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Gamification For Better Project Management

YoungUpstarts

Gamification works to foster employee engagement by granting rewards and recognition through scoreboards, leaderboards and other game props. Common challenges in project management include delivering projects within set deadlines, keeping the project quality high, working efficiently under stress and managing the behavior of employees.

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Tips For Emerging Young Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

In my companies we thrive on the entrepreneurial spirit in our young employees, and consider mentoring them is key to their personal and professional growth, as well as that of our companies – so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to write this guest post. Be curious and adventurous: think like The North Face.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees. I wasn’t surprised.

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Which One Single Quality Helped Me To Become A Better Leader

YoungUpstarts

Thankfully, I experienced a major turning point on 11th of March 2015 when the great leader and motivational speaker, Brian Tracy, paid a visit to Sofia, Bulgaria in order to give a full day practical seminar on leadership. When the seminar came to an end, we queued on a line to buy Brian’s books and also to get his autograph.

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Potent Entrepreneurial Skills: Necessary to Triumph Challenges and Prevail

The Startup Magazine

Set time limits for yourself and your employees, ensure that work is submitted before the deadline, assign work and keep track of it, make a to-do list, and use contemporary time management technologies. As an entrepreneur, you have a lot on your plate. You will be in turmoil if you cannot manage your time. Technical Know-How.

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Why Experimental Learning Is Becoming Popular For Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

For business owners, this is an excellent way to give employees a chance to hone their skills. They don’t just learn by sitting in seminars and reading through books. It also allows them to practice effective measures in going about with their job, which also results in better productivity for employees. Do you end there?

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

And engaging customers in such ways is generally much less expensive than hiring costly employees or agencies. The firm started putting on live seminars around the world, attended by many of those passionate customers, and unleashed Yoshida with his own blog. But it does require some new thinking.

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