Education and Career

There are few things more frustrating in business than poor, weak or misguided leadership. Show me a business with poor leadership and I will show you a business that is dysfunctional, inefficient, and struggling to keep its head above water. When looking to transform your leadership, there are undeniable elements...

Well, the exact cost is difficult to pin down, but hosting an Olympics is a financially risky proposition. From 1968 through 2014, the average Summer Olympic Games had an average sports-related cost of $5.21 billion , while the average Winter Olympics costs $3.11 billion, according to a study by Bent...

Norway is ranked number 1 out of 162 countries and Hong Kong, when it comes to using economic growth to improve the wellbeing of its citizens, according to a report by the Boston Consulting Group. Would it surprise you one bit if I were to tell you they were all...

The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the toughest business schools to get into, according to th U.S. News annual survey, closer followers included Harvard Business School (HBS), which had 6.1% acceptance rate, and University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, which had 13% acceptance rate. Well, if you're...

s one might expect, world's busiest airport to be located in London, Singapore, New York, Beijing, or Dubai, but, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, located in the southern US city of Atlanta, Georgia took the top spot, according to the Airports Council International (ACI). With more than 101 million passengers passing through in...

While perimeter, cloud, and mobile security tend to grab the headlines, in reality it’s the database repositories and the private financial information stored in databases that are the actual target of most breaches. Comprehensive database security is commonly an overlooked area within financial services organizations, yet one of the most...

Workplace engagement is one of the most critical factors for creating and sustaining job satisfaction, increasing productivity and ensuring a healthy bottom line. Organisations with high rates of engagement consistently outperform their sector benchmarks for growth across a range of financials. Leadership experts Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner found that...

There’s a lot of excitement about big data. Interest in what we can do with information, especially large volumes of data, is at an all-time high. We have more data at this point in history than we’ve ever had, and most of us are looking for ways to put it...

Europe’s largest economy, Germany ranked number one among G-20 countries for well-being of children, according to a new report by Save the Children. Despite being the richest G-20 country in terms of GDP per capita, the United States ranks ninth among the world’s wealthiest nations, which ranks 20 major economies...

It is not surprising that the top 3 largest companies by market capitalization, in 2016, are all technology companies: Apple, Alphabet (the newly minted parent company of Google), and Microsoft. So, you want to get into the 200 billion-dollar club, try your luck at developing technology solutions. The 200 billion-dollar...