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The elusive one percent in the United States live a life of luxury and exclusivity where everyone knows everyone. If advertisers want to reach the elite class, they must gain access to their inner circle, and no one does it better than Jason Binn, founder of DuJour Media. First Big...

Strategic Communication is the management of organizational communication to achieve specific objectives. It includes the development and implementation of plans, programs, and activities to influence or change attitudes beliefs, or behaviors of target audiences. In short, Strategic Communication is about getting your message across to others to achieve your desired...

Luxurious and expensive houses around the world are owned by celebrities. In this article, you will read about ten impressive properties and their famous owners. Beyonce and Jay Z's Bell Air Mansion in Los Angeles The famous couple bought the impressive house in 2017 for 88 million dollars. The house...

Advancements in new-age technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and connected devices/IoT are enabling organizations to reimagine nearly every aspect of their business, making them more connected, more data-driven, and more efficient. This is especially true for supply chains. Businesses are employing these advanced technologies to build intelligent supply...

In Q1,22, VC investment in Europe was exceptionally strong. Some companies in several European countries made significant deals. Let's take, for example, Checkout.com in the UK (1 billion dollars), Bolt in Estonia (710 million dollars), Relex in Finland (566 million dollars), Doctolib in France (571 million dollars), Getir in Turkey...

One could argue that this is perhaps one of the most politically charged environments in the history of the United States. Over the past two decades, corporate activism has seemed to be growing exponentially; the difference between actions a company is willing or expected to take even within the last...

As wealth grows, its management requires specialized knowledge, skill, and expertise. High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) and Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWIs) particularly invest their time and money in hiring a good financial analyst or a team of such analysts. The reasons are out there: with so many resources...

Finance is the management of money.  It is by nature analytical as investing, lending, borrowing, saving, and budgeting ultimately ends up in a P&L and balance sheet.  There tends to be a skew towards being analytical.  Accurate.  Logical.     However, as finance leaders become people leaders then the skills which once...

Allow me to take you to Niger - landlocked with Algeria to the northwest, Mali to the west, Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin and Burkina Faso to the southwest. I am sure each of those countries conjures up various images in your...

A lot has been said about psychological safety for companies. Google discovered in a two-year study that it was the most important element their high performing teams had in common (Rozovsky, 2015). Many scientists and practitioners have studied the concept and ways to build this in teams for the last...