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Work consumes 1/3 of our time daily. The problems we face there we tend to carry at home and finally in our personal life. It is important to take some burden off our shoulders at least with these 4 common useful pieces of advice. Don't cling to a mistake just...

I am often asked by leaders how to manage constant negativity from their teams. I have been fascinated with positive thinking since reading the book ‘Learned Optimism’ by Martin Seligman, positive psychology’s founding father, who argues that we can cultivate a positive outlook and perspective. Seligman (2006) explored the beneficial impacts of...

Global markets have been zig-zagging over the last year, as the greater half of 2022 saw macroeconomic problems causing headwinds for investors and traders. On the back of these challenges, global central banks have been aggressively hiking rates in an attempt to dampen red-hot inflation, causing near and long-term concern...

The means of transportation have helped us with things in our lives. They are useful development of the economy, tourism, and trading. The primitive man moved in search of food or out of curiosity to know his surroundings or even to protect himself from various physical dangers. Humanity quickly realized...

Statistics is more complex than our minds want us to believe. We are inclined to think in very different ways, often leading to errors of judgement. For example, when an event occurs more often than expected in a certain period of time, we tend to believe that it will occur...

Invesco Ltd. (IVZ), an investment management firm, said on Wednesday that it has appointed its Senior Managing Director and Head of the Americas, Andrew Schlossberg, as Chief Executive Officer with effect from June 30. Schlossberg will succeed Marty Flanagan. Mr. Schlossberg has been in the asset management industry since 1996...

In the boutique professional services industry, there are “young” 10-year-old firms and “old” 10-year-old firms. The difference almost always boils down to the energy level of the founder. If they are energized when they realize that their problems are not theirs alone and seek out collaborative solutions, they tend to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call for corporate executives, revealing how fragile and interdependent our global supply chains truly are. As lockdowns and border closures brought much of the world to a standstill, executives were forced to grapple with logistics and supply chain challenges they could never have...

Disney’s CEO Bob Iger demanded on Monday, January 9, that all employees return to the office for at least four days a week because "in a creative business like ours, nothing can replace the ability to connect, observe, and create with peers that comes from being physically together.” That’s similar...

There was a collective groan when the airline check-in person announced our flight would be delayed. Travel-weary passengers shook our heads and hoped for the best but became increasingly dispirited as a second and third delay were declared. I’d just spent some quality time visiting my mom who lives nearly...