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According to Opinion Research, what annoys employees more than anything else is poor communication. And unhappy employees can do more damage to your business than you might imagine.  More...
Though most managers understand intellectually that time is their scarcest resource, few make the effort to gain a strategic perspective on how they spend their hours each week. Still fewer make a regular practice of keeping track of how the priorities they say are most important jibe with the way they actually spend their time. “Those we label na  More...
The Small Business Administration on Tuesday announced that it has chosen 11 cities to participate in an initiative designed to stimulate jobs and growth while targeting inner-city small businesses.  More...
Online job boards and newspaper classifieds suffered declines in advertising for help, making it essential that small businesses find new ways to reach the people they want to recruit.  More...
Optimism among small-business owners fell last month to a 17-year low as companies said they expect business conditions to worsen in the next six months.

The National Federation of Independent Business confidence index declined 2.8 percentage points to 91.8, according to the Washington-based group. Eight of the 10 components making up the meas  More...