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7 Workplace Culture Dynamics That You Need to Support

Startup Professionals Musings

Studies have shown that work productivity is related to a happier work culture , and customer satisfaction and loyalty are also dependent on the culture. Move to modern platforms for more collaboration. Newer collaboration platforms, such as Zoom and the Cloud, are a step up from your legacy internal platform.

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8 Organizational Cultures Boost Output And Cut Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Trello. Virtually every collaboration platform and mainline business process today has a cloud-based deployment option. In the U.S.,

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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In 2014 , open-source platform Drupal moved to replace “master/slave” with “primary/replica.” . Meanwhile, Twitter began taking steps to replace those terms earlier this year and hopes to finish replacing that terminology by the end of 2021, according to CNET. . Then, in 2018, programming language Python ditched the racist terminology.

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6 Keys to Attracting Customers Based On Social Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, my dictate that entrepreneurs need to find a “ painful ” problem to solve (such as high cost, low productivity) to attract customers, doesn’t really account for many successful startup businesses today, including top social media platforms, dating sites, and new fashions. Highlight benevolence to customers and society.

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Origin wants to make accessible physical therapy women’s new normal

TechCrunch LA

“We had originally planned to spend more time with in person care and then actually launch our digital platform — telehealth — in 2021. ” It looks like a timely moment to build such a platform, with telehealth seeing a huge demand spike as a result of the coronavirus. “There’s a huge need.

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