Education and Career

Place Branding attracts not only tourism but also invite people to bring in their money for investments and offer new opportunities for economic development. Place marketing with its increased FDIs leads to international positioning of a place in terms of regional and urban development. Here is the list of top...

Morgan Stanley’s takeover of Investa was one of the largest leveraged buyout transactions in Australian history. To help navigate the change, US-based real estate executive Scott MacDonald was flown to Sydney for a week to review the situation. He eventually left five years later, after experiencing one of the most...

The power of social media within business – both for individual professionals and organisations as whole – is growing. It gives companies the power to amplify sales, win new contracts, update shareholders and influence audiences.  In addition, social media is now increasingly used as a recruitment tool, with both employers...

Businesses only grow by making it rain, and you need a team of rainmakers to keep sales from running dry. Take a look at the highest-grossing companies, and you’ll notice that most of them approach sales with that exact mentality. Part of this has to do with revenue, of course....

Not surprisingly, in first place, claiming this year's title of best university for business and economics, is Massachusetts Institute of Technology—or MIT. Number two on the 2016 list of the 25 best universities for business and economics in the world is famous Stanford University, followed by the University of Oxford...

What’s going on? Emails gush into our inbox at an unprecedented pace, restructures require us to cover the jobs of 2 or 3 people at a time, we spend the majority of our day in meetings, and…everyone wants an answer ‘now’. Here’s the paradox:  Isn’t technology meant to make our...

I started Walk West when I was a guy with a laptop and a dream. Looking back, that dream wasn’t complex, evolved, or even nuanced. The dream was not working for anyone else... and it really was as simple as that. Armed with a degree in Computer Science from North...

In recent years, lots of effort and resources have gone into improving corporate cultures. Partly driven by the employee engagement movement, many HR leaders are recognising that their culture is key to unlocking potential within. While plenty of money and effort has been directed towards improving workplace cultures, it can...

5 ways to weed out self-destructive thought patterns and begin living to your potential: I’m a prime example of the very syndrome I want to describe to you- the chronic condition of ‘ineffective thinking’.  When I need to ‘get creative’, the brakes go on.  My head fills with unrealistic, self-limiting...

Today, age is no longer a detriment to success. In fact, about 20 percent of companies have hired executives as young as 30 and below according to a study conducted by CareerBuilder and Headhunter.com. Generation Y or millennials, as we call them, comprised of individuals born between 1980 and 2000 are...