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Companies concerned about their social and environmental impacts have a new tool for measuring and monitoring their activities.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has released its new Measuring Impact Framework, a guide for how to look at and assess impacts. The group worked its framework into an Excel-based guide, giving companies an outline for identifying, measuring and monitoring impacts.

The Framework includes four broad … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Plenty of motivational coaches pledge to boost your efficiency. These are the few who really deliver.

Content: Article | Author: Tom Ehrenfeld | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

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Here’s how finance executives abuse the most-useful of computer programs — and how to do better.

Content: Article | Authors: Richard Block, Shahid Ansari | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Productivity / Work Tips

Some of the top colleges and universities in the world provide free business administration courses online. Here is a list of the best sources.

Content: Article | Source: DegreeDirectory | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, MBA Related, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

This tool allows you to search the world of blogs by keyword, brand or topic to see who’s blogging about it and what they’re saying. The interface encourages you to compare one keyword vs. two more related keywords (or brands, if you are doing competitive research).

What is best about Trendpedia is that it graphs a timeline for you that shows the action of that keyword … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Attentio | Subjects: Productivity / Work Tips, Reference / Search

Book summaries can be a useful tool to time-starved souls who want to keep up with business thought, trends, concepts, etc. In the spirit of summarizing, here is a summary of the various book summary services along with some free resources.

UPDATED December 2015

Content: Member-Contributed Content | Author: Jeff Blum | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips, Products & Services

Enterprise software selection is a risky undertaking for any organization. Find out how you can reduce the risk with a best-practice approach to assessment, evaluation, and selection—and learn how to reduce the time and cost involved in choosing the right solution.

Content: Article | Author: Bill Carson | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Productivity / Work Tips, Products & Services | Industry: Software

Enterprise software selection is a risky undertaking. Even after you’ve determined your requirements, the crucial software assessment and negotiation phases are potential minefields. Find out how you can reduce the risk involved in choosing a solution that meets your needs.

Content: Article | Author: Bill Carson | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Productivity / Work Tips, Products & Services

To access the energy of the human spirit, people need to clarify priorities and establish accompanying rituals in three categories: doing what they do best and enjoy most at work; consciously allocating time and energy to the areas of their lives—work, family, health, service to others—they deem most important; and living their core values in their daily behaviors.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Catherine McCarthy, Tony Schwartz | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips, Time Management, Work

The idea behind Squeezed Books is to provide open access to business book summaries, and a collaborative environment where everyone can read summaries, write new ones, and talk about the books in question.

Content: Online Resource | Author: David Welton | Source: DedaSys | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Reference / Search

This excel template helps prospective business owners determine the best legal structure for their new business. Identifying the appropriate business structure can help owners gain tax and legal protection benefits for their business.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Microsoft | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

After posting “Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup” about the two years of actual costs of Redfin, many people asked for a generic version of the financial model that Redfin used to project costs. Here it is.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Source: How to Change the World | Subjects: Finance, Free Stuff / Tools

This article discusses and demonstrates the use of De Bono’s Six Hats Method as a powerful and creative approach for communication. Design your communication efforts (speeches, meetings, dialogs, posters, ads, etc.) according to this model and get your message through in an original yet clear and effective way.

Content: Article | Author: Amir Elion | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Productivity / Work Tips

Spreadsheet analysis is a very visual technique to help improve business operations and profitability. In this Editor’s Note Professor Rick Hesse discusses how far we’ve come in the 25 years since spreadsheets were introduced.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Hesse | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

Pam Slim provides a great list of things to do prior to making a presentation. If you make speeches, presentations, or pitches, read this.

Content: Article | Author: Pamela Slim | Source: Escape from Cubicle Nation | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips

Spreadsheet optimization is a great way to improve your decision making on a practical basis without having to use difficult or expensive software. Here we use the example of selecting a capital project to show how an optimization model built in Excel can arrive at the best decision using the Solver tool. This tutorial spreadsheet includes an annotated working model, as well as a customizable … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: BNET | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

Structured performance reviews allow managers to help employees recognize their strengths and weaknesses, and to provide direction in improving skills and performance. This evaluation form is designed to make it easier for managers to deliver the constructive feedback employees need. It provides a framework for developing an evaluation system, built on an assessment of five categories of performance: communication, interaction, productivity, quality concerns, and job … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: BNET | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Management

The National Venture Capital Association offers a set of model legal documents for venture capital investments put together by a group of leading venture capital attorneys. The model venture capital financing documents consist of:
* Term Sheet
* Stock Purchase Agreement
* Certificate of Incorporation
* Investor Rights Agreement
* Voting Agreement
* Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement
* Management Rights Letter
* … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Venture Capital