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Coronavirus has struck and the landscape for many businesses in the tourism sector is hard. However, people are always willing to pay as long as they feel you offer some value with your product. To keep a business open and profitable you should not only focus on decreasing the expenses...

Pony Ma Huateng is back on top as China’s richest person. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Tencent Holdings, China’s biggest social media, and video games company. Ma Huateng, 49, who is also known as Pony Ma, cofounded Tencent in 1998. Tencent Holdings shares climbed by 7%...

I often hear leaders say that you have to push through or grind it out everyday in order to produce desired results. It’s like the 10,000 hour rule has been taken to the extreme in today's workplace and leaders are pushing teams to work as many hours as possible. Unfortunately,...

Covid-19 has hammered home something we already knew – that change is inevitable and often completely out of our control. It has also taught us that we have no choice but to accept it – good change, bad change, even change that we didn’t ask for. We can try to...

Real estate is a great industry especially if you are dealing with luxurious properties. At this particular moment, the sales prices in big cities decrease as a result of remote working has let big companies release some space in the building of big cities since their workers no need an...

The passions that divisive political and social issues invoke are making their way into all aspects of our lives — including the workplace.  For business leaders managing teams with differing views, growing tensions can have a significant impact on team morale, productivity and performance. But, at the same time, it’s...

When things get tough is when underlying quandaries seem to make their way to the surface. The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t create the battle with mental health and burnout in America, but it certainly fanned the flames. Personable communication has been stifled, taking place mostly on digital platforms—with many interactions losing...

The pressure to do trials quickly and efficiently has increased exponentially in the last year. It could be said that the increase has been proportional to the social recognition of the value that trials bring to health and well-being, to the expectations of patients to convert frequently fatal diseases into...

The Best of Times The past 30 years have been a golden age of global prosperity (although, to be fair, the same can be said about inequality). As the Third Wave of Globalization physically spread global value chains across the world, the Third Industrial Revolution digitally interconnected that world into...

The pandemic continues to weigh on the US economy. However, with a recently-passed third-round stimulus, more vaccines being distributed and states beginning to reopen, we expect a significant economic rebound quicker than originally anticipated. We believe we will see meaningful economic pick-up start late in the first quarter and continue...