Small Business Blog

Many equipment manufacturers offer free training to companies that purchase their products. Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 29, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Don’t overlook the usefulness of this.

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The U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance

Small Business Labs

.  Key quote from their study press release : "Products that require less labor and are churned out in modest volumes, such as household appliances and construction equipment, are most likely to shift to U.S. production. " The big driver leading to higher overseas manufacturing costs are higher wages. 

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Ten Small Business Startup Ideas – 2009/09/20 | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

The Small Business Blog

A company which takes your dead electronic equipment and smashes it until it becomes modern art! A website teaching readers about the day-to-day training requirements for various sports. Improvisational comedy confidence-building exercises. A premium hotline providing legal advice. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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