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One of the biggest hazards of remote teams is that information isn’t distributed evenly. That person in the Dallas office knows the answer to the question the person in Bangalore is asking but the questions don’t get asked for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes this is the result of bad team dynamics, but it happens on even the most highly-functioning teams. Here are some scientific reasons why.

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Clarence, the most famous movie angel ever, helped George Bailey save his bank in It’s a Wonderful Life. Turns out angels continue to help small-business people to this day.

In a new Harvard Business School working paper with a rather formidable title, The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis, researchers demonstrate that companies that receive angel financing are more likely to survive and thrive than those… Read the rest

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ABC’s Sunday-morning news program, “This Week,” recently added an online fact-checking feature. Public figures apparently felt free to come onto the program and say things that were demonstrably false. What a surprise-politicians dissembling! But what’s true for elected officials is unfortunately also true for many corporate leaders. In today’s world, many people seem to be unconcerned with the veracity of their statements and are able to lie… Read the rest

By Jim Edwards | May 19, 2010 VIA “http://www.BNET.com”

The fact that Todd Davis, the CEO of Lifelock, had his identity stolen 13 times after he published his social security number in ads that “guaranteed” his service could stop identity theft illustrates an old chestnut of the advertising world: Never make a selling proposition that can be answered in the negative.

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Have you ever had one of those days at work where at the end of it you just want to cry, get drunk, go home and bury yourself under a blanket, or all of the above? We all have those days. We’ve all committed some blunder that is really and truly only ours to own. The question is, what do you do about it?

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Do you want to make better decisions? If so, you may need an attitude adjustment,suggests ongoing research by Brigham Young professor Kent Crookston. Crookston was determined to create just three “ways of being” to help you shift your perspective when approaching tough choices. I recently spoke with him about the will to change, the disastrous effects of deciding while manic, and choosing to listen.

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This article is designed to introduce you to website promotion, getting visitors to come to your website. It gives you the basic information, which you can then explore through dozens of links to other resources, much of it entirely free. As one of our most popular articles, this was revised most recently on June 2, 2009.

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Before I started Skooba Design, my family owned The Saunders Group, a photographic equipment manufacturing company. In the 23 years that my father he owned the company, it grew from five employees to 500. My father’s secret was simple: Treat customers well, treat employees and suppliers well, and sell a good product. It sounds simple, but the dying art of customer service really does set a company apart.

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by Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu

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As soon as I heard that Betty White would be hosting SNL’s Mother’s Day show, I knew I had to tune in. Why, I’m not entirely sure, but I wasn’t alone. Sure, capitalizing on the viral Facebook movement to get White to host the show was a smart move, but SNL delivered on White’s “sizzle” and came away with their highest rated show in 18 months.

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