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Europe’s largest economy, and the fourth largest in the world, Germany, has been in a zero-growth situation for most of the year. This, despite that the country’s unemployment rate is at a historical low and The European Central Bank is supporting the economy with an extreme quantitative monetary policy. Further,...

For the last 200 years, the office has been the workplace of choice for many employees. Everybody in a team came to the same office at the same time to work the same hours every day. It was not just easier; it was essential for getting work done. The office...

Multinationals can spend up to $22 million each year ensuring they are they fully compliant.  This can include everything from drafting and implementing internal policies that identify data security, hiring, training, certifying procedures to making sure all appropriate financial disclosures are shared with shareholders. Compliance can also include a delineated...

Organisational change is rapidly accelerating, where a 2018 McKinsey report indicated that 80% of executives were concerned about the emerging risk in their business models. This new age is now characterised with greater speed, combined with greater uncertainty and risk. This new environment includes the almost daily presidential tweets, trade...

American psychotherapist, Carl Rogers, observed a kind of “conditional positive regard”— a more critical view of oneself — in therapy patients. According to Rogers, this self-critical view stopped children from working toward ideals and led to excessive approval-seeking in adulthood. In the past decade, scientific research revealed strong correlations between...

Peter Drucker once stated that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.”  I couldn't agree more! As someone who has built a business and advises others on how to do the same, I have learned many valuable lessons about the importance of culture and how, whether good or bad, corporate culture has...

A downturn in the American economy will hurt the US stock markets, but a sell-off on Wall Street won’t necessarily damage the American GDP growth quite as much– it’s another sign of changing macroeconomic dynamics. It is well-known that since the global financial crisis, the American GDP growth has been...

Executives are aware that corporate strategy mainly encompasses four aspects: analysis, pro-activeness, defensiveness, and futurity. So how can you as an executive use these four dimensions? Scholars provide a blueprint to follow: Analysis refers to the degree to which the roots of problems are analysed to provide the best solutions,...

The Indian auto industry may be going through a massive downturn. But that is not stopping some of the bigger players in the market to spend money to promote their brands in a big way. On December 1, The Festival of Speed (FOS), is being held at the Buddh International...

Today’s leading businesses are facing many near-term challenges in an uncertain economic and political environment. More than ever, though, they also need to focus on the long term, because the keys to success in the next decade will be different from today’s. Business leaders need to reinvent their companies for...