Education and Career

What is TPP11? TPP11 (also known as CPTPP or TPP) is the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. It is coming soon with 11 members: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. This is poised to be the most important trade agreement in...

Confidence in emerging leadership has reached record-low numbers among businesses. Per Corporate Executive Board intel, 87 percent of firms aren’t confident in their up-and-coming star performers. Why the waning trust in rising talent? Perhaps well-meaning executive teams are barking up the wrong tree. After all, some of the best movers and...

The Microsoft founder Bill Gates and actor-turned-humanitarian Angelina Jolie are the world’s most admired people, according to a YouGov study. The 2018 list features 20 men and 20 women, all of whom are chosen as a result of online interviews with more than 37,000 people in 35 countries. Following on...

Technology has changed the way how you do business, interact with clients, manage your teams, and how you deal with data. A few years ago, nobody knew companies would be using Facebook to sell products and interact with their customers. Businesses of all types and sizes need to invest in...

Skip Prichard is the best-selling author of The Book of Mistakes and president and chief executive of OCLC. The Harvard Business Review noted Prichard as "standout example" of CEO engagement on social media, writing that he "blogs on leadership and shares insights from his favorite authors – often with no direct benefit to him or...

Tell us about your leadership style: - my job is to set a big hairy audacious goal that doesn't change easily, next is to push my team outside of their comfort zone and get them to do things that they thought weren't possible. I'm there to help them develop criteria...

Equity investors in businesses buy a piece of the business and get a partial ownership in the business. Equity investors invest in small businesses and provide capital to these businesses almost always in the form of cash. In exchange for their investments, these business investors get a small percentage of...

Food delivery market is on the rise and it's not a new business sector. Parcel food orders have been part of the restaurant since time immemorial, but this sudden rise in the no. of startups focused on on-demand food delivery indicates that a big force has come into play. And...

If there are two things that get you really fired up, it’s great food and great people. Where they come together in perfect union is in your café, the one you’ve been dreaming of opening up. It’s where you get to design the best experience a customer has ever had,...

In any industry, tech or traditional, there’s one essential leadership challenge that keeps CEOs awake at night. It’s how to develop the capacity to meet the next disruption. Leaders need to be able to co-sense and co-shape the next disruption and build an eco-system of partners to actualize that opportunity....