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What Companies Can Learn from the Southwest Airlines Crisis

Success

Southwest’s weaknesses were its antiquated software that couldn’t handle the extreme weather event, and its point-to-point operations model. The Black Swan theory and tradeoffs between efficiency and resiliency The Southwest situation can be classified as a Black Swan event. Most other airlines employ a hub-and-spoke model.

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How to Partner with a Rival for a Win-Win

Success

Blue Moon Fair Trade partners with three other fair-trade retailers to combine trans-Pacific shipments, saving all of them up to 40% in shipping and paperwork expenses. We meet twice monthly to plan events. Think Work Media is a marketing agency. Consider coming together to buy inventory or vendor services in bulk.

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Re-designing meetings

Practically Perfect PA

As well as the actual spend, taking senior staff away from the office has a large opportunity cost and organisations should do everything they can to make sure that the time spent at the event is adding value to the business. But how often do our executives return from these events with nothing more to show than a hangover?

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10 Candidate Sourcing Strategies That Recruiters Can Use This Season

Recruit CRM

Sometimes it's done manually (quite an old school method) while the other way round is hiring a responsible company for it (like a recruitment agency). We have mentioned 10 such trending strategies that your agency can put to use this year. Put Your Employees' Network To Good Use Employ sourcing sessions to expand your talent pool.

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Day in the life: Tess Keppe

Practically Perfect PA

The first thing I do in the morning is “eat that frog”… the thing on my list that I put off doing the day before; it’s usually expenses! Can you recommend any events, books, publications, websites, and training programmes for other assistants? “ Then I usually get to the office for about 9.30 which is a real treat.

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Stay organized and secure with electronic records management

BMT Office Administration

These documents act as official records that certain events took place or that proper procedures were followed. Many serve as supporting evidence when the company files taxes or gives reports to other federal agencies. Companies commonly make backup copies of files in the event a problem occurs.

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The Bribery Act – what do assistants need to know?

Practically Perfect PA

Last week I went along to Confex 2012, for those that don’t know Confex is a large exhibition aimed predominately at event organisers. During this year’s event the powers that be put on a PA day which along with the exhibition including specific training sessions for PAs.

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