Mark Zuckerberg is just 31 years old and has already massed a worth of $35 billion. He built Facebook from the ground up, and the company now employs over 9,000 people. While this is actually a small number for the size company Facebook is, that is an impressive climb to make in merely eleven years. […]
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It’s easy to get confined by our own biases and internal thoughts, and every so often it’s a good idea to have our ideas challenged, preferably by people much more intelligent than ourselves. TED Talks is the perfect place to expand your mind and challenge the way you think. The brightest people of our generation
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Using FM software has many advantages; the most obvious being its ability to augment managements’ metrics gathering and decision-making processes. Space management, asset or inventory tracking, service request processing and office moves are just some of the areas in which managerial processes can be improved. Furthermore, the ability to connect with and to your workforce
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The first coworking space in the U.S. was introduced in 2005 by Spiral Muse (now known as Hat Factory) programmer Brad Neuberg. In an effort to foster workspace health and support a more social business culture, Neuberg offered a “home for well-being,” which included up to eight desks two days a week, free Wi-Fi, and
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Work ethic varies tremendously from generation to generation. Understanding these differences and WHY they have come to the conclusion they have about their profession will help equip you with the tools you need in approaching each.
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Job interviews can be some of the more stressful tasks in the business world. You are often facing a panel of professionals who are judging your past successes (and failures) and are deciding if you are the right fit for their company. You have to, therefore, sell yourself without seeming like you are bragging or
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Not all facilities management tools are created equally. Some are packed with features and functions, but are hard to navigate or difficult to learn how to use. Other tools are easy and intuitive to operate, but lack key functionality that makes the software useful to the organization and to the facilities management team. How is
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With so many intangibles to manage on a daily basis, managers of facility management teams and other “bosses” can overlook one of the most critical factors to an organization’s success; the people. Your team is your support, your ways and means and sometimes your reputation. A good facility management team operates cooperatively, keeps the overarching
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Before you can identify new ideas in facilities management to motivate your team, you have to first ask–what makes you want to do something? Is it going to be enjoyable, maybe fun? Hopefully fun. More than likely, it’s also something of your choosing and involves being able to relax your mind and let go of
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Whether this is your first month on the job or you’ve been a part of the Facilities Management profession for twenty years, there are certain skills every great facilities management leader must posses when aspiring to lead their organization to the top. Recognizing you do not have all the answers, asking the right questions, and
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