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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

Success

In 1979, married lawyers Tim and Nina Zagatwho who dined out as a hobby, decided to poll their friends on restaurant recommendations rather than rely on just a few opinions from critics. While its print guidebooks and the company itself have evolved, at its height in 2005 the Zagat Survey included 70 cities and reviews from 250,000 diners.

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The GAO Finds Twice as Many Self-Employed as the BLS

Small Business Labs

workforce is contingent, up from 30% in 2005.  Self-employed workers such as shop and restaurant owners, etc. According to a recently released report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 40% of the U.S. The GAO includes the following in their definition: Agency temps: (1.3%). Contract company workers (3.0%).

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Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” | Driving Collaboration: How Coworking Spaces Foster Connections in Work Communities

Allwork

But the official start of the coworking as a movement was in 2005 in San Francisco. And it’s been building, not slowly, but it’s been building steadily and in recent years, more rapidly, ever since that first coworking space back in 2005. And then there was another initiative in Vienna that started back in 2003.

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Seven reasons why your boss should use a chauffeur service

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve had many managers that have used their private car for meetings, either picking clients up on the way to restaurants or the meeting venue. For example they can recommend good restaurants, point out local landmarks, suggest a sight seeing route and generally help your manager get to grips with the area. Local knowledge.

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Manchester is now a major draw for office design firms

Workplace Insight

In 2005, one idea was to link up the North of England with high-speed rail as a way of shifting the balance of the whole country. Other commercial operations moved in, including banks, shops, restaurants and offices. Levelling up -whatever you take that to mean – would help all of this, but Manchester is doing it anyway.

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AZVAs Podcast 4: Professionalism In and Outside of the Office

Loosely Speaking

Tara and I took this episode’s theme to heart and made sure that portions of it were recorded in numerous locations: her office, my office, a local restaurant, and in Phoenix Arizona. (Scroll down to read more about our sponsor.). While we were out and about we had a terrific time and hope you’ll enjoy the varied locations, too.

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PWC's 2040 Industry Cluster Forecast

Small Business Labs

  Lafayette, CA, a small San Francisco suburb has created a restaurant cluster called  Restaurant Row.  Archives November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 More.

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