Education and Career

Yangtze River in China has been found to be the most polluting river in the world, dumping some 333,000 tonnes of plastic each year into the East China Sea, according to researchers at the Ocean Cleanup Project. It was found that the the Ganges River in India 'is the world's...

Online Shopping is becoming the craze of today’s generation. More and more people are getting connected to the Internet and they are using it in an innovative way to get the best of bargains, that the layman people are unable to do in bricks and mortars stores. Online shopping is...

So often, I see seasoned business leaders who think they’ve learned all that they can, but I have to respectfully disagree. One area in particular that I’ve found that executives can always grow in is employee-employer dialogue — particularly when it comes to the “tough” conversations. Whether you’re tasked with...

Get it done and get it done fast! This is how CEOs are measured today. See a problem, fix it, and move on to the next one, the faster the better. The old “Time is money,” has given way to the new “Speed is money.” And in the world of...

In survey after survey of senior business leaders across the country, employee retention ranks in the top three business priorities for their companies. Higher voluntary churn than companies want, particularly among high performers, is creating a significant drag on productivity, efficiency, and profit. Article after article provides advice on employee...

The Texas capital, Austin ranked as the No. 1 place to live in America in 2017, according to new ranking by realtor.com, with Jacksonville (Florida) coming in at No. 2 and Las Vegas at No. 3. Other cities that made the top 10 include Nashville, Charlotte, Phoenix, Riverside-San Bernardino, Oklahoma...

Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James lead the list of Forbes magazine's richest athletes in the world for 2017.  There is a significant gap between the top three (Ronaldo, James, and Messi) and the rest of the list. The Real Madrid star Ronaldo is estimated to have earned a total of...

Technology has actually enhanced our quality of life in a number of ways; therefore this is not surprising why it has even made the way to the classroom. At the present time, not only the teachers are using the latest technology to manage their classroom in the best possible manner...

The final months of 2016 were bleak for those with an outlook on the economy. U.S. growth rates in early 2017 shrank to a five-year low of 1.6 percent, making 2015’s and 2014’s totals — 2.6 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively — look robust. The most recent figures were alarming...

Research shows that less than 30% of change efforts succeed. In any other profession, a 70% failure rate would be unacceptable. It’s time we make it so in the professional ranks of leadership. While the ability to accelerate organizational change is arguably the most important role of a leader, it...