CEO Perspectives

Many cities around the world have been abandoned. This can be due to wars, natural disasters, and many other reasons. Pripyat Perhaps the world's most famous abandoned city is Pripyat, built in 1970 for house workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, less than two kilometers away. An explosion destroyed...

If growing your business right now, my guess is staffing issues are delivering you a world of pain. Time and our precious human resources are in scarce supply. Every organisation is deprived of talent. As for time, that is the consequence and paid handsomely for, in lieu of human capital....

Animation stories have created their own history through the years. Billions of kids have grown up watching these characters on TV or in films. The success of this industry cannot be doubted, and of course, it holds a revenue of billions of dollars. Pokemon Pokemon tops the list. It is...

We watch billionaires from the other side of the fence and find their world an exhilarating show of success and grandeur. But, the grass is always greener on the other side, and it is very much possible for the other side to be as muddy - if not muddier - as...

When you think about the wealthiest persons in the world, the names Elon Musk, Mukesh Ambani, or Kylie Jenner will most likely spring up in your mind. But, what they have amassed is nothing of what many notable personalities from the yore did. The unaccounted wealth of these individuals surpasses...

“Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together. I’ve got some real estate here in my bag. So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s pies and walked off to look for America.” – Paul Simon Those are the first few lines of a memorable song, America, which tells a great story....

The essence of a bubble is that most market participants believe that something is of value when, in fact, it is not.  Back in the days of the dot-com bubble, for example, people thought that just having a website and a .com web address – like Pets.com – was valuable. ...

The clues of what you can be teaching the world are in your life experiences. Today a shared a post on Facebook which originally was supposed to just be a brief snapshot of how I help people create their own online courses and how I got there, but it turned...

Continuing our journey to the world's culture from different periods, we make a stop in Japan. Murasaki Shikibu is one of the pioneering Japanese writers. She was also a poet, diarist, and Lady of honor, and she is famous for her work "The Tale of Prince Genji." Murasaki Shikibu is...

Everybody has heard the story of Genkis Khan. It is a relatively modern example of Imperial colonialism, starting from a man of humble origin and ending up being one of the most influential leaders of the then-known world. Starting from the vast expanse of the Asian steppe, the Empire extended...