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Samsung SCX-4500 Next month, Samsung’s sleek new design will hit the shelves at Apple retail stores nationwide. This printer is two-thirds the size of traditional laser printers and, with a seamless exterior, it keeps both style and functionality in mind. |
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ZINK Mobile Printer This digital camera features a built-in color printer. The seven-megapixel camera has a 3x optical zoom, and its on-the-go unit will produce full-color two-by-three inch prints—whenever and wherever you might need them. |
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Casio CW-100 Using direct thermal printing technology, the CW-100 provides an affordable way to produce professional CD labels. The titles can be created in one of five different colors (red, blue, green, silver or black) and can feature any font or graphic on your computer. |
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Dell 948 This new all-in-one printer is the only multifunctional inkjet in its class to offer standard duplexing (two-side printing)—something which can help save money and the environment. The four-in-one functionality includes scanning, copying, faxing and printing. |
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THE FLIPSIDE
Not only should managers be thinking outside the box, author Jane C. Linder suggests backwards and upside down thinking as well. This Harvard Business School professor and president of the Progress Board LLC, a consulting company that focuses on helping clients put good ideas to work, shares something that she discovered aft er more than 100 interviews with frontline managers.
In Spiral Up: And Other Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives (AMACOM Books; $25), Linder shows that extremely successful initiatives do not come about through conventional practice; rather, it is when step-by-step thinking and dayto-day management is thrown out the window that businesses really begin to develop. Here, Linder identifies five common characteristics that link the initiatives she studied.
REACH BEYOND YOUR GRASP
Rather than starting with small, achievable goals, managers of wildly successful initiatives imagine the way things should look, and then they figure out how to make it happen.
MAKE SPACE
Managers loosen the controls, make space to experiment and learn, and let the initiative grow and change in unpredictable, nonlinear ways.
GET IT RIGHT
They insist on finding the right solution to the toughest questions, never settling for one that is merely “good enough.”
ENERGIZE PEOPLE
Successful managers create an emotional intensity that draws people together, then manage that emotional field throughout the project to keep passions lit.
SPIRAL UP
Wildly successful initiatives are ongoing endeavors. They take patience and persistence. With each success, the initiative extends into new areas, and the scope evolves up and up.
NETWORKING SITES
THE CLOSING BELL
JACK GUINAN
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