Education and Career

One of the major responsibilities a student has to fulfill is maintaining their room. Even though it might seem like a small and insignificant task, it makes a lot of difference in one’s performance. The major objective of a student’s room should be focused on increasing productivity. Other than that,...

As a CEO, you can protect your company against the threat of boycotts, tariffs, or bans? It depends on how you prepare for, act during, and respond afterward. The speed of news and social media can now create boycotts overnight. They can spark over dirty laundry that’s been aired out,...

Everybody is in search of knowledge as they scrape off intricate parts, go around every nook and corner and try to build themselves up into intellectual beings, the kind of beings one looks up to in a room full of people. Earning money and being a millionaire always comes secondary...

It is natural for your expenses to rise as you reach your university years. It is difficult to manage money and be responsible for it initially; however, you can plan your expenditure strategically to ensure that you are not wasting any money on unnecessary and unrequired things. Here are a...

As people in general – and millennials in particular – become increasingly resistant to being told what to do, it is clear that the old-fashioned performance management systems are no longer working. As a result, the non-directive nature of coaching holds the key to creating a positive learning environment that...

Somewhere along the way strategic planning became inexorably linked to the concept of time. The thinking became: If tactical plans are short-term, then strategic plans must be long-term. Strategic plans were expected to be updated -- or even completely revamped -- on an annual basis. The key elements were to...

Imagine you agree to join a friend's social hockey team. Like me perhaps, you know the basics of hockey -- that there are goals, hockey sticks and a ball -- but you don't know the rules, and you certainly don't understand the nuances within the game and the plays of...

Peter Drucker once allegedly said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company that ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast.’ It’s a quote that’s used extensively these days to emphasise the importance of how a company operates over the why. Yet – and I’m sure Peter Drucker will be devastated...

A recent Gallup Poll found that 85 percent of people worldwide really don’t like their jobs – in fact, many “hate” their jobs according to Jim Clifton, CEO and Chairman of Gallup. For something that we spend most of our waking hours doing, that statistic is incredibly sad. Life is...

Go a little slow, but try reading it all. At the outset a few questions will get you in the mood. There are phases in the education cycle from kindergarten to school to college to universities to jobs of all kinds – nation, community, entrepreneur, skilled, scientist, doctor …an extensive...