How to Protect Employees Who Drive for Work | business.com

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Learn how company driving policies help business owners protect their companies, their employees and everyone else on the road.

Putting in place best-practice safety measures is something that every business owner should give considerable attention to. While regularly reviewing and adapting needed changes to a business’s safety policies might not be at the top of the to-do list for many companies, failure to do so could result in serious injury and threaten a company’s future. This happens to be particularly true if your business requires its employees to regularly get behind the wheel.

How to Consistently Get a 50% Open Rate on Your Cold Emails | The Startup Magazine

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You don’t have to send thousands of cold emails to get just a handful of replies. Unless you’ve already mastered the craft of cold emailing, you’re probably not seeing over a 50% open rate. If that’s the case for you, I want to share three simple steps that will help you write emails that people actually open.

The entrepreneur stopping food waste | BBC News

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The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Mette Lykke, co-founder of fitness tracker Endomondo, and chief executive of food waste app, Too Good To Go.

For many people, leaving the stability of a well-paid job to join a start-up might seem daunting. For Danish entrepreneur Mette Lykke, it’s a leap she’s made not just once, but twice.

Back in 2007 she was working for management consultancy firm McKinsey, but decided it was time to change direction. “I was missing the feeling of having a real impact,” she says.

Reset Your Computer Once a Year for a Happier Life | WIRED

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Resetting your laptop is one of the most powerful munitions you’ve got in your troubleshooting armory. It puts your Windows, macOS, or Chrome OS computer back to the state it was in when you first got it home from the store, and that means you’ve got none of the clutter, or bugs, that may have built up in the time since.

Thankfully, the process is much easier than it used to be. Microsoft, Apple, and Google have put tools for the job right inside their operating systems, while applications have come to rely more and more on the cloud, so your important data is most likely already backed up somewhere online ready to be redownloaded.

Why Your Patent Is Probably Worthless | Entrepreneur

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Getting a patent issued typically costs at least $10,000 and can easily cost upwards of $20,000. Most inventors who patent their inventions hope to get their money back after their invention begins selling in the marketplace. In reality, it rarely works like that. A very high percentage of patents never recoup their filing costs. Put more bluntly: They never generate any income, let alone what it cost to get the patent in the first place.

I’ve been helping inventors commercialize their product ideas and inventions for the past two decades. One of the biggest complaints I hear from inventors is that their patents are basically worthless. These inventors are frustrated and deflated. They’re out of the game, because they’ve spent so much time and money on a single invention — an invention that will never produce them any revenue. They won’t, or can’t, try to bring another, better idea to market because they’ve wasted their resources.

7 Eleven Runs Trial For Futuristic Store | CoolBusinessIdeas.com

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Convenience stores that rely on technology instead of cashiers to keep things ticking over might sound like a futuristic notion, but there are a number of such concepts being tested around the world. 7-Eleven is the latest to enter the fray, today announcing a trial of a new store in Texas that will be unstaffed with customers left to their own devices.

The store is located at 7-Eleven’s headquarters in Irving, Texas, and will be available only to the company’s employees, with a view to rolling it out to the general public if things go well.

Keeping Time: Leap Years and the Gregorian Calendar | Live Science

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The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used by most of the world. Also called the “Christian calendar” or “Western calendar,” it is internationally accepted as a civil calendar by all but a handful of countries. The Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582 primarily to fix errors in the Julian calendar mostly having to do with leap years.

In the Julian calendar, named after Julius Caesar, every fourth year had 366 days rather than 365. Roman astronomers calculated that a year — the time it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun — had a duration of 365.25 days. This method of adding a “leap day” every fourth year averaged out to this determined value.

If You Listen, Your Employees Will Step Up | Business News Daily

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The best way to make your employees feel important and valued is to listen to them.

Incorporating an employee listening strategy is a great first step to making your employees feel important.

Once you incorporate this strategy, you have to make real changes to the culture of the company.

11 Ways to Handle Stress Wisely | Life Hack

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As the number one killer of men and women, stress is the root cause of many diseases, from cancer to heart disease. Left unaddressed, stress has a crushing force that, over time, can lead to ugly repercussions. From frequent headaches to regular fatigue, symptoms will come pouring in if you don’t learn how to handle stress wisely.

We can’t always prevent or avoid stress, but how you conduct your lifestyle can radically reduce it. Instead of viewing every problem as a massive explosive strapped to your body, it’s worth it to slow your thoughts down and recognize that nobody is a superhuman.