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The Wall Street Journal:
Game-changing ideas may abound at your workplace – in the minds of your employees. The hard part is figuring out how to tap into those ideas and make creativity part of the daily routine.
But regularly harnessing your staff’s brainpower can provide an important edge to small businesses competing against larger competitors with […]
Wired:
Long before the advent of the Web, evangelists were confident that cordless phones and faxes had already made the office a relic. “Working from home holds the promise of a new American dream,” Paul and Sarah Edwards gushed in their 1985 manifesto, Working From Home, in which they extolled the virtues of commuting from breakfast […]
Forbes:
Maryann, a home-based Web site administrator in Virginia, owns 11 computers: five desktop models in the formal office area, another in the basement, a laptop by her bed, another in the den, two more in the dining room and one in her purse.
“It’s a veritable showroom,” she says. Coming soon: a notebook for the sunroom.
It’s […]
Lifehacker:
Free service PrintWhatYouLike.com is a simple point-and-click element removal tool to make printing sites and pages without printer-friendly links much easier, and without any software.
Paste in the URL of a site, and you’ll get a left-hand sidebar that lets you click and and remove pictures, headlines, and other page elements. You can pull out the […]
When you take a look around your office, what do you see? There is a good chance you’ll find papers. Maybe even folders or a file cabinet. From students to business owners, everyone has paperwork and they need a way to keep it all organized!
Although they weren’t always known by this name, […]
The New York Times:
In 2000, Bobbi Reed moved from Denver to Sydney, Australia, for a month and ran a V.I.P. hospitality suite at the Summer Olympic Games.
Two years later, at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, she and her team hosted 1,100 telecommunication workers, handling their food, housing and transportation.
As head of her own […]
The Wall Street Journal:
Can’t tear yourself away from work for a vacation this summer? Consider bringing your business with you, says Jeff Zbar, who has spent the past six summers traveling the U.S. with his family, working on the road.
“A lot of people think they can’t take a vacation,” says Zbar, a free-lance writer from […]
The Wall Street Journal:
In late 2005, the night manager of a suburban Atlanta restaurant called owner J.D. Clockdale to boast about how well she had handled an irate female customer. The customer “ranted and raved” about a botched order, but calmed down after the manager gave her a free meal, Clockdale recalls being told.
The problem: […]
Worcester News:
A Worcester couple are hoping to escape unscathed when they enter the Dragons’ Den and pitch their innovative idea to some of the most successful businessmen in the country on national television.
Neil and Laura Westwood have already beaten thousands of other competitors to showcase their idea, Magic Whiteboard, on the popular BBC2 series in […]
BusinessWeek:
When Ilene Drexler was laid off as a corporate consultant in January 2004, she decided to launch a professional organizing business, The Organizing Wiz, out of her one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
But gaining the trust of potential customers was a challenge at first, in part because she wasn’t running her solo operation out […]
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