"The Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute report hopes to explain why only 1 in 2 small businesses will survive more than five years, according to Small Business Administration figures. The study - called Six Dimensions That Characterize Success-Oriented Small Business Owners - is based on analysis of a survey of 1,100 small businesses with between 2 and 99 employees. (The Institute is run by the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, and it conducts ongoing research on what it calls "the Index of What Matters Most" to small businesses.)
Top of the list for successful entrepreneurs is the ability to collaborate. Those who can delegate, build strong relationships with their management teams, employees, and others are more likely to click with customers."
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"GanttProject is a cross-platform desktop tool for project scheduling and management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX, it is free and its code is opensource. What can it do?
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Gantt chart.
Create work breakdown structure, draw dependencies, define milestones.
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Resources.
Assign human resources to work on tasks, see their allocation on the Resource Load chart.
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PERT chart.
Generate PERT chart from Gantt chart.
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Export.
Save charts as PNG images, generate PDF and HTML reports.
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Interoperate.
Import projects from and export them to Microsoft Project formats. Export to spreadsheets with CSV.
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Collaborate.
Share projects with your colleagues using WebDAV."