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Complimentary Resource – Using Technology to Increase Small Business Productivity

Strategy Driven

Using Technology to Increase Small Business Productivity. Learn how you can save time and money by using these four technology trends to support your small business. In this eBook, you will find valuable information about some of the latest technology trends that can help support your business by saving you time, money and resources.

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Grassroots Leadership by the Rising Middle Class

Coaching Tip

A 2012 report by the European Union Institute for Security Studies, using a broader definition of middle class, predicted that the number of people in that category would grow from 1.8 They are technology-savvy and use social media like Facebook FB +0.89% and Twitter to broadcast information and organize demonstrations. billion).

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Six Predictions for Digital Business in 2012

Harvard Business Review

My crystal ball devoted to the intersection of business and digital technology brought forth six predictions for 2012. When Amazon's Kindle Fire came out I wrote that the tablet wars were starting in earnest, and when I hear Eric Schmidt promise a "highest quality" Android tablet in 2012 I get excited to see what's coming.

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New Leadership Must Inspire New Talent

ExactHire - Leadership

In my previous two posts from this series, I discussed how changing demographics, views on the nature of work and the workplace, and rapid advances in technology have converged to create intense competition for talent in today’s job market. These blogs, tweets, posts, podcasts, ebooks, etc.

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Independent Bookstores Should Negotiate a Better Offer with Amazon Source

Harvard Business Review

Retailers can buy the products at a 6% discount and earn a 10% commission on ebook sales recorded for a given device for the next two years. of publisher revenues in 2012. of publisher revenues in 2012. Ebooks alone made up two-thirds of that volume. And Kindle captured two-thirds of all ebooks bought last year.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. According to a PriceWaterhouse Coopers preliminary review , 2012 venture funding has actually declined. Individual empowerment. Is HR your best badgemeister?

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Ditch the Notebook in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Look back on 2012 and it's likely that you're staring into a tunnel where the images get blurrier as they get further away. You can make 2012 the last year that you forget, if you this year you commit to using a digital notebook like Evernote. My ebook, Work Smarter with Evernote , can show you how.