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Why Workplace Design Should Extend To The Home

The Horizons Tracker

Of course, this is not a new concept, with telecommuting existing as a concept back in the 1970s, but the availability of technology has made it increasingly feasible. Indeed, across Asia at the moment, organizations are scrambling to put remote working procedures in place in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Attracting the best.

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MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Small business sales were hit hard during the crisis and may still be soft, undermining firms demand for loan capital.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis. Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. — of manure a month. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. Our Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate advisors in Florida are believers. While there are exceptions to every rule, don’t expect overnight success.

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Are the Super-Rich Really Ruining the World’s Great Cities?

Harvard Business Review

The global super-rich who are snapping up real estate in superstar cities aren’t really buying “homes,” in the conventional sense of that term, to live in and use. This article is adapted from the author’s recent book The New Urban Crisis. Cities also help new companies attract talent.

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

Temporary employment has jumped 50% since the depths of the financial crisis. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. For the gainfully underemployed, everyday is BYOD; their technologies are becoming their toolkits.