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The Science of a Happy Startup

E – Engagement (flow, the sense of being lost in an activity) R – [Positive] Relationships (strong connections to others) M – Meaning (impact, a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves)

In IT, there's reality, and then there's whatever the boss/project lead/stakeholder wants. Today, we're hosting a community discussion about what you, the IT guru, think is the single most powerful change your department could adopt, short of replacing your end users with robots.

The single best change your IT department could make—what is it?

The Winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge: How They Are Reinventing Management - Polly LaBarre

by Polly LaBarre | 9:28 AM September 15, 2011 Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. In eight weeks we received 140 boldly original hacks and inspiring and instructive stories — and hundreds more thoughtful builds, comments, and questions as entries for the first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation We selected 20 stellar finalists, who spent the last few weeks pouring serious effort into further developing their entries.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/the_winners_of_the_management_1.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Evaluate-Teamwork-in-a-Business

Edit Edited by CBK, Flickety, Zareen, Tvvanavond and 3 others It's always important to be aware of how well your team works together.

How to Evaluate Teamwork in a Business

The Art of Asking Questions - Ron Ashkenas

by Ron Ashkenas | 1:39 PM August 30, 2011

http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/08/the-art-of-asking-questions.html

http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/remote-work-policy/

The Digital Careers Series is supported by Elance , the world’s leading site for online work. Check out Startup Cloud for tips on how to build a remote team.

4 Important Considerations for Creating a Remote Work Policy

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Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently.com , a marketplace for freelance journalists and brands-turned-publishers. Bounce rates are the bane of a blog's existence.

Content Strategy: 7 Tips to Make Your Blog Stickier

http://mashable.com/2011/09/16/blog-content-sticky/

5 Ways to Improve Your Landing Pages for Better Conversions

Google I/O 2010 - SEO site advice from the experts

Google is announcing today that websites that are optimized for mobile will now factor into ad quality. The company says that last year it began to limit ad serving on smartphone devices if they pointed to landing pages with Flash-heavy content, in order to improve the experience for users.