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Two thousand twenty was a year most CEOs would love to forget.  Most of us long for everything from consumer behavior to employee relations to get back to “normal.”  For better or worse, turning back the clock just is not an option.  For all the volatility and unpredictability we faced...

I would like to share some of the insights I have gleaned from the delegates of the Leading Change and Embracing Change webinars I have been running since March 2020. Lessons about change, about anxiety, about coping with uncertainty, about leadership.  Several of the insights are revelations. Others are reminders...

When Club Tattoo was founded in 1995, we started with the naïveté of most business owners. Over time, through many failures, we realized that our passion, drive, and work ethic have fueled our enduring success and been the saving grace behind our chain of luxury studios.   Integrating these qualities into...

The times are changing, and like a hot housing market flooded with buyers eager to make their move - the film industry is on fire with viewers eagerly searching for new content to consume. Never before has so much content been this easily accessible, allowing independent artists, bloggers and producers...

Opportunities can exist even during testing times. The pandemic dealt a body blow to most businesses, with world cities reeling from lockdowns, subdued demand, supply constraints, and disruptions in cross-border trade. Willingly or unwillingly, people are constrained within the four walls of their house. Few services, however, witnessed a change...

With a net worth of roughly US$12.5 billion, Celltrion Chairman Seo Jung-jin is the wealthiest person in South Korea for 2021. The number of South Korean billionaires increased sharply from 28 in 2020 to 46 this year. This year, Samsung Group Chairman Lee Jae-yong (Jay Y. Lee) is the second-richest...

A pandemic hasn’t stopped many of America’s richest families from adding to their fortunes. It comes as no surprise that the wealthiest family in the United States is the Waltons - with a net worth of $247 billion. That’s $147 billion more than the second wealthiest family - Koch Family....

it’s no surprise that Jennifer Aniston is the richest cast member of the American sitcom Friends, but what about Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, and the others? Notorious for negotiating: In season one each cast member earned a cool US$22,500 per episode. That worked out to $540,000 for the entire first...

Thanks to soaring commodity prices, Gina Rinehart is once again the richest person in Australia, boasting a personal net worth of more than US$23.8 billion. She was followed by fellow miner Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest (US$20.9 billion), Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes (US$14.5 billion), and the other Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar, who...

With a net worth of roughly US$340 million, James Alan Hetfield (Metallica) is the wealthiest heavy metal singer in the world, followed by Ozzy Osbourne (No. 2, US$225 million), Bruce Dickinson (No. 3, US$100 million); and Rob Halford (No. 4, US$80 million). Like most incredibly successful rock and metal groups,...