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Andrew Conrad is a senior content writer at Capterra, covering business intelligence, retail, and construction, among other markets. As a seven-time award winner in the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. and Suburban Newspapers of America editorial contests, Andrew’s work has been featured in the Baltimore Sun and PSFK. He lives in Austin with his wife, son, and their rescue dog, Piper.
How to Run an Effective Meeting Schedule for Maximum Productivity
Published January 17, 2019
Anyone who has ever worked in an office knows how crippling it is to productivity to pull your team into a conference room every two hours to give status updates, go over an email that was already sent, or sing happy birthday to a co-worker.
3 Budget-Friendly Wave Alternatives for First-Time Small Business Accountants
Published January 10, 2019
If you're a small business accountant—or a small business leader forced into moonlighting as an accountant to keep your employees paid and the heat running—you've probably heard of Wave.
From Legos to Netflix: 3 Stories on the Importance of Effective Change Management
Published December 21, 2018
Change is hard. Change is good. Change can mean progress, improvement, growth. A lack of change, on the other hand, can mean stagnation. It can mean repeating the same mistakes, sitting still while others surge ahead, and finding yourself stuck in old ways just because it's what you've always done.
Answer These 8 Questions to Get a Free Team Productivity Report
Published December 11, 2018
If you're Cosmo Spacely and need to measure the productivity of one of your sprocket production teams, you have an easy task. All you have to do is figure out how many shippable sprockets the team produces in a given time period.
What Small Business Leaders Should Know About the Future of Accounting Technology
Published November 28, 2018
Almost half of the nearly 17% of small businesses in North America that don't currently use accounting software plan to adopt it within the next one to two years, according to our 2018 Top Technology Trends survey of more than 700 U.S. small and midsize business (SMB) leaders.
10 Best Fintech Podcasts You Can Learn From
Published November 5, 2018
UCLA neuroscientist Theodore Berger has developed a microchip that can be implanted in your brain to boost your memory. That may seem like the beginning of a science fiction story, but it's reality.
5 Workplace Communication Tips for Project Managers From the Apollo Missions
Published November 2, 2018
The manned Apollo missions (between 1968 and 1972) to land men on the moon and return them safely to earth remain among the most remarkable accomplishments in human history.
Gauge Your Workplace for Its Efficiency and Effectiveness Factor
Published October 18, 2018
When you look around your workplace, do you see an incubator of efficiency, built to encourage collaboration, productivity, and innovation all at once?
Cool Tech to Boost Your Employees' Effectiveness
Published September 14, 2018
Back when I was a newspaper reporter, gaining access to updated technology was a struggle. It wasn't until the late 2000s that we were outfitted with laptop computers so we could write and file stories without being tethered to our desks (which, it turns out, is pretty important for reporters).
The 5 Most Critical Elements for Measuring Employee Effectiveness
Published September 10, 2018
As a small business leader and project manager, you know that your employees are your most essential asset. They're more valuable than all of your software, computers, coffee machines, and cargo vans combined.
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