Thu.Feb 16, 2012

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What Corporations Can Learn from Coworking Spaces

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By Liz Elam, founder/curator of Link Coworking. I don’t have anything bad to say about my time in Corporate America. I will tell you that I now enter my work day excited to go greet my members and provide a place for them to get their work done, whatever it maybe. I like to call myself a Curator and I’ll tell you why – it’s because I’m a keeper of a collection.

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Are You Committing the Seven Deadly Sins of Business Transformation?

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by Mohan Nair, author of “ Strategic Business Transformation: The 7 Deadly Sins to Overcome “ Every day millions of Americans arrive at work filled with low-level dread and resignation. Since the recession hit (or perhaps before), they’ve been overloaded, overstressed, and overwhelmed. The typical workday is a marathon of rushing from one task after another, with few breaks between these bursts of effort, and even fewer words of thanks from equally frantic managers and coworkers.

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[Infographic] How To Build A Dependable Workforce

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This may not come to you as a surprise, but 53-percent of job applicants list some sort of untruth on their resumes. That’s not even talking about what they choose NOT to list. As an entrepreneur and small business owner, it’s up to you to take certain steps when it comes to your hiring process so as to weed out the lemons… before they ruin your business.

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[New York] [Event] America Means Business

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Here’s a new New York-based entrepreneurship event to rival New York Entrepreneurship Week – America Means Business is a three day event, held on June 13-15, that will see various activities relating to entrepreneurship take place in New York. America Means Business aims to address the needs of entrepreneurs and assist and inspire those who have the dream of opening their own business.

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