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• Negotiating commercial leases: Buying a business?

  Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield Retail

  For many commercial tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While an entrepreneur focuses on marketing and managing, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized salespeople. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate. Whether you are leasing a new location for the first time or negotiating a lease renewal for your business, here are two money-saving tips.

• How leaders can find a ‘work spouse’

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Work spouses have been proven to further success, productivity and fun on the job. Having a colleague with whom you can joke, commiserate and confide with can make or break long days or rough quarters. However, the success of the work spouse relationship is based on the understanding that the two of you are equals. So how do leaders reap the benefits of work spouses when their options for befriending equals are nonexistent or extremely limited?

• Negative pressure wound therapy for lower leg fractures might be ineffective

  Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Compared with standard dressings, negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) does not improve 12-month outcomes in patients with open leg fractures, according to a new study published in JAMA. Since they break the skin, open fractures have a higher risk of healing-related complications. Infection rates can be as high as 27 percent in severe open leg fractures, for example. NPWT is a new type of postoperative dressing that creates a vacuum, removing the blood and fluid accumulating inside a wound.

• New ways to become a more inspirational leader

  Lisa Mulcahy Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Every manager's goal is to spur his or her team members to do their very best work — and a truly great leader does this through example. The best way to do it? Understand which attributes make a leader truly inspirational, and cultivate these positive traits within yourself. To make this task easier, use the following research-based tips for strengthening your leadership abilities easily and effectively.

• How food choices impact the environment

  Bambi Majumdar Food & Beverage

  There is a growing, worldwide consensus focused on reducing the use of nonrecyclable materials for environmental purposes. A new study conducted by a Swiss research institute and Oxford University says that our food choices can help, too. The researchers calculated the impacts of foods around the globe, and studied the food production chain from the farm to the fork. This extensive study found that switching to a plant-based diet will not only have positive health impacts, but could have a significant impact on the climate as well.

• Creating noise oases in open-plan workspaces

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  Sound masking systems, sound-absorbing ceiling tiles and panels, and enclosed pods are just some of the ways designers have attempted to combat the high levels of noise that plague open-plan workspaces. For their part, employees have resorted to wearing headphones or using white noise machines to block out unwanted ambient sound. None of these strategies has proven to be wholly effective. New technologies, however, may offer a more satisfactory solution.

• Is your board getting bogged down? Take back control

  William D. Pawlucy Association Management

  Your board meeting is stuck and your three-hour agenda is in jeopardy. What do you do? Rather than allow panic to set in, take a deep breath and refocus. Keeping a board on track during a meeting is an art form, and even the best facilitator sometimes needs other tools to control a board that has gone "off the rails." Here are five tips that can help you get your board meeting back on track.

• The effects of loneliness on our hearts

  Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  It is well-known that our hearts often respond to our emotional state. For example, broken heart syndrome, also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is a recently recognized heart problem. Symptoms of broken heart syndrome can look like those of a heart attack. But a broken heart may not be the only emotional stressor that affects our hearts. Loneliness may also be bad for the heart and may even lead to premature death.

• AR-15 ‘overpenetration’ only exists if you do this wrong

  Mike Ox Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  Today, we’re going to talk about one of the biggest misconceptions that people have about the AR-15. To be fair, they get this misconception honestly. They’re repeated ad nauseam at gun ranges, in articles, blogs, forums, videos, and even on TV without proper context. To complicate matters even more, there’s an element of truth to it. What is this myth? "I think ARs are bad for home defense because of overpenetration. I don’t want to shoot my neighbors or kids in another part of the house."

• More big brands join the war on plastic

  Scott E. Rupp Waste Management & Environmental

  The effort against single-use plastic straws has officially become more than a skirmish and is now an all-out war, as several more major brands have decided to do away with them in their businesses. SeaWorld Entertainment, in an effort to protect the environment, has removed all single-use straws and plastic bags from the company’s 12 theme parks. The Orlando-based company made the announcement June 8. SeaWorld, while leading in this effort, is not alone.

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