Education and Career

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...

Millennials—customers born between 1982 and 2000—now officially outnumber baby boomers and represent a key demographic for retail sales and marketing programs. It is estimated that the buying power of the millennials will have an impact for six decades or more—meaning it’s time to start paying close attention to their spending...

As a leader in the tech industry, I enjoy my executive role at PointSource, helping run a growing digital transformation firm working across many clients and industries. When I am asked to participate in women-in-tech speaking panels or events, I am happy to engage in thoughtful conversation with a variety...

If there was ever a cautionary SEO tale, it’s that of JCPenney. In 2011, the retail giant hired an SEO firm to help boost online traffic. The firm began linking to irrelevant websites to artificially increase rankings, a practice Google has long sought to extinguish. Once Google’s algorithms identified the...