- News Flash: Employee Breaks Actually Increase Productivity - Some bosses believe employee breaks are a waste of time. But a growing body of evidence suggests that taking a constructive break from a mental task improves productivity. For example, a NASA study of pilots on long-haul flights found that those who took turns having brief midflight naps showed a 16% improvement in reaction times aft...
If You Can Think It, You Can Print It Imagine a world where you can literally print anything. Need a wrench for your toolbox? You can print it. Are you in the market to replace the handles on your dressers? Go right ahead and print them off. If you can think it, you can print it. That will soon be the law of the land with the release of 3-D printers to the average Joe. 3-D printers aren’t all...
- How to Get the Most out of Your Employees - Managers need to set clear standards for themselves and others. It’s also important that they walk the walk. Management and leadership are two different animals. Leaders are imaginative, passionate risk takers. They are visionaries who can inspire people and stir emotions. Their main focus is on ideas. Managers, on the other hand, need to be ration...
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- Live Like a Superachiever and Love What You Do - Success doesn't just happen. Those who make it to the top – whether they are star athletes, business titans or standouts in any other field of endeavor – set their sights on being successful and continually reach for the stars. These individuals have a number of common traits: Passion: Superachievers have unwavering faith in what the...
Four Tech Tips to Make Your Life Simpler - The world of technology moves quickly. Following are four products that will help simplify your tech life: Have an iPhone? Download the magicJack application to make free local and long distance calls in North America. Check out StumbleUpon, a search engine that lets you save the cool photos, videos and stories you find online. You can also ...
March 22nd, 2013
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Want to Be Profitable? 3 Metrics to Watch - You don’t have to possess a high degree of financial expertise to manage a small business. But there are three critical areas you need to monitor: Input Efficiency The first aspect of business operations to examine is input efficiency. This is commonly measured by knowing how much cost you incur for everything you sell. It goes beyond calculating o...
March 12th, 2013
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- 5 Tools From ‘The Cloud’ That Could Help Your Business - “The cloud” and “cloud computing” are two increasingly popular buzzwords in the tech world. Cloud computing refers to documents, resources and applications that any device with an Internet connection can access. For example, you can log on to Photoshop.com and use a basic photo editor on the website. The act of uploading your...
- Who’s in the Kitchen? Not Generation Y - They’re lined up at sidewalk-spilling bistros, and every night it’s a new Instagram photo of smiling 30-somethings posing over some fancy dish. The first question that comes to mind is don’t Gen Yers ever eat at home? And the answer is not often, unless you count takeout. Gen Y is generally assumed to have been born between the mid-’70s and ...
- Smart Business Owners Focusing on New Tax Issues - New tax initiatives are grabbing the attention of business owners in 2013. Addressing tax areas that demand renewed focus is a leading trend among small businesses. Last year, the IRS concluded a three-year project on employment tax compliance, which revealed that companies are not correctly reporting employee use of business vehicles. Alert ...
How Your Credit Score is Calculated - Credit scores are becoming increasingly important, with many employers even factoring this into their hiring decisions. A credit score is based on a credit report, which is a detailed account of one’s credit history, borrowings, repayments, and credit inquiries. It indicates the financial responsibility of an individual, including on-time monthly paymen...
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