Business

While lunching with a co-worker last week, I recently heard a term that spurred some thought. The term he used was “Work Spouses” when talking about office dynamics.
Just to clarify for those of you going down this train of thought — the term does not refer to office romances. It refers to those office [...]

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Each issue of The Deal quickly brings you up to speed on current deals in every sector from all around the world. We cover the players — the people behind the deals [...]

According to the Department of Trade and Industry there are 4.5 million businesses in the UK of which 99.3% are small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), employing 0-49 employees. These comprise 58.9% of the total workforce of 24.4 million and account for 51.9% of the £2,600 billion UK turnover. Bruce Hallas, a specialist in information [...]

Meetings can be an expensive activity for a business when you begin to factor in the cost of time spent setting a meeting up, refreshments for participants, travel time and so on. A poorly planned meeting that does not accomplish any objectives is a waste of money for the business and a waste time for [...]

Many people have come to view meetings as time-wasters, and for good reason. Free food and beverages are often the only things that draw people to meetings and the only things they actually look forward to.
Why have people come to view meetings as such time-wasters during their day? Think back to some of the more [...]

Yesterday, I received an email from a company looking to do work for me. Items in quotes are directly from the email. Non-quoted items are my comments.
I apologize for intruding into your busy schedule. Please allow me to introduce ourselves.
Polite, but already off to a negative start. Says he is intruding. It might be better [...]

Technology offers many different ways for people to communicate. There is e-mail, instant messenger, video conferencing, telephone, and so on. However, sometimes there is no substitute for the traditional face-to-face meeting. Unfortunately though, so many people see this as being an inefficient means of communicating with all the electronic methods that are now available.
From my [...]

Starbucks originally served whole milk and didn’t offer other milk options until after receiving customer feedback rather than making the decision without customer influence due to dietary trends. Paul of Idea Sandbox patronized a local coffee shop that serves only whole milk and won’t change.
But that local coffee shop doesn’t have the disadvantage of having [...]