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Ten Ways to Boost Cash Flow as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Founded in 2003, BookkeepingDirect helps small consulting firms achieve freedom from financial stress so they can do their best work. Schedule timeat least an hour a weekto do marketing and outreach related to business development, even when youre busy. Fundbox works on an as-needed basis with business-friendly flexibility.

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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. Did the 2003 Hartz reforms contribute to the recent decline in Germany long-term unemployment? With just 2.6

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Household Demographics 2003 vs. 2013: Spotlight on Age of Head of Household

MishTalk

Here''s a look at some interesting demographics, comparing 2003 vs. 2013. Number of Households by Age of Head of Household 2013 vs. 2003 The next chart shows the change in number (in thousands), in the age of the head of household. The data is from the Census Department 213-page PDF 2013 Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement.

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Rule of Thumb #2: Use Behavioral Lenses to Innovate and Adapt to Changes

Steve Shu Consulting

2009; Johnson and Goldstein, 2003; Johnson et al., 5649 (2003): 1338-1339. ” Marketing Letters 23, no. Let’s take just one of five behavioral angles I cover at Cornell in my applied behavioral economics courses, namely choice architecture. What if people don’t accept defaults? Johnson, Eric J., and Daniel Goldstein.

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Do Most Companies Even Try to Innovate Anymore?

Harvard Business

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. billion euro.

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Trends in Full-Time Employment vs. Civilian Non-Institutional Population

MishTalk

Total NonFarm Employment 2003-2014 Full-Time Employment 2003-2014 Full-time employment was 121,875,000 right at the onset of the recession in November 2007. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Today full-time employment is 118,204,000.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently?