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Team Building 101: Techniques to Improve Your Team’s Productivity

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Several consultancy firms are beginning to seriously consider this activity for its innovative approach to effective team-building – especially in this age of YouTube marketing and social media. After the research is done and the products selected, each team can create a video or photo product portfolio for the charity to review.

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What Marissa Mayer should bring to Yahoo

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As a CEO she could have set the tone that happy productive employee is more preferable than burnt out ones. Innovation. The most important thing that I see for this change is the opportunity to create an organization focused on innovation. That’s the only way innovation works, with a sense of freedom. That’s up to Mayer.

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Top 10 Economic Facts of Workplace Diversity

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NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Having a diverse workforce not only benefits company innovation and productivity but it also benefits the economy. From driving economic growth to being competitive in a globalized world, workplace diversity is critical to economic and business success.

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Can a CEO be brutally honest?

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The memo begs the question, can honesty propel innovation? More often than not, innovation springs from neccessity. Your product is not moving fast enough, your competitor has found the next big thing; things seem to be happening to everyone but you. Read the full memo here, here.)

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Get your Idea off the Ground – Green Business Startup Capital through GreenFunder.com

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The new crowdfunding website GreenFunder.com offers a unique tool for innovators, entrepreneurs, and creators who have a burning desire to raise money and awareness for their socially responsible, sustainable, or green project. Socially responsible projects = benefit a person, community or the environment.

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The Growing Power of Women in Business

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Who is running and leading the companies that make the products women are buying for themselves and their families? When women are excited and passionate about a product, a service, a company, or whatever they are doing, they become extremely driven from that emotion. This brings us to the other side of the equation. Passion counts.

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Can Small Business learn from the American Airlines Merger?

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What strategic partnerships should be born out of is the possibility of creating an innovative new product, the possibility of breaking into an undiscovered market or the possibility of introducing the next big thing. Our language is partnerships or strategic alliances and these relationships should be born out of opportunity.

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