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The Advantages of a Four Day Workweek

Tullio Siragusa

This has been the work culture since the end of the great depression, but today, with technological advancement, many companies have recognized a lesser need for an in the office workforce. Depression leads to $51 billion in costs due to absenteeism and $26 billion in treatment costs. US Energy Information Association.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

All this changed however, with the popularisation of the internet, and since then there have been hundreds of different companies which have sought to profit by facilitating communication using this network. One of the first companies to offer their own chat service was Yahoo, who launched Yahoo Pager in 1998. Picture Perfect?

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

Quinn & Cameron argued that organization can be defined by their cultures and introduced their Competencies Values Framework. Greiner discussed in his work Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow that all of the before are true, but change over time for a growing company. Larry Greiner (1989). Steve Blank (1995).

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

Qmarkets

Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias.

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

Qmarkets

Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias.

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Are Your New Hires Fitting In?

Michael Roberto

Joann Lublin reported yesterday in the Wall Street Journal about new research regarding cultural fit of new employees. million emails among 601 full-time staffers at a technology company written between 2009 and 2014. They hypothesized that language is a key element of culture at an organization.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”. alone during the initial ripples of the crisis, the economy lost more than 2.5 But don’t panic just yet.