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Gartner's Top Trends for 2017

Small Business Labs

We're not referring to the holidays.   Gartner, the large technology analyst firm, has already released multiple 2017 trends lists.    Below is their list of the top technology trends for 2017. Gartner also released a 2017 Top 10 Strategic Predictions list. It's that time of year again.

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Assistants as information managers

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Back in 2013 HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland released the Management Assistant 2020 report , which detailed how the role of an Assistant will change by 2020. These include, managing the internal filing system, administrative tasks such as holiday requests, travel management, sick leave etc.

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How Happy Are You?

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I’d spent most of the holiday scrubbing the cabinets of a rental home, fixing a crack in the ceiling and painting the living room. That’s barely halfway satisfied, and I was on a holiday vacation for most of it. In 2017, I left my job as the editor of a magazine to freelance and spend time with my dad in his final years.

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25 Holiday Gift Ideas That Support Minority-Owned Businesses

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In fact, early in the pandemic, Black business ownership rates fell 41% from February to April 2020, according to a report from the House Committee on Small Business. It’s time to put our money where our mouths were when we marched for equality and social justice—which is the kind of holiday spirit I want to be a part of.

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Leading with Kindness: 14 Most Charitable Celebrities

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Every single employee, whether you’re an intern, part-time, holiday help or C-level, should have the same level of love and respect and care,” Scott told SUCCESS in 2016. It’s a small act of kindness, within my control in an out-of-control world,” Bush wrote in an April 2020 Instagram caption. How you treat people is what you get back.”

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Q&A: Bauble Stockings Founder on Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

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Kate Stice Stewart: It’s 2017, and I’m on my laptop searching “fair trade.” In November 2020, Allison Speer, a Los Angeles publicist who’s good friends with [Nicky’s mother] Kathy Hilton, gifted her the stockings. Luckily, most of my business is during the holidays, so I have flexibility right in the sweet spot of spring.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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In the predawn hours of a Saturday morning in January 2017, an arsonist set fire to the Victoria Islamic Center, a mosque in Victoria, Texas. In March 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Modern Love column, “ You May Want to Marry My Husband ,” appeared in print and online in The New York Times. Neighborly Love. Jamie Friedlander.

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