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Having scared people who are afraid of responsibilities in your team is a waste of time. Here are 5 of the most common tactics they use and how to answer in each one of them. They avoid or postpone doing the task Postponing is a common tactic of someone who...

The removal of requirements to work from home forces business leaders into a decision of how they bring office working back into people’s lives. Whilst there have been benefits of remote working during the pandemic, it doesn’t work as a permanent solution for most teams long-term and many have already...

Like most hospitality and business schools, at Hotel Institute Montreux we teach management and leadership to our students. As academic studies show, management is both a science and an art: we can learn management techniques, but it is our personality and experiences that influence how we manage teams. Introducing students...

Research by lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, has estimated that buy-to-let landlords and second homeowners could see the capital gains tax (CGT) owed if they choose to sell increase by as much as £24,000. That’s if recommendations by the Office of Tax Simplification to change the tax threshold...

Dr. Sachin Bansal, Chief Explorer of India City Walks (ICW®) is a creative and passionate entrepreneur in the tourism industry. He is recognized as the pioneer in the curation & delivery of city sightseeing products. His incubation platform SUSTAINABLE ACHIEVEMENTS CHAMPIONING HERITAGE INDUCED NETWORK™ creates regeneration of the tourism economy....

Here’s a thought that goes against the default thinking of most leaders: Increasingly, it’s more important not to lead than to lead. Strange as it may at first sound, in a highly uncertain world it’s an important thought to understand and embrace—that is if your goals include adaptability, innovation, and...

It is common knowledge that the United States of America is an expensive country. That is to be expected after all. Over here, the quality of life is among, and you will have to pay up to avail of that kind of quality. However, those who are well-off can live...

Three personal stories. Three takeaways. Clarity To make a long (painful) story short, I typically ran the mile in junior high school. At the last meet of the year in 1975, however, I was asked to fill in as the third leg on our undefeated one-mile relay team.  No problem,...

Crises are emotionally charged turning points that can bring about swift, radical change. They can induce instability leading to undesirable outcomes that cost time, money, customers, careers and, in the worst of scenarios, lives. Crises can be natural, like an earthquake, or human-induced, like civil unrest. They can be sudden...

Being honest in such a demanding world could only be considered to be a luxury. Unfortunately, circumstances often lead us to the point where we don't find alternatives to defend ourselves and we turn into lying. The problem is that when people do this to us, we absolutely have no...