Education and Career

Most of us are familiar with Sheryl Sandberg’s idea that women need to “lean in”, which is a great metaphor for women in business as it empowers them to take charge of their career and how they choose to lead.  The challenge for many women is that “leaning in” can...

Leaders make many decisions each day.  Decisions that range from simple things such as what tie or dress to wear, to more strategic matters such as where to invest, what product to launch and how to address falling margins. It’s comforting to think that our brain, with its vast capacity...

In a world obsessed with maintaining a youthful appearance, wouldn't it make sense to ensure our brains stayed young too?  This is one area where you definitely wouldn't want to see a reduction in those lovely brainy wrinkles, the sulci and gyri that enable our neocortex to fit so beautifully...

Central to human personality theory and popularized by Carl Jung in the early 20th century, the terms introversion and extroversion are commonly used to describe the ways in which people interact with one another.  Contrary to popular belief however, the psychological preference scale relates to far more than simply how...

One hundred years ago, the first U.S. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test was created by Psychologist Alfred Binet and Stanford University. In 1990, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) was defined as a scientifically testable “intelligence” by Psychology Professors Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer. And in 2003, Cultural Intelligence (CQ) was introduced by...

We live and work in a technology intensive world. By most accounts the level of technology involvement in our lives is at an all-time high.  That being said, it is about to increase significantly in the next few years. We have just entered a period of technological advancement that is...

Ukraine's Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (KNUTD) has honored Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj, CEO and editorial director of the CEOWORLD magazine, with an honorary Doctorate at the "VI International Scientific Conference: Effectiveness Of Organizational And Economic Mechanism Of Innovative Development Of Higher Education," on 7 October 2016. Accepting the...

The University of Oxford ranked as Europe's top university in this year’s Times higher education world university rankings. Among the top 25 European universities, University of Cambridge is ranked 2nd, Imperial College London 3rd, Switzerland's ETH Zurich 4th, and the University College London 5th. Europe is one of the world's...

Over the past 20 years our perception of leadership has changed. Leadership theories have come and gone and leadership gurus have risen then faded away. Guidance on how to be a good leader has evolved and the leadership tool kit keeps changing as new methods outdate the old. The fundamentals...

Before Donald Trump was in politics, he was one of the biggest business tycoons in the United States.  He made most of his money through real estate investments, which is a very tough business to master. He has been in charge of thousands of employees and has learned his fair...