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One of the biggest challenges of working in digital is learning to roll with the times. That means dealing with shifting tides and constant fluctuations. What you knew yesterday is not gospel today, meaning you always must be well and truly on the ball.  If there is one thing we...

Closing new customers is cause for celebration. You ring the bell, bang the gong, or pop open a bottle of champagne to commemorate closing a new deal. As long as you keep getting new logos, your company is winning, right? Not necessarily. When you treat every new customer as a “special...

The very ethos of the National Mental Health policy is to prevent mental illnesses, promote mental health, destigmatise the notion of mental illnesses, enable the socio-economic integration of those suffering from mental illnesses, providing adequate care and facilities for rehabilitation and cure of mental health issues.  However, it does not...

With a fortune estimated at $73 billion, Melinda Gates could be about to become the second-richest woman in the world after her divorce Bill Gates. Melinda French Gates – who has recently introduced her maiden name French into her social media profiles (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Linkedin)– will rank behind...

At the beginning of 2021, Bernard Arnault's net worth was $114 billion (January 1, 2021). His net worth rocketed to $121 billion on March 3, 2021. A month later on April 3, 2021 - a luxury goods tycoon's fortune topped $132 billion for the first time. As of this writing,...

The power of trust is well known. And yet, when I am in a room with a team, examining ways to increase trust, most managers differ on their explanation of it. It is like love, you know when you have it, but difficult to describe. It is, in contrast, easier...

CEO’s need to study weak signals, anticipate and translate into a foresight, manoeuvring the survival imbroglio. VUCA has several forms, some ‘expected-known-unknown’ to the extreme version ‘unexpected-unknown-unknown’. Which category does your business fall into? Have you dissected the asymmetricity in your organization? We were inspired from selected seminal papers, ground...

Our society has glorified the lone wolf leader – the idea that one person, alone, can solve all of your business problems – for far too long. Our business challenges are too big for one person; we need all team members, committed and aligned to the same goal, to achieve...

Growth and Development: The emerging Global South, as heterogeneous a place as the term allows, has mostly been joined by the fact that it is primarily characterized by perceived underdevelopment coupled with rapid economic growth. That rapid economic growth has made some forecasters lump together quite different economic profiles where...

Research conducted by World Travel and Research Council (WTTC), revealed that the Travel & Tourism sector suffered a loss of almost US$4.5 trillion to reach US$4.7 trillion in 2020, with the contribution to GDP dropping by a staggering 49.1% compared to 2019; relative to a 3.7% GDP decline of the global economy in...