People and Teams
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Three Great Travel Gadgets for Techie Road WarriorsAre you a road warrior or simply someone who wants to get work done while traveling? Eric Bloom highlights three travel gadgets that will allow you to maximize your work productivity—and make life easier—when you're on the road. | 
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Five Lessons to Help You Be a Better Team CoachVenkatesh Krishnamurthy shares his recent experience in joining a fitness program assisted by a personal trainer and how that relates to good team coaching. While the program benefited Venkatesh, he writes that his physical change occurred only with willingness and collaboration, not with force. | 
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Technology Trendsetters: Are They Start-Ups or Established Companies?At the end of each calendar year, the typical ritual in the technology world is to look back at which technologies did well in the past year and what the upcoming trends are. Who is setting the trends—the start-ups or the more established software makers? | 
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Change Where You Sit: It Can Change Your Work for the BetterIt can be difficult to understand a customer's priorities, to empathize with a coworker's challenges, or to climb out of a creative slump. But one thing could improve each of those problems: changing where you sit. Swapping roles or even just swapping desks can help you gain new insight at work. | 
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Optimism Bias: What It Means for You and Your BusinessThe idea behind the optimism bias is that people estimate their odds of a positive outcome as higher than average but their odds of a negative outcome as lower than average. This can be dangerous when forecasting the outcomes of risky projects. Learn to temper your optimism to avoid miscalculations. |
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Three Things to Consider When Planning a MeetingMeetings can be either a welcomed lifeline for those working on a project or a pitfall of desolation for project productivity. Consider these three things to ensure your meetings will contribute to your company's project success. | 
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Is There a Sense of Urgency in Your Workplace?Anuj Magazine looks at how a sense of urgency impacts the workplace and answers two questions: What happens when a sense of urgency is lacking? How do you inculcate a sense of urgency in your workers? | 
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What's Up with Black Friday and Big DataAs a veteran of quite a few Black Friday forays into the abyss, Joe Townsend had to wonder what role big data is playing in this annual ritual. Here, he examines the role big data is playing in Black Friday—and, now, Black Thursday (Thanksgiving Day)—sales. | 
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