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Recruiting energetic people and empowering them to achieve elevated levels withing the organisation is a number one focus of mine on a daily basis. It is my goal to build my team to become leaders in their own right. This, to me, is the best way I can lead. It...

Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. We all know we either organise or attend more than we should.  How often are you asked to attend a meeting or send a diary invite to get others to attend? A recent Microsoft Office survey listed the top three-time wasters in business. These include...

JK Chelladurai is the founder & CEO of OneBill, a Silicon Valley Company, with a Global presence across four continents and 14 different industries, that builds end-to-end billing and revenue management software platforms. JK has over 32 years of experience in software development including 26+ years of experience in building...

The strategist's dilemma: According to Forbes, the amount of data created in the last two years is more than 90 percent of the world's total data combined. Furthermore, IDC Global DataSphere forecasted in May 2020 that more than 59 zettabytes of data would be created, captured, copied and consumed in...

Becoming a leader is a trait that many learn, but there are a few who come along that are just born to lead. Take for instance Dan Ashburn, whose natural leadership has guided him through a military career and combined with an innate sense for technology, has launched him to...

Pre-pandemic, businesses across the world were engaged in discussions on future of work. The knowledge economy, Industry 4.0, evolving labour legislations all were the factors influencing the course of work and discourse on the subject. However, post-pandemic the corporate world is witnessing not only a paradigm shift in work but...

Software houses, or companies that develop software for clients, are a Polish export in the IT sector. This is confirmed by data from Clutch, which is the most important ranking service, including for software development companies. Its database contains 843 software houses from Poland, while only 430 are from Germany...

Self-love is a word that people wouldn't use in the last century and perhaps this happened because they didn't need it so much. The world we live in today may provide lots of luxuries and it is an easy life in particular terms but it holds a variety of challenges...

With all the talk of listening skills in sales, the skill of engagement gets short shrift. This fails everyone — especially clients. Being a great listener is critically important to succeeding in sales. It’s no wonder, then, that salespeople literally go to school to actively improve their listening skills. Sadly,...

A Forbes and McKinsey study found that $900 billion was wasted on digital transformation projects in 2018, with 70% of digital transformation projects failing. Now, as the world tries to rebound from the global pandemic, 80% of organisations have accelerated their digital transformation strategies to meet both internal and external...