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Do Your Employees Think Like Owners? 10 Tips For Building An Entrepreneurial Culture.

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Here’s an example of how they made performance-based compensation work: If someone sold 100 cases in April 2000, and 100 cases in April 2001 (these numbers are unrealistically small for simplicity), their commission would be the same in both years. They’ll be excited to be part of the process.

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Life, Death And Gold: Remembering The Panic Of 1857

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The New York branch of the Cincinnati-based Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company failed in late August 1857, felled by an embezzlement scandal. Reports of financial instability in New York quickly carried between cities by the new telecommunications medium, the telegraph , which spread more fear than information.

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Can You Track An Employee’s Cell Phone Without Installing Software?

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The last federal legislation to address this issue was the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 , updated in the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and subsequent amendments. There was also a case out of New York in 2013 – Cunningham v. New York State Department of Labor – that also addressed GPS tracking of vehicles.

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No Logical Relation Between Employment And Health Care: Kenneth Arrow

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Born in New York City in 1921, at 51, Mr. Arrow was the youngest person ever to receive the award. Cara Wick started her banking career in 2001. by Cara Wick, President of Wick Financial. As healthcare makes headlines, I wish more people listened to Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Joseph Arrow. Cara holds a B.A

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Three Counterintuitive Ways To Build A Business That Lasts

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Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue. Though it may sound trivial at first, it’s important to set aside a good portion of your budget to establish a comfortable place to be and show your staff that you care about them.