Education and Career

Have you ever wondered why some people and businesses just never seem to struggle with their finances? It may be that they earn a similar amount of money to you and have similar turnover to your business, but for some reason they are able to afford a somewhat better lifestyle...

On any given day, teams of executives across the country are huddled around boardroom tables, or ferreted away on retreats, busily devising their company’s winning strategy: the game plan that will enable their organisation to deal with disruption and truly thrive. But will that strategy ever get past its first...

Is all publicity good publicity? Just ask Chipotle what it thinks after highly publicized E. coli outbreaks led to its first ever quarterly loss, owing to a sales nosedive of 23.4 percent. Every industry has its nightmare PR situation, whether it’s food-safety issues for a restaurant or criticisms of environmental...

As a species, human beings are very adaptable to changing circumstances; this is how we’ve survived the last 200,000 years. However, that does not mean, we, humans, like or embrace change. More so, when that difference is perceived as being less personally beneficial than the status quo. Now add a...

Ever wondered how many words the average person speaks a day?  Turns out it’s around 16,215 for women, and 15,669 for men, according to the Scientific American. However much of what is said is never heard because humans are great at talking, but less good at listening.  We are often...

In 1974 Ronald Gallimore and Roland Tharp were psychology students on the campus of UCLA. On the other side of Westwood Boulevard, across from the academic side of campus is Pauley Pavilion, where John Wooden coached his UCLA Bruins basketball team. Gallimore and Tharp spent every afternoon of the 1974-1975...

Whether you’ve worked your way to the top of an established concern, or you’ve found yourself running your own start-up with a skeleton crew of carefully selected employees, chances are you never envisaged yourself as a manager when you started out. Sure, some of us naturally feel the need or...

The British economic and political landscape has changed in the light of the Brexit vote and while politicians negotiate the exit from the EU the landscape will continue to change. Despite the fact that the FTSE 100 has regained all of its losses since the referendum result was announced and...

When it comes to running an online business, a CEO usually has the final say on what happens and where the future of the company might be headed. One area that every CEO and entrepreneur need to be focusing more effort on, is in the department of business and marketing...

Across industries as varied as finance, e-commerce, and food/beverage, companies today are focused on much more than business as usual: Morgan Stanley is giving career advice to women; Amazon is entering cargo delivery; and Coca-Cola is training entrepreneurs in underprivileged geographies. It’s increasingly clear that in 2016, businesses of all sizes...