On The Job

MAY 18, 2012

I thought the manager’s face would explode. I was at lunch with a high level finance executive the other day when his cell phone rang. He looked at the number displayed on the screen and his face turned beet red – I think I even saw a couple of purple splotches mixed in. He let the call go to voicemail and his face color returned to normal after a few minutes.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 18, 2012

VUCA is an acronym developed by the U.S. Army War College in the late 1990's to describe their view of the future strategic environment.   It stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity and we think this group of words does a pretty good job of describing today's business environment. We also think this operating environment explains why a lot of small businesses are not hiring additional employees.  Things are simply too uncertain and too volatile to take on

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Small Business CEO

MAY 18, 2012

The reasons to go green are often pitched as necessary changes for the continued existence of the world with growing populations and pollution. While not wrong, going green often comes with a stigma of raising costs of business, and in an unstable economy it can seem dangerous to go through any dramatic change in doing business. Here are some examples of ways going green can save you money and be good for business, all while helping the environment.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 18, 2012

Best selling author Neil Gaiman gave the commencement address at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His theme was "Make Good Art" and in it he shared his "secret freelancer knowledge": You get work however you get work, but people get to keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of today’s world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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