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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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Flipboard Photo courtesy of Flipboard Who they are: From health care to fashion, getting news you care about without looking up dozens of individual media sources can be daunting. Most Innovative Company in Health & Wellness 4. Seed Health Inc. Photo cred: courtesy of Group Black Most Innovative Media Company 3.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

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Our overall economic outlook for 2013 is for continued moderate growth with U.S. 2013 will see rapid increases in the number of small businesses using powerful yet inexpensive cloud-based data and analytical tools.    We borrowed this trend from the 2013 Future Workforce Trends from our friends at MBO Partners.

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How to Name Your Business

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What does it cost (not only in terms of price, but also time)? For example, someone thinking about using the word “synergy” to name their health consulting company ought to reconsider. This article was published in May 2013 and has been updated. Why should I believe you? What’s in it for me? Photo by Jacob Lund/Shutterstock.

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Obamacare's Impact on Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

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As the chart below shows, the percentage of full-time independent workers with health insurance has increased from 64% in 2013 to 83% in 2016. million more independent workers have health insurance than in 2013.  This increase is clearly due to Obamacare, which took effect in 2014. This means about 3.3

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Embrace the chaos: the office must find a new purpose, conference concludes

Workplace Insight

For those that don’t get the link, journalists are often the first to bash their awful offices if media headlines like this Guardian one back in 2013 are anything to go by – Open-plan offices were devised by Satan in the deepest caverns of hell ). It’s a cost and experience juggling exercise.

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5 reasons to learn a foreign language to further your career

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With several financial, employment, as well as social and health benefits to knowing a second language, it is surprising that only one quarter of Brits are actually able to speak in another tongue. In today’s global society being bilingual is one of the most advantageous skills you can have.

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FAANGs for the memories: how tech palaces lost their lustre

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The plot of land, which cost $4.5 She uses her own previous work schedule of 50-60 hour weeks which took its toll on her health and it was this that led her to rethink what work really is. Other issues where management and younger staff clash is the importance of empathy and the impact of work on mental health.