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Here’s our office technology story. What’s yours?
Story is the best way to show people your journey, whilst detailing your why… Our story started 20 years ago when we opened a retail store selling printer cartridge refills. Yes even 20 years ago we were promoting sustainability and being environmentally friendly. Loads has happened since then: ✔  We opened a network of cartridge
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Why you need to steer away from Cowboys?
With the economic market getting tougher, organisations will be looking to cut back on unnecessary expenditure, especially with suppliers whose services have increased in price without you realising. Office technology solutions is a sector notorious for cowboy suppliers who tie people into long term contracts, and who hit them with stealth price increases over time.
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How Xerox broke the glass ceiling twice?
Ursula Burns shattered two glass ceilings in 2009… Burns is the first black female to hold the position of CEO in a Fortune 500 company and became the first women to succeed another when she replaced Anne Mulcahy as CEO of the Xerox Corporation. ‘Where You Are is Not Who You Are’ is Burns memoir,
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How to create a winning CSR program?
At MY Total Office Solutions, we look for innovative ways to support our local communities… And the biggest impact we can make within our communities is through charities, as charities are right at the top of the pyramid when it comes to supporting the people around us. Yes, we’re a small business and we don’t
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Charities to benefit through business CSR program
We’ve been thinking how we could help our communities through local charities… In our office technology and supplies business, we’ve created a charity based CSR program which connects local companies to charities without the need for companies to donate extra cash or goods. How it works: The charity refers companies to us for their office
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Office technology company plants more trees
May and June saw 22 additional trees planted in our quest to help reverse climate change and deforestation. We plant a tree for each new office technology agreement, which then forms part of our customers corporate social responsibility program (CSR), with a certificate to prove the planting. Yes, we really do plant the trees, it’s
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Why excellence wins?
A legend and leader in the hotel world, Horst Schulze has reshaped the concepts of service and hospitality across the globe… Initially Schulze worked for both Hilton Hotels and Hyatt Hotels Corporation before becoming one of the founding members of The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company in 1983. At Ritz Carlton Schulze created the operating and
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Why this is the most amazing true story?
Have you heard of Siggi Wilzig? If you haven’t, you need to understand his story, what a remarkable person. Wilzig and his family were deported to one of the darkest places in the world, Auschwitz. As a teenager he watched on as his family were murdered or died of illness around him, whilst witnessing unbelievable
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Are you surrounded by idiots ?
Are you a red, blue, yellow, or Green? No. I’m not talking about football or M&M’s. I’m taking about humans. More specifically human behaviour, and how to understand those who cannot be understood. Those a little older (like me) will remember disc profiling (developed in 1928 by psychologist William Moulton). But I don’t know about
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Why it’s not just fun to wear Versace ?
Nobody would ever in a million years call me a style icon… So, why have I just spent the last week reading ‘House of Versace’ by Deborah Ball? Initially it was to understand and learn how the Versace brand was built, nearly disappeared, and then rose again from the ashes. What I didn’t expect was
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Could you be a happy sexy millionaire?
When Steven Bartlett first appeared on Dragons Den, I wanted to know his story… Not the bit about him being a multi-millionaire at 27 after floating his company on the London Stock Exchange for a couple of hundred million dollars. His real story. How did he become the person he is today? What drove him
Why turbulent times for Ryanair boss?
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has always been an interesting character to me… I’ve never been sure what to make of him. Is he that rude? Does he not care about his customers? Are his public outbursts for real or just for publicity? So, when I came across a biography not authorised by O’Leary, written by
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Tree planting gets ‘Queens’ approval
Amazingly, our tree planting exploits have received royal approval… Our planting and charity partner (Shiva Trust) have registered a selection of the tree’s we’ve planted at Meadows Farm and Animal Sanctuary with the Queens Green Canopy. The Queen’s Green Canopy is a unique tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022, inviting
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Silicon valley boffins reveal life secrets
Silicon valley is the place where the brightest kids hatch an idea, start a company with the hope of changing the world and striking it rich. Over the years Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Wolfe befriended Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal and serial investor), who introduced Wolfe to the world of silicon valley. Using the
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How paper can help us plant more trees?
Most organisations need to print certain documents, which means they buy paper… Although most paper is made using trees in managed sustainable forests, we’re still conscious to produce paper trees still need to be felled. Understanding that trees form part of the solution to addressing climate change (they take carbon out of the atmosphere and
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