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The Right Way to Cut Costs

HR Digest

It is important to consider the impact on employee morale and the overall productivity of the remaining workforce. By involving employees in the decision-making process and providing support during transitions, you can minimize the negative impact on morale and productivity.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Interest rates on real estate loans had climbed to 20 percent and higher. Like Jim Collins accomplished in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t , Peters and Waterman developed a methodology for their study. Might loving the customer help companies play a role in boosting the morale of the country?

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Top 7 Tips to Ensure Employee Satisfaction in Your Real Estate Brokerage

Strategy Driven

If you want to attract the best of the best real estate agents to your brokerage, it’s crucial to ensure employee satisfaction. For those in need of ideas to bolster real estate recruitment, getbrokerkit.com can help. Develop a Recognition System. Before you can solve a problem, you need to know what it is.

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New Paper Explores How We Should Use Digital Technology Responsibly

The Horizons Tracker

As technology has advanced more and more discussion has revolved around ensuring it develops in an ethical way and to the benefit of all of society. Establish ways in which the organisation can be more responsible, such as ensuring there are specific staff who are able to develop policy relating to digital technology use.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

And the risks are real: Zillow’s research predicts that $400 billion dollars of real estate value in Florida could be at risk from climate change by the year 2100. By investing in these durable improvements, real estate owners can lower their premiums because they have reduced the risk that their real estate assets face.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

One of those banks, Anglo-Irish Bank, lent 67 billion euros to the non-financial sector (real estate) in 2007 alone. Real estate had become so central to the Spanish economy that construction alone generated 14 percent of employment and 16 percent of national output in 2007. In Spain, really only the scale is different.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

Facebook’s News Feed stream is an incredibly valuable piece of digital real estate, without historical precedent. Outside developers are now welcome, but must apply, and must play by Facebook’s limiting technical rules in order to be served up by Internet.org’s delivery platform. Close to 1.5