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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

Put More Effort Into Effective Delegation It is absolutely accurate to state that intuitive delegation is part and parcel of the role of a leader, but if you can admit to yourself that you often hand out specific kinds of tasks and projects to the same people time and time again and without thinking, then this needs to change.

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Top Tips For Starting A Courier Business

Strategy Driven

The materials and equipment that you will likely need for your courier business might include things like cell phones, two-way radios if you’re hiring one or more employees, office supplies like envelopes, pens, pencils, and notebooks, a GPS unit, and computer software to help you to track pick-ups, deliveries, invoicing, and bookkeeping.

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Top Tips To Start An Online Business

Strategy Driven

To develop a viable business idea is, in any case, the basis of your business success. As well as a unique idea, you should develop a clear strategy early on. That is why it is important to ensure that you work with good software for inventory management right from the start. Always Remember Your Target Audience.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. While delivering millions of dollars in profits, these projects have helped develop a cadre of leaders who can inspire teams to achieve big goals.

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Doing Good Via Spam Protection: The Art of Leverage | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

As you can see whatever words OCR (Optical Character Recognition software) could not recognize well enough are handed off to reCAPTCHA which sends them to various websites to be used as “challenge words&# for spam protection. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites.

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Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy

Harvard Business Review

Around the same time, Chinese companies like Foxconn were developing less expensive approaches to manufacturing, and opening those facilities up to product designers across the globe. FedEx offered overnight delivery services in the 1970s, letting anyone ship a product anywhere, fast, at a modest cost.

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