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Best Practices for Leading an 'A Team' You don't have to be the smartest person in the room to become an effective team leader. But you do need to know how to bring out the best in all the individuals on your team, so the resulting "whole" brings greater value to your organization than...
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How to Build a Workplace of Trust When does a spirit of relatively harmless snarky humor give way to morale-crushing cynicism? It's a fine line, and one that an organization and its employees should never cross because cynicism can tear away at a key quality of any successful...
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Surprising Predictions About Internet Traffic Thanks to an insatiable worldwide demand for connectivity, Internet traffic will soar to staggering levels over the next several years, according to recent research from Cisco. The resulting report, "Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Forecast and...
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Why Business Meetings Waste So Much Time In today's business environment, we've pretty much killed the concept of a regular 9-to-5 workday and have debunked the perception that you can be productive only when you're in the office. And the once-ubiquitous position of secretary is now a...
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How to Deal With Email When You're on Vacation Remember when a vacation was really a vacation—a time when people completely disconnected from work and allowed themselves to recharge? Well, those days are clearly over. In fact, three out of five employees said they do at least some work...
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Business-Led Tech Spending Drives Innovation As the roles of IT and business continue to blur, it's inevitable that an increasing share of technology spending is now overseen by non-tech managers. But there's a bright side to this trend: It's paving the way for more innovation, according to a...
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The Goal of Thwarting Fraud at the World Cup The 2014 FIFA World Cup is putting the spotlight on the growing problem of financial fraud, and it's very difficult to prevent fraud with current technology.
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Cracking the Code for Developer 2.0 Old-school coders who focused on writing bug-free C++ or Java are taking a back seat to those who have a strategic understanding of programming and business.
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Perceptive Tech Perspectives From Ten Top CIOs If you had the chance to have a conversation with one of the world's top CIOs, you'd probably leap at the opportunity, right? Well, Baseline can't give you that, but we can provide the following insights from not one, but 10 top CIOs of technology...
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The Pros and Cons of Working in an Office Is an office job a blessing or a grind? Judging by recent survey results from CareerBuilder, it looks like both descriptions apply. Like most office workers, many IT professionals can't avoid the daily confines of life in a cubicle. However,...
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