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Workplace Violence - Acknowledge, Anticipate, and Act
Organizations of all kinds must develop policies and contingency plans to deal with the potentialities of workplace violence. This article, designed as a three-part series but easily adaptable to a single-article format, reviews government and industry data on workplace violence and provides readers with strategies they can use to prevent, or deal with, violence in the workplace.
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New Grads - Welcome!
Quick tips to help New College Graduates navigate successfully in their new careers.
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Are Consultants Wasting Your Time with your Business Plans?
Most business owners don't have a Business Plan. And most of those that do never look at their plan once it's completed. It is easier for a consultant to sell a business owner a plan when they don't have to explain what they must do to make it work.
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Don't Gamble With Your Business
Half of all new businesses will fail their first year due to money problems. Learn what options you have before you become one of them.
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Auctions by Government
What do governments do with their surplus and/or impounded merchandise? Surplus merchandise is government owned goods that are no longer needed. They may be office furnishings, guns, ships, buildings, office equipment. Also included in surplus merchandise is military equipment, Coast Guard equipment, and fire equipment.
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The Secret to Building a Highly Profitable Business
The first business of any business is to make a profit. However, profit alone isn't enough. How a profit is made has far more to do with the ultimate success or failure of a business than the profit itself. In this article, you'll learn the secret to building a highly profitable business that'll last.
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International Shipping Tips
What is involved in shipping internationally? Each country has its own set of regulations with respect to what is allowed to enter the country. Read about the typical documentation required to get your package through customs.
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The Advantages of Hook Loop Fasteners
Hook-loop fasteners are a two-faced fastening system whereby one face is covered in tiny nylon fibers with little hooks on the ends of them, and the other face is covered in tiny nylon loops. When the two faces are pressed together, some of the hooks burrow in and catch onto the loops. The tighter the two faces are pressed together, the more catches that are formed.
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Auto Manufacturing Jobs and Ohio Economy
Ohio has had some bumpy economic rides in the past as the auto industry has taken hits from Japanese Imports, high steel prices, wars, recessions, NAFTA and now robotics. These issues have caused complete boom and bust cycles for the automobile manufacturing sector in Ohio. When workers are laid off, then those high paying and generally union jobs slow the money flows in the other sectors, such as retail, professional services, banking, real estate, etc.
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Over Regulation Stifles Free Thinking and Innovation
In modern corporations mostly due to the DotCom era, when corporations were seeing investors move to faster moving companies; we saw a paradigm shift in Corporate Management. Tom Peters and others saw this and started writing about it. These corporate management gurus were trying to tell us all along what Deming and others had noticed.
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Federal Trade Commission; over regulation, who does it help?
Why is the Federal Trade Commission harassing the Franchising Industry? Their new rulemaking ploy to gain notoriety and status is obviously another agency attempt to spotlight themselves in the media to look like they are doing something. This helps the FTC with keeping their large budget going and the tactics of PR and puffery are well known to those industries that are regulated by the FTC.
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Conference Call Etiquette - The Do's and Don'ts of Multi-Way Phone Conversations
The curse of every hard working manager. Love or hate them, with geographically dispersed teams and travel restrictions, conference calls are here to stay as a communication medium in the workplace. If you want to stand out from your work colleauges, then follow these simple do’s and don’ts of effective conference calls.
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Other People's Products Can Make You Rich
Although there are advantages to selling your own
proprietary products and services, there are also
drawbacks. For example, the time and investment
required to produce your own book, invention, or other
product could mean a long delay in receiving profits
and cashflow essential to your business survival.
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