Small Business Labs

MARCH 28, 2017

A recent academic study, The End of Men and Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market , shows that women are rapidly gaining ground in a number of high paying fields. The reason is success in a growing number of high-skill professions requires more interpersonal skills like collaboration, empathy, and managing others. As the study points out, there's a lot of research showing women, on average, have stronger interpersonal skills than men.  Key quote from the study abstract: Since

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 28, 2017

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. Today’s topic is a deserving one. However, some may wonder what it has to do with career success. After all, winners never quit and quitters never win, right? I despise that old cliché because it’s flat out wrong in the working world. It creates a stubborn, hardheaded sense of commitment—the kind that inspires people to stay in bad jobs for decades.

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Clutter Coach

MARCH 28, 2017

by If you’re new to the productivity game, you may not know about Merlin Mann, who invented the game. Well, not exactly. But he did coin “in box zero,” which went viral. His idea was that instead of idly perusing your email in box, you do it with intent. Answer what needs to be answered. File what needs to be filed. Act on what needs to be acted on.

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Eco-Office Gals

MARCH 28, 2017

Many businesses have adopted recycling programs for office paper, inks and toner, plastics, and aluminum as a matter of course. For companies ready to take conservation efforts to the next level, green furniture is the key to getting there. Green Furniture. Green office furniture, now available for lease or for purchase, is made from recycled materials or materials that can be recycled with little or no harm to our environment.

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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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Productivityist

MARCH 28, 2017

This guest post is by Kent Sanders. Kent is an author, college professor, and host of the Born to Create podcast. He writes about mindset and productivity for creatives at KentSanders.net. You can click here to download a free resource to help you be more productive and creative. You can also connect with Kent on Facebook and Twitter. The time I spent in grad school was one of the most exciting periods of my life.

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 28, 2017

Cybercrime is a serious problem that costs billions of dollars every year. Not only is it continuing to increase, cyber attacks are becoming more customized and sophisticated. Not only that, the list of computer crimes is growing. It currently includes: Intellectual property theft: this includes theft of any copyrighted material, trademark violations and theft of trade secrets.

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 28, 2017

The restaurant industry has attracted entrepreneurs from all walks of life to try their hand at restaurant management and ownership. While this business endeavor can be attractive, it’s also a challenging venture that has a variety of hidden obstacles. Research shows that one in every three restaurants closes its doors for good within the first three years of business.

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 28, 2017

Increasing Your Research Palette. Oftentimes it can be difficult to find information about a given organization or corporation. You do a Google search, but everything you find is sanitized. When you need information from an unbiased source on a corporation, finding that data will usually take a lot of time and energy. That time represents a diminished opportunity cost.

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