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Working from home can be a blessing and a curse. You have the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own  home, but it's easy to get distracted by your surroundings or take advantage of this freedom and never actually work. Many companies are also moving to a hybrid model...

Amazon just announced that it is rolling out Amazon Sidewalk across the US. This is a low bandwidth network that piggybacks on users’ existing wifi to create (in theory at least) a community-wide network similar to a Bluetooth network but with much great range – ideally across the entire community....

While businesses play out their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies within their various national and international ecosystems, an often-overlooked dimension is how innovative regulation and governmental support can unlock AI’s full potential.  AI promises to have the same disruptive effect on today’s global economy as electricity in the 19th century, and...

Emergencies never come with a prior invitation, they strike suddenly. Thus, to battle hurricanes, earthquakes, wars, and pandemic situations like covid-19, we all need to have a high-end emergency kit at our disposal. Here in the blog, we have named some of the best high-end emergency bags that stand as...

Today we will attempt to step into the mind of a person who suffers from commitment issues. Is it rational? Should these people change? Let's have a closer look. Commitment is translated into losing freedom Freedom is an interesting word. Its conceiving was made by ancient Greeks. For Greeks, freedom...

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...

If immersing ourselves in challenging situations can boost our growth, what can we learn from running a 350-kilometre ultramarathon? When I raced the Delirious W.E.S.T. 200-miler along the Bibbulman track in Western Australia, I expected to gain new insights. What astonished me was that running for almost 69 hours primarily...

As our vast world shrinks into a progressively diverse global village we are, more often than not, called on to lead, work and teach in situations where there is more than one culture at play. Acquiring the knowledge and skills to manoeuvre effectively in multicultural environments is increasingly important. This...

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...

Leadership in today’s global world is a multicultural challenge laden with complexity. Whether leading across geographical borders or navigating increased diversity at home, one of the key challenges is to align people of different cultural backgrounds to work together to fulfil the same objectives. It is fair to say, it...