Big Picture

Leadership requires not only management skills but also creativity and a sense of balance. One thing some well-known leaders have found to be beneficial for these areas is meditation. In a fireside chat at the Greenwich Economic Forum, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates and Arianna Huffington of Thrive talked about...

"The womb from which you emerge determines your fate to an enormous degree for most of the seven billion people in the world." —Warren Buffett Most ambitious individuals are interested in entrepreneurship. But they are more concerned about the risks and challenges involved in it than pursuing it seriously.  They...

This is the 21st century when everything and anything has the potential to be taken up on the virtual platform. Technology has defined and re-defined our lives in a way that could only have been a figment of fantastical imagination for our early ancestors. Today, we can do anything: from...

At a time when companies are facing an unprecedented set of circumstances – from a global health pandemic to a worldwide economic contraction – it’s difficult to think beyond the immediate crises of the day. In fact, many companies become utterly reactive during recessions, scrambling from one problem to the...

If you are a law student, you’d know the value of internships. When I was in a law school, we were expected to do at least one internship during the summer and winter breaks. We were asked to explore various kinds of internships, from chamber internships to corporate firm internships....

Journal articles are very important sources of knowledge in the scholarly world. Whether you are an academician or a person of curiosity, there is always an article for you to read and educate yourself. So far as academics is concerned, journal articles assume an exceptionally high reputation and are very...

Todays’ way of working has led people to often change employers and many times even their whole career orientation. The forecasts during the last decade show that the average employee of the western world will have to change his career seven times during his lifetime. Human resource recruiters on their...

Unprecedented challenges confront the American worker in 2020. The dual forces of the pandemic and the phenomenon that is artificial intelligence have compelled companies to lay off workers in record numbers on a continuing basis. When faced with terminating employees as a last resort, companies should consider offering outplacement services...

In their Harvard Business Review article (2018), Dimmock and Gerken share their research on the contagiousness of employee fraud: they say, "even your most honest employees become more likely to commit misconduct if they work alongside a dishonest individual." Bad behaviour is contagious. So too is good behaviour! The human brain...

For anyone that has ever worked in customer service, you would know there are certain behaviours that are greatly welcomed from customers that can help to make your job easier or even make your day. During this ever changing and challenging time, the ability to be a great customer and...