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It's been decades now and Africa still hasn’t left the position of being the second-most-populous continent. My connection has always been so enticing with the country. Delineating the beauty of the nation may take hours and days to get finished, so it will be better if I talk about only...

Portfolio Strategy and Governance for Innovation. “It isn’t a question of whether elephants can prevail over ants. It’s a question of whether a particular elephant can dance. If it can, the ants must leave the dance floor.”  —Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. How does a company the size of Amazon consistently...

French billionaire Bernard Arnault, the head of luxury goods group LVMH, has become the world’s wealthiest with a net worth of $186.2 billion, beating Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to data compiled by Forbes. LVMH Chairman was roughly $200 million richer than Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos. LVMH is a conglomerate...

With a net worth of roughly £23 billion, Sir Leonard Blavatnik, the Ukranian-born oil and media magnate, is the richest person in the United Kingdom, followed by David and Simon Reuben (No. 2, £21.465 billion), Sri and Gopi Hinduja (No. 3, £17 billion); and Sir James Dyson (No. 4, £16.3...

Think back to the last time someone introduced you to a new concept that really impacted you. You probably thought to yourself, "Wow!  If I could incorporate that into my daily life, it would be a game-changer.”  If you’re like most people, though, you didn’t. And if you did, it...

Countless companies struggle to find the right software solution to meet their varied needs. The result is a tangled mess of software, spreadsheets, and systems. To find the right software for your business, you have to consider what you’ll need as you grow rather than what you need at this...

Let’s start with something counterintuitive: Everyone says you “need to learn to focus,” or “need to master the art of concertation.” The scientific reality, however, is you can’t “laser focus” on anything. It’s not something humans – or monkeys – are able to do, according to research done by scientists...

Human beings are Jekyll-and-Hyde creatures. More than any other animal, we excel at collaboration. We make friends, we form teams, we launch start-up businesses, we found countries. Yet social life is also full of conflict with our fellow homo sapiens. We lie, we cheat, we steal, we kill. What’s wrong...

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Report, there are over 2.5 million veteran-owned businesses in the United States, employing more than 5 million people. These businesses generate a massive $1.1 trillion in revenue and represent over 9% of all US businesses. As any small-business owner will tell you, running...

Today, perhaps more so than any other time in the history of American business, it is not likely that the owner of a family business will find his children eager to take over the business when it becomes time to pass it on to the next generation. There are many...