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Change Or Die By Alan Deutschman
If you were given the choice to change or die – to make meaningful and enduring shifts in the way you think, feel and act, or pass away much sooner than you were meant to – would you be able to survive? According to Fast Company senior writer Alan Deutschman, the answer is probably no. But in his book, Change Or Die, Deutschman outlines how exactly to go about transforming our outlook and the way we interact with the world on a fundamental level.
April 2018 This newsletter is provided by Steve Arndt, president of Silver Linings Technology.
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Don’t Ever Let Your IT Company Do This To Your Computer Network Today, when companies need to be lean, nimble and brutally efficient to survive in a competitive marketplace, cutting unnecessary costs is paramount. Unfortunately, it can be easy when you’re on a tight budget to accidentally strip away components of your business that may seem gratuitous but are actually essential to your success. One of the first things that often ends up on the chopping block in the frenzy to save money is IT. Instead of continually investing in managed IT services, where professionals carefully maintain, protect and update your network month to month,
some businesses decide that the best way to keep their technology running smoothly is to simply leave it alone, calling up a professional only when something breaks down. Of course, this approach forgoes monthly costs and shaves off a fair few dollars from your technology budget in the short term. But while this approach may seem cost-effective, it opens up your business to a huge variety of technological crises, from expensive network outages to cyberattacks that may cripple the very future of your company. continued on page 2
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