Small Business Labs

JULY 30, 2014

Another recent New York Times article, If Marriage Moves Beyond Our Means , reviews the book Marriage Markets. This book focuses on how marriage rates vary by income, a topic also covered in two interesting book we've reviewed - Is Marriage for White People and Coming Apart.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 9, 2013

There's no doubt the traditional career path of staying with a single company, or a small number of employers, and rising through the ranks until you retire is no longer viable for most people. I would add another key reason, which the book probably missed due to be released prior to the Great Recession.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 30, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Yahoo CEO on Local Content | Main | Non-Mortgage Debt and Working in Retirement » June 30, 2010 Wisconsin, Illinois Companies Feeling the Recovery The QPS Employment Group is a staffing and recruiting firm operating in Wisconsin and Illinois.  Kudos to QPS for their survey work. 

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 1, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Urban Farming Continues to Expand | Main | CEOs Believe Technology is Rising in Importance » June 01, 2010 Learning From Large Corporation CEOs Every other year IBM conducts a global survey of large corporation CEOs.  This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

  I will be participating in a Tweet Chat discussing the survey results this wednesday (September 15th) from 1:00pm to 2:30pm ET.    All of these are better than the 2010 expectations data from the prior survey, which was done late last year.   Click here for more information and to register. View an alternate.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 2, 2010

  But following up on yesterday's post on IBM's global CEO survey , I wanted to highlight one of their charts.    The chart below shows their survey results on the key external forces likely to impact large corporations over the next 3 years.   Technology allows companies to better manage complexity.

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Energage

APRIL 20, 2017

Robert Lavinga, HR director at the University of Wisconsin and the author of a book on engaging government employees, has written in Harvard Business Review that “… there are no secrets to maximizing employee engagement. After we receive the survey report, we conduct focus group meetings of 10 to 15 employees from different departments.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 4, 2010

  Conduct two surveys augmented by in-person interviews.   The first will survey coworking facility owners and identify key facility statistics such as size of the facility, number of desks and offices, services offered, number and type of members, etc.   We will be making our research findings public. 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 18, 2010

Recent survey results from Network Solutions Small Business Success Index shows that about 19% of small businesses (less than 100 employees) sell outside the U.S.  .  It covers a wide range of global trends and demographic shifts with an emphasis on the growing power of Asia and BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 30, 2010

The DIY BIO blog  recently did a survey looking at the demand for a coworking biology lab.  .  While most Hackerspaces are targeted at hobbyists, a growing number also target independent workers and small businesses.      For those that are interested, there is also Bio-Curious Google Group. 

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Small Business Labs

JULY 30, 2010

The DIY BIO blog  recently did a survey looking at the demand for a coworking biology lab.  .  While most Hackerspaces are targeted at hobbyists, a growing number also target independent workers and small businesses.      For those that are interested, there is also Bio-Curious Google Group. 

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Small Business Labs

JULY 7, 2010

  Having said that, for obvious reasons it is likely any official survey undercounts illegal aliens.  .  According to the BLS technical notes it does include "undocumented workers", the BLS term for illegal aliens.  This prevents automated programs from posting comments. View an alternate.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 25, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Please Take "The Organizational Use of Video Storytelling" Survey | Main | Silicon Prairie » June 25, 2010 Corporate Speed Dating Opportunity with Intuit Intuit is holding their 2nd   Entrepreneur Day on August 16th in Mountain View, California. 

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 23, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Street Food Gets Real | Main | Please Take "The Organizational Use of Video Storytelling" Survey » June 23, 2010 More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food Interesting article in the Washington Post on mobile slaughterhouses.  Having trouble reading this image?

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Here goes: * When I was interviewing bosses for my book, "45 Things That Drive Your Boss Crazy.and How to Avoid Them," I was surprised by the vehemence some managers had for employees who could not write them a simple note. Whatever challenges older applicants face, demographics are increasingly on the side of retired workers.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 19, 2010

Our survey research is showing a growing number of small businesses are exporting, but the overall numbers are still small. Would love to here other perspectives out there? Posted by: Tom Hood | August 21, 2010 at 01:09 PM Tom: I think the easiest way to benefit from growth overseas is to export. Having trouble reading this image?

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Small Business Labs

MAY 20, 2010

  Recent survey results from the Network Solutions Small Business Success Index  also show this.  .  In our research we're seeing a lot of small businesses who are disappointed with social media.    Only 22% of small businesses who use social media believe it has been profitable. 

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Continuing, she explained there were several issue areas: Seasoned assistants (not being seasoned, but the fact that all that knowledge will retire in 5-7 years) who will replace them? In a recent survey, 624 respondents presented 230 different titles! By Nancy Fraze, Reporter in the Field. Young Generation. How sad is that?”

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Continuing, she explained there were several issue areas: Seasoned assistants (not being seasoned, but the fact that all that knowledge will retire in 5-7 years) who will replace them? In a recent survey, 624 respondents presented 230 different titles! By Nancy Fraze, Reporter in the Field. Young Generation. How sad is that?”

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On The Job

MAY 19, 2010

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, May 19, 2010 The Most Critical Lessons From This Crummy Job Market When I was a kid, one of those "grown-up" sayings that made no sense to me was "never say never again."

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On The Job

JUNE 1, 2009

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, June 1, 2009 Is Stress Making You Want to Kiss Your Job Goodbye? They can’t even look forward to retirement, because they’re going to have to work longer now.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 31, 2024

The analysis was carried out by a team at the University of Salford led by Dr April Fullstay and Dr Juan Bjorn Avery-Minit drawing on five years of research and surveys across a range of issues to create the ‘most comprehensive overview of UK absenteeism and unproductive behaviours, their causes and consequences yet published’.

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Service Untitled

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

“The stock sharing and the retirement plan is great.&# Tom Burello, a manager in Anderson, South Carolina, who has been with Publix for ten years praises the company as being an excellent and upbeat place to work.

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On The Job

AUGUST 3, 2009

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, August 3, 2009 Has Workplace Loyalty Gone to the Dogs? In the book, the authors outline this relationship DNA by looking at various “styles” such as someone who is high in empathy.

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Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

We retired traditional call center metrics to focus on the voice of the customer – what we call “Recommend to a Friend” has become a primary metric for our customer care professional performance so is tied to their incentive pay now. So it was a real cultural shift for us.

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On The Job

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y? Today, more than 50 percent of candidates say they will take the salary offered.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

I put together a 10 question survey that I had planned to accost passers by with outside the few foreign wine boutiques as well as restaurant owners. He is now retired but worked as a customs officer and also owned a restaurant that he was forced to sell after it ran at a loss for 2 years. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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Bonnie Low Kramen

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The news stories focus on completely legitimate reasons for why this is happening, such as staff taking early retirement, fears about Covid and not wanting to return to the office, lack of childcare, and of course, the search for better jobs at higher compensation. What’s going on? What is chasing all these people away?

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Success

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Robert Kiyosaki, best-selling author of the Rich Dad Poor Dad book series, said entrepreneurs who break away from typical jobs and create their own sources of income are in the best position to weather an economic storm. And companies that weren’t cutting jobs cut benefits, from retirement funds to healthcare coverage.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Before I retire for the day with a nice glass of my favorite malt, I wonder what she means about the Scots and blending skills? Carl from Paid Surveys Said on October 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 am This is a truly inspiring story. I could not agree more, I hope Shirley is well on her way to business and private life success. Any idea anyone?

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

When I am putting together an editing report or when I am fact-checking – I often work on books that match subject areas I studied. Now I can just work the job I want and retire happy&# I’m like, you moron, education never stops! Alas, that’s not going to happen, so books will have to do.

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Service Untitled

JULY 15, 2010

He begins his book asking the retailer to identify what type of business owner he might be, and breaks down the four personalities to: - Driver : Extroverted, egotistical, project driven, and makes decisions based on results. The book starts out like a regular retail sales training book, but highlights some great ideas.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Moderated by: Cynthia Young, Retired Executive & Culture Builder – UT Southwestern, Ambit Energy & Southwest Airlines. – Nancy Nordberg, Retired Executive Assistant to the CEO, Maxim Integrated. “And we give them the book.” Nan Barry, Managing Director, Southwest Airlines. ” GATHER THE DATA.

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Success

JULY 17, 2021

In 2018, my Uncle Bill bought me the book Vladimir Putin: Life Coach. For clients of Jo Davis , the work is “[finding] meaning, a career change, retirement or planning for it.”. These are actual findings from an industry survey. A helpful book, The Prosperous Coach covers this strategy in detail. Read books.

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