Education and Career

At $2.6 trillion, the combined wealth of China's 2,130 richest people is roughly the same size as the GDP of the United Kingdom - the world’s 5th largest economy. With a fortune of $43 billion, Xu Jiayin, also known as Hui Ka Yan, chairman of real estate developer Guangzhou Evergrande...

Social media is important for every business, and there are certain Trends followed on different social networking sites. With this, businesses will lose their customer if they do not keep up with the latest social media trends. Social media Trends are as important as a business loan, and one should...

IT’S VERY EASY to think that crises are things that only happen to bad businesses or bad people. Sometimes it’s true. Sometimes a business or person has been getting away with doing something underhanded for far too long and is finally caught out. But sometimes, crises happen to good people...

It was painful to watch: The client to whom I was providing coaching was trying to lead a cross-functional meeting. She wasn’t having much success, and her experience isn’t that unusual. In similar situations, most companies struggle with a ‘my-function-first’ mentality from teammates. And it wrecks productivity. In fact, over...

The universal search for meaning has entered the workplace at full throttle. Today’s employees see themselves as free agents in search of an authentic connection. They want more from work than simply a means for ensuring their basic needs are met. They have other needs to satisfy -- the need...

One morning, you get a call from one of your long-time retailers, complaining that he’s found your products being sold on Amazon at prices 20% lower than what you seek to have across all of your sales channels. Your retailer tells you he is very frustrated that he’s being asked...

Most of us have an inner yearning for meaning and purpose but not many of us find that meaning and purpose in our workplaces. But that will have to change if we want our organisations to stay relevant in the future and be a winner in the war for talent....

The question whether leaders are born or made has raged for decades. But what if this is a dead-end and misleading question that – like most closed questions – not only limits, but actually disguises, the truth? What if effective leaders are actually ‘initiated’? What if leadership requires making a...

The state of mobile app marketing in the present app economy is shaping the strategies used by mobile app marketers in an age of unlimited supply of apps. App store dynamics drive the app economy, demand of the app marketplace and evolution of user behavior over the years. Every mobile...

From talented make-up artists on Instagram, to celebrities with a passion for human rights, the internet is alive with prominent figures who have established credibility within a specific industry. Known as ‘influencers’ these individuals can be highly persuasive thanks to their authenticity and outreach, but what does it really take...