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Business Tax Deductions

Business Tax Deductions by: Richard A. Chapo As we enter mid-March, taxpayers begin to become very interested in deductions. Following are a few that you may be entitled to claim. Deductible Expenses Office expenses Rent or lease payments ...

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How Managers Can Help Retain Their Best Employees

How Managers Can Help Retain Their Best Employees by: Susan Cullen A major problem for employers today is attracting the best talent, and then retaining key employees. Research shows that the key ingredient for retention lies within the managerâ...

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Making Transitions

Making Transitions by: Robert F. AbbottEver notice how smoothly some speakers or writers move you through their speech or memo? It seems they effortlessly take you from start to finish without making you strain to follow.Yet, while the reading m...

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How to Patent Your Invention

How to Patent Your Invention by: Neil Armand A patent is a government granted right that allows the inventor to exclude anyone else from making, using or selling the invention in the country that issued the patent. The government grants this rig...

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Making Your Workers Your Partners

ng Your Workers Your Partners by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. There is an inherent conflict between owners and managers of companies. The former want, for instance, to minimize costs - the latter to draw huge salaries as long as they are in power (who kno...

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What The Buddha Says About Coaches

There is a Buddhist saying that goes like this: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill it." This means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.To kill the Buddha is to BE the Buddha. Any concept we can have of the Buddha ...

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Progress Reviews Your Key To Effective Coaching

One of the most effective ways to help your staff succeed is to provide regular, consistent coaching throughout the year. A Progress Review is a specific kind of coaching discussion, tied to the employee’s Annual Objectives and Standards. It is an ...

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The Measure of Success

Head2Head< itle>Send this article to a friendView original HTML versionReceive Articles like this every second weekYou cannot manage well what you do not measure. If you want to break intothe ranks of world-class recruiting, you simply must collect a...

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Small Business Q & A SWOT Analysis Is No Magic 8 Ball

Q: A key investor in my business has suggested that I hire a consultant to do a SWOT Analysis to help plan for the future. I try not to argue with my investors, but I'm not so sure I need to have this done. What do you think? Laurie B.A: Laurie,...

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Don't Call it an E-book!

Terminology greatly affects how people perceive value. Call something a "brochure" and no one will want to pay for it. Call it a "booklet" and it sounds small and insignificant, perhaps worth up to four or five dollars. Call your digital document an ...

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