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What Startups Need to Know Before Hiring More Employees
Growing a startup company is exciting, but it can also be challenging. The most challenging aspect of growing a startup is expanding your workforce. Hiring new people is a process that must be done with…
Protecting Your Startup’s Intellectual Property
An oft-neglected part of running a startup involves the products unique to your brand. What can you do to make sure your intellectual property stays yours? When we think of Silicon Valley, we call to…
Bleisure: The Growing Trend in Business Travel
Bleisure, or business travel combined with some leisure travel, is a growing trend for businesses. Business travel makes up 30 percent of annual travel. Bleisure is where employees add two or three days of leisure…
Getting Things from Here to There
Since ancient times, people have needed to haul cargo from one place to another. In ancient China, the Silk Road was the main mode of transportation for things like silk, dishes and pottery, grapes, woolen…
Personality Matters: 3 Traits for Call Center Agents
Call centers have consistently high turnover rates. Turnover rates as high as 20 percent are considered “low,” and some call centers even have the distinction of achieving 100 percent turnover. It’s not hard to see why: The…
Limiting Absenteeism in the Workplace
Limiting costs and increasing efficiency are priorities for any business, particularly SMEs. With studies indicating that, on average, 9 days of unscheduled absence are taken by employees in the UK, US, and Canada each year,…
5 Tips for Giving Constructive Feedback to Your Employees
Many managers cringe at the mention of giving feedback to their employees—most of them are usually trained to lead teams or manage resources, not give constructive feedback. This is a serious mistake that can cost…
There’s Gold in Repurposing Intellectual Property
Several times a month, I’d have lunch with one of my CEOs, and each time we’d find ourselves digging into the intellectual property developed by the company over the years, just to refresh ourselves about…
How is a Business Ecosystem a Key Driver to Success?
In a Harvard Magazine interview, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative, explained: “In Silicon Valley, there is a sense that you prosper only because you’re surrounded by lots…
What Uber Is and Isn’t—and How You Can Benefit
Uber is celebrating its fifth anniversary and it certainly has accomplished a lot in five years. It’s hard to imagine another company that has so quickly established a global presence. The last figures I saw…
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