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Ten Critical Steps To Achieving Magnetic Leadership

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by Dianne Durkin, author of “ The Power of Magnetic Leadership “ What do the leaders of top companies do to create an inviting workplace filled with fully engaged and enthusiastic employees? The best leaders are people who know how to listen, can make a promise and deliver on that promise, and have stepped up to the plate and made the necessary investment to successfully engage their employees.

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ShopAtPlaces.com – Replacing The Middleman In India’s Retail Scene

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E-commerce is getting huge in India – according to industry watchers, the industry is expected to grow a compound annual growth rate of 57 per cent and is likely to reach US$34.2 billion by 2015. This trend is spurred by the surge in the use of mobile devices across the country (the number of mobile users in the country is expected to hit over 1 billion by 2015), and as consumers choose to bypass various middlemen and go directly to producers.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

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What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like? How will these trends impact the way we work, live and play? Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology.

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[Infographic] Workplace Injuries: Costs And Causes

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Workplace injuries are more common than we think. In fact, direct worker compensations from workplace injuries cost U.S. businesses around US$1 billion per week. And surprisingly, many of these don’t occur in high-risk environments like construction sites or factories – one out of every four cases of injury at the workplace is caused by overexertion.

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PostalPix – Photos From Phone To Doorstep

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We take tons of photos with our mobile phone. Most of them are destined to remain trapped in the deep recesses of our devices’ internal memory storage and never seen again. But some of these photos have deep sentimental value – so how does one quickly and easily develop these into actual printed pictures? That’s where PostalPix ( www.postalpix.com ) comes in.

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Nine “Resolutions” For Creating The Best Odds For Business Success In 2013

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by Bill McBean, author of “ The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows that You Don’t “. The confetti has fallen, the ball has dropped, and the champagne has been popped — 2012 is officially over, and 2013 is underway. For many business owners, that means doing a post-mortem on their businesses by looking back at what went right and what went wrong in the year gone by.

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Startups.Co Launches Entrepreneur Fundraising Resource, Funding 101

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New startup entrepreneurs who are looking to raise capital may well take a look at Funding 101 , a free educational resource on fundraising launched by business investor network Startups.Co. Developed by veteran entrepreneur Wil Schroter (who’ve launched nine Internet companies to date and currently the CEO and co-founder of Fundable.com ), Funding 101 serves as a tool to help startups navigate the challenges of startup funding- from initial business development and strategy, to preparing