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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

A Look at Different Leadership Styles

A Look at Different Leadership Styles

Leadership can take many forms. As a leader in your own company, it can pay to understand what form of leadership you tend to express when working with your team. Listed below are some leadership styles to see if anything resonates.

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Three Significant Security Solutions You May Not Be Utilizing

Three Significant Security Solutions You May Not Be Utilizing

Your standard IT professional may suggest some common methods of network security such as implementing better preventative measures, like firewalls and antivirus. However, there is more that goes into network security—far more. If you’re not careful, you could accidentally miss some of these three security solutions and expose your business to potential threats. But we’re not about to let that happen!

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Your Business Need to Use a Surge Protector, Not a Power Strip

Your Business Need to Use a Surge Protector, Not a Power Strip

It’s easy to look at a power strip and a surge protector and question if there’s anything that actually makes them different. After all, they both give you extra plugs, right?

Yes, but there’s more to it than that. Listed below are some of the important differences between the two that make one a far better choice for your business’ power delivery needs.

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A Retrospective Look at AI and Work in 2023

A Retrospective Look at AI and Work in 2023

2023 was a banner year for artificial intelligence, with the technology exploding into the mainstream and becoming more accessible by the public than ever before. Listed below is what we’ve seen in the past year in terms of AI changed things for workers and workplaces everywhere.

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Why A Lot of Businesses are Sticking with Remote Work

Why A Lot of Businesses are Sticking with Remote Work

Do you remember a FEW years back when remote work went from being a privilege to the norm? It’s been a while since then, but many businesses have adopted hybrid or full remote operations, and as such, they are able to retain a semblance of normalcy even without the return of in-office work.

Some businesses have managed to get back to the state they were in prior to the pandemic, but there is a reason why a lot of businesses are not pushing the issue. Listed below are some of them, and why forcing the issue with your employees is not necessarily a good idea.

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Password Management is Important, Even in the North Pole

Password Management is Important, Even in the North Pole

We have the pleasure of working with many organizations, some of whom take more advantage of our remote services than others. We wanted to take a few moments to discuss one of our more discreet client businesses and a challenge we helped them resolve. Hopefully, sharing this won’t land us on the naughty list.

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How to Evaluate the Value of Cloud Computing

How to Evaluate the Value of Cloud Computing

While one of the big selling points of the cloud has always been how cost-effective it can be, it is imperative to remember that this isn’t always the case. There are situations where the value that a business gets from the cloud isn’t really worth the price of admission. How you can evaluate the value that the cloud can offer you, and how to use this data to your advantage, is listed below.

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Why Employee Satisfaction is Imperative

Why Employee Satisfaction is Imperative

When you consider your business’ investments, you probably think about things such as the hardware your team uses and the software this hardware supports. You might think about the furniture you’ve purchased to outfit your office. On the other hand, one often overlooked but critical element that needs some level of investment is your employee satisfaction.

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The Five Levels of Delegation

The Five Levels of Delegation

As the boss, you’re in a position to offload many of your business’ responsibilities to your employees. That’s more or less why you have employees in the first place. That being said, there’s more than one way that you can delegate tasks, depending on your personal style of management and the work style of each of your employees.

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How to Beat Procrastination in the Long Term

How to Beat Procrastination in the Long Term

Over the past several weeks, we’ve been discussing procrastination as a concept and how it tends to manifest. To wrap up our discussion, we wanted to share a few ways that you might be able to greatly reduce your and your team’s tendencies to procrastinate so that more can be accomplished.

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How to Beat Procrastination in the Short-Term

How to Beat Procrastination in the Short-Term

We’ve been examining the concept of procrastination in recent weeks - why we do it and how it often manifests itself in business processes. For our final few parts, we’ll be focusing on how you can stop procrastinating by utilizing both quicker, short-term tactics and long-term, sustained changes. Listed below are some short-term tactics.

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Identifying What Kind of Procrastinator You Are

Identifying What Kind of Procrastinator You Are

We recently started to explore the concept of procrastination as a means of understanding it better, and potentially, getting better at not doing it. Last time, we touched on a few ways that procrastination can potentially manifest, so it only made sense to us that we would continue pulling that thread and try to help you identify how you tend to procrastinate more specifically.

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The Different Types of Procrastination

The Different Types of Procrastination

“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” It’s good advice, as well as some of the easiest and most tempting advice to ignore. Procrastination is one of those things that we all assume we understand, but we wanted to take a bit of time to explore it in greater detail…and figure out how we can all work to resist it.

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Critical Certifications Your IT Staff Should Have

Critical Certifications Your IT Staff Should Have

Information technology is a constantly changing industry, with practices shifting all the time. As a result, anyone you have working on your company’s IT should be actively seeking out various certifications to confirm that they are keeping up to date on modern trends and standards. To help you accomplish this, we’ve put together a brief list of valuable IT certifications that your IT personnel—whether they’re in-house employees or outsourced professionals—should have.

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Advantages of Keeping a Clean Workspace

Advantages of Keeping a Clean Workspace

Every office has that one employee that doesn’t seem to care that they are working in a room with other people. You know the type: They have day-old food on their desk, there are papers and other unnecessary items strewn about the desktop, things are sticky and smell strange. The funny part is they seem comfortable with that mess. Listed below are the benefits of keeping your workspace clean.

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Research Says Meetings Can Negatively Impact Productivity

Research Says Meetings Can Negatively Impact Productivity

Meetings are a common hold-up for getting things done in the office, an idea that is certainly not unfounded. Research supports the premise that meetings impact productivity. Consider what the numbers say and how you can work to ensure meetings don’t influence your organization’s productivity in a negative way.

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Critical Thinking Benefits Your Business

Critical Thinking Benefits Your Business

Critical thinking skills are universally helpful to have, especially in the business setting, and especially when it comes to your business’ information technology management. Listed below are ways these skills benefit your business, and how you can work to foster them.

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Explaining Cloud Computing and How it Can Help Your Business

Explaining Cloud Computing and How it Can Help Your Business

Cloud computing is turning into a tool that is universally utilized by businesses to enhance remote access and provide the scalability for tools that allow a business to get the best bang for their buck. How does modern cloud computing work and why does it have such a huge potential benefit for your organization?

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The Benefits of AI

The Benefits of AI

AI has been a popular topic in recent months and years, which only makes sense. Not only has it been used in more public applications, but it has also caused controversy as it seems to “compete” with people. Back in September, art made by using an artificially intelligent platform caused a stir by winning an art competition, and workplace fears of a computer taking one’s job have seemingly become more well-founded than ever.

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Patience is a Virtue, Especially Amongst Your Staff

Patience is a Virtue, Especially Amongst Your Staff

Most people are capable of productivity, but sometimes it can come a bit harder for some than for others. If you find your staff have difficulty with consistency and productivity, we aren’t here to tell you methods for enhancing their productivity; rather, we want to introduce a concept that is often overlooked when trying to get the most out of your team, and is a trait often found in the most productive people. That trait is patience. 

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