On The Job

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” – W. Edwards Deming. Deming died in 1993, but the oft-quoted statistician and quality management guru’s words still ring true in today’s competitive environment where data is gaining more importance in business dealings. Specifically, it’s estimated by IDC that worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics will hit $203 billion in 2020, a significant jump from the $130.1 billion spent last year.

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Energage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

And How Top Workplaces Prevent These Challenges on the Engagement Journey. After much debate about the merits of employee engagement, even the most critical executives will now admit employee engagement is a tremendous asset to an organization – perhaps even a strategic advantage. And yet, one report after another still names employee engagement and workplace culture at the top of a CEO’s many challenges: • The Conference Board’s annual CEO survey lists six top challenges for CEOs today, five of

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Small Business CEO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Every day, there is someone with a new and fresh idea. Start up businesses litter the internet. Some make it and others just don’t. But what’s the difference? What helps those that succeed to reach the heights they do? How do they turn nothing into a booming, profitable business? Below are three things that you must do to solidify the foundation of a new start up company.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

I welcome Joanne Ling and Tracey Fry from Sister Mixin’ to the show this time around. I met these two sisters at Chris Drucker’s Tropical Think Tank in March 2017 and we had a great time learning and spending time with a ton of like-minded people over the course of the event. We discussed a variety of topics during this episode including decision-making, delegation, planning, elimination of tasks and things that aren’t working for you, and what it’s like for two siblings

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Small Business CEO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

One thing’s for sure: you’re getting into the restaurant business because you love it. For many people just like you, opening a restaurant the ultimate dream — combining a love of food, hospitality, people and entrepreneurship. It will be a lot of work but it will be worth it. But while passion is the glue that will hold it all together, we’ve already mentioned the most important ingredient: hard work.

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