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How to Partner with a Rival for a Win-Win

Success

This helped to create an industry standard, improve online security and collectively gain market share against Apple’s iOS. Joseph Marshall, president of Signal 88 Security, partnered with similar local competitors to submit a joint proposal to provide security services for the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

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4 Ways to Optimize Your Pre-Registration Process

The Receptionist

For example, if you send an invoice to insurance, you can start the process of verifying insurance coverage via the pre-registration information. Or, in another example, you can use pre-registration details to verify a visitor’s security clearance status.

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Labor Day is the time to call for employee ownership and better worker protections

Work Life

Independent workers like ride-share drivers , who are often misclassified and lack worker protections, shoulder the costs of doing their jobs, like buying, maintaining, and insuring a vehicle. Workers in ESOPs enjoy higher job security and stability because employee-owned companies are resilient to downtowns.

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Lessons on work-life balance from Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and others

Work Life

While I now work from home for a digital media insurance company so I don’t have a commute, I’ve tweaked his trick and turn off work when I turn off my computer at the end of the work day. He developed what we now know as the 40-hour workweek and the very first manufacturing assembly line.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

She worked on her idea at night and on weekends, often skipping dinners, parties and other fun events to research patents and visit clothing manufacturers. I told the manufacturer owners. When the inaugural batch of Spanx arrived from the manufacturer, Blakely sent some to Winfrey, whose stylist suggested she try them on.

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The challenge for fit-out firms is to deliver best value despite supply chain challenges

Workplace Insight

Pressure on wages and labour has resulted in fit-out tender price rises of 4-5 percent and the challenge now pivots to manufacturing and fabrication. The insurances and bond market has progressively become more cautious; high value and amended bonds will be difficult to procure and the cost of insurance will inevitably creep.

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An Admin’s Cheat Sheet to Business Terminology

All Things Admin Blog

I supported three actuaries who were developing annuity and insurance products for banks. Thankfully, the company I worked for provided an employee training certification course that introduced all of the principles of insurance, and made sure we could all speak and understand the language. It was truly like learning another language.