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Every year executives struggle to determine why their employees don’t trust the company, and why every year the employee survey says communication is the biggest problem facing employees.  Teams are formed each spring to address these very problems, and every year trust and communication once again top the list. Sample...

More than any other time in recent history, people looking for work today are much more likely to find it as contingency staff workers rather than full-time employees. Though the numbers and statistics vary by city, profession, and experience level, there’s little dispute that staffing and employment firms have experienced...

Once a lowly factory worker, Zhou Qunfei, chairwoman and CEO of Hunan-based touch-screen maker Lens Technology, became the richest woman in China on March 30 with a personal fortune estimated to be worth more than US$7.6 billion - and counting. Originally a 'factory girl' in Shenzhen, Zhou Qunfei was once...

Today’s work environment is dramatically different than it was just fifteen years ago. Managing the needs of the different generations in the workplace is certainly not a new task for Human Resource professionals and Executives, but large-scale demographic changes coming in the near future will require special attention. The “brain...

The 66-year old, retail mogul and CEO of Fast Retailing, Tadashi Yanai, is the Japan's wealthiest individual with a net worth of US$21.1 billion. That's up from $3.3 billion previously, according to the "JAPAN's 50 RICH LIST" published by Forbes magazine. Noticeably, out of the top 50 wealthiest individuals in...

With the changing market realities, globalization and mobile app revolution, entrepreneurship is the new phenomenon.   There’s no age limit to starting a company and becoming a millionaire these days. Be it the 20 something or young high school kids, the new breed of entrepreneurs are defying norms and challenging limits....

Now how would you know what your clients actually want? And to find a perfect reply you’ll surely ponder around concepts like sales, warm customer services and quality products. But what if even after you believe you’ve offered your clients the moon, they still hang-out with your rivals! The finest...

While taking staff cost crunch offshore has become a solution for many small and medium-size businesses (SMEs), horror stories of outsourcing gone wrong abound among chief executives and their companies, whether they are offshoring to India, the Philippines, or another low-cost country. There are CEOs who visit their offshore team...

Fancy an Italian beach holiday, look no further! Rabbit Beach on the island of Lampedusa off the south coast of Sicily has been named as the best beach in Italy in a survey of worldwide tourists by the TripAdvisor website. Italy's best beach? A remote beach in Sicily, Italy: Rabbit...

The travel website Tripadvisor reveals its 2015 readers' most favourite top ten Irish beaches, Inchydoney beach in West Cork has been voted the best beach in Ireland for the second year in a row. While, Derrynane beach in County Kerry has moved up from 3rd to 2nd position. The full list...