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Choosing Forklifts for Your Business: What you Need to Know

Forklift trucks can be used for a wide range of essential tasks, and having access to vehicles like this might help dramatically improve efficiency within your firm. However, if you’ve not chosen these trucks before for your business, you might struggle to know which ones to go for. To make your life a little easier, here are some of the most important factors you’ll need to consider when you’re making your selection.   Fuel Forklifts can be powered by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), diesel or electricity, and each of these fuels has its advantages and disadvantages. It’s important to get…

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How to Cut Office Overheads and Still Have a Prestigious Office

Ever imagined your office operating out of a plush Macquarie Place address, handling meetings like a pro and managing your team of hundred with ease and aplomb? While your business might not quite be at the stage of multi-level hires and exciting expansion it doesn’t mean that you have to give up the dream of a glorious Sydney business address. The costs of running a business are nothing to be sneezed at, and if you ask any business owner they will tell you that their two biggest costs are staffing and their office space. Staff is something that you kinda…

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Top 4 Advantages of Having a Business Website

When you start your own business, make sure you also set up a website. This is essential for every business who wants to target a wider market. This also helps you reach out to people traditional marketing usually can’t reach and also generate brand awareness. You need to take advantage of the online world to keep your business growing. As a business owner of any kind of enterprise, it is crucial that you build your own online presence. If you want your business to thrive, then you must create a website for your company. In fact, a website is a…

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How Can Board Portals Save You Time and Money?

Meetings are a pain. You thought that it would be easy, that it would stick to your schedule. But someone called you up and said that the place you booked two days ago just closed down. You tried to reschedule, you calmly told yourself that it’s just a minor setback. On your second attempt, you realized that the attendees weren’t properly informed about the meeting so you ended up explaining the agenda of proceeding with the meeting. Those are just two of the many scenarios that may happen when planning a meeting – not to mention all the problems that…

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The Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Blog  

In case you didn’t know, blogs (a term that is a contraction of weblogs) first became popular during the 1990s when people started to write online articles about their favorite topics, such as traveling, food, sports, health, business, fashion and lifestyle choices. Since then blogging has gone from strength to strength. In fact, pick any subject at all and you’ll most likely find somebody, somewhere is blogging about it. If you like the idea of communicating information, knowledge, inspiration or skills, or even if you just want to entertain folk and make new friends, here are a few tips to…

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Karen Phillips About The Work Done At Phillips Charitable Organization

There are many different charitable organizations around the world. The Phillips Charitable Organization is one of them. It is a foundation that is really interesting and that did manage to help many people in the past few years. Karen, the wife of Charles Phillips, Infor’s CEO, talk to us a little about the work that is done and about the Phillips Charitable Organization. Here is what we found out. The Phillips Organization (full name Karen And Charles Phillips Charitable Organization) is basically a 501(c) non-profit business created in order to offer as much financial aid as possible for the disadvantaged…

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Why Do So Many Business Leaders Fail?

It is interesting to notice the fact that most of the successful business leaders of today were faced with some sort of failure in the past. That is something that became quite common in business. As an example, previously president of Oracle, Charles Phillips is now Infor’s CEO. When he led Oracle, he did many great moves but he did have problems, mainly caused by others. He learned from that even if it was not a failure. He treated it as such and when he became CEO of Infor many changes were made. This led towards the huge growth that…

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Why Is Online Reputation Management Difficult?

The truth is that online reputation management is not at all difficult these days. However, most people from around the world lack the necessary knowledge to make the correct steps when they are needed. The truth is that the main reason why online reputation management is difficult is the lack of knowledge about what online reputation management actually means. In order to better highlight the topic, let us think about some of the misconceptions that appear and discuss different reasons that people highlight when referring to the difficulty associated with online reputation management. That should put you on the right…

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Three Things That Tell You Your Work Life Balance Is Out of Balance

There are a number of things that are indicative of having a poor work life balance. For Charles Phillips, Infor CEO,’s wife Karen, these things were all evident in her husband. She decided that he was ready for a change, and she became more involved in his work, while also showing him the importance of family time. She got through to him, and Phillips is now a role model for not just his staff, but also other CEOs and executives the world over. He spends time with his family, talks about his family, and expects the same of his staff.…

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Understanding the Role of a CEO

CEOs are very important people, but few people truly know what they do. This is due to a variety of reasons. Firstly, CEOs are often too busy to sit down and talk about their job. Secondly, they have so much to do that they would need to write an encyclopedia to write it all down. Thirdly, it all depends on what company they are CEO of. Finally, their personal leadership style makes the role vary. Take, for instance, Infor CEO Charles Phillips, who will do very different things than Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, for instance. That said, there are a…

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