Archive for January, 2010

Productive Networking

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

As part of the ongoing More Than a Few Words podcast, Indianapolis small business leader Lorraine Ball sat down with our own Robby Slaughter to talk about productivity and business networking.

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The Three Dollar Bargain

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

The Methodology Blog has covered the topic of disrupted travel due to faulty processes on several occasions; however, nothing so far can compare to the bungle made just last week by China Eastern Airlines.

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Process Improvement Failure

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Millions of companies have pursued major business process improvement projects. Some new evidence reported in the Wall Street Journal, however, shows that most of these endeavors fail.

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Favoritism and Borders

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

It’s never easy avoiding favoritism; particularly when it involves a large amount of business with large sums of money. Yet, as Borders bookstore now knows, ignoring or delaying others can lead to more than just annoyed clients.

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Productivity Techniques for Real Estate

Monday, January 25th, 2010

As part of Real Estate Bar Camp Indiana (RE BarCamp), Slaughter Development presented a session on time management for real estate professionals.

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18 Cool Tools

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

The folks at Mashable, the “world’s largest social media company,” have a new list of productivity tools. You probably didn’t know that the web has radical new ways to conduct old fashioned tasks like managing your to-do list, taking notes or gathering information.

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Arrested For Tweeting

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Twitter, as we very well know, is one of the fastest growing avenues of social media today. And although it only allows up to 140 characters, it’s still large enough for trouble—regardless of the intentions.

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I Can’t, I’m Cooking

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

At Slaughter Development, we’re always fascinated by the way people organize their work and prioritize tasks. Recently, we learned that one non-profit had assigned culinary duties.
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Self-Control is Contagious!

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Trying to stay focused at work? Want to avoid eating that extra piece of cake? Science now says: try thinking about people with better self-control than you.

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Electronic Emotions: The Sarcasm Button

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Nowadays, email exchange is a dominant form of both personal and business communication. In fact, it’s so commonplace that now there is a special feature that helps avoid one of it’s biggest blunders: the misinterpretation of words.  Read on »

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