What Is the Future of Work?
Mother with baby working from home- Image by Standsome from Pixabay. The catastrophic impact that Covid-19 had on employees forced many skilled professionals to seek out opportunities online.
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Manchester United fans push to oust wealthy US shareholders. Last weekend the biggest match of the premier league season, Manchester United versus Liverpool, was postponed due to protests by the home fans in Manchester.
Read full storyCosmetic Surgery Is Not Always About Vanity
A discussion about human motivations for cosmetic surgery. Cosmetic SurgeonImage by Catalina Rojas from Pixabay. Plastic surgery can be misunderstood, especially by those not involved.
Read full storyDogs Are Online Consumers Too
Our two pups go nuts when a brown box is delivered. Our family Dog, Daphne, is a Trojan. A few years ago she gave birth to seven pups. From 1 am and 8 am on a random Tuesday morning in April 2019 seven new lives entered the world, one by one.
Read full storyHow eCommerce Supported Healthcare in Crisis
A discussion about the role that one industry played to help communities in need. In less than a month last year, the coronavirus pandemic overwhelmed the Italian healthcare system.
Read full storyHow to Develop a Business Model for Your Startup
A step-by-step guide to creating a business model canvas. Porter’s five forces model, a 40-year old business model developed by a revered business expert, Michael Porter, is a tool that I use today. Along with another contemporary model — the Business Model Canvas (BMC).
Read full storyHow a European Breakaway League Will Impact USA Soccer
USA soccer players will be caught in the cross-fire of European Football. Reports from the sporting arena indicate that a proposal to form a breakaway super football league in Europe is taking shape in the form of a new competition, with the biggest cohort coming from the UK Premier League.
Read full storyThe Positive and Negative Consequences of Charisma
A discussion about the pros and cons of charismatic leaders. Followers are more likely to attribute charisma to leaders who inspire them with emotional appeal than they are with leaders who deploy authority or even a participative decision-making process.
Read full storyBernie Madoff Dies in Prison
The man behind the world’s biggest-ever Ponzi scheme has passed away. Bernie Madoff was just over a decade into his 150-year prison sentence in the United States, for running the world’s largest Ponzi scheme, when he succumbed to ill health.
Read full storyThe Impact of the Hubris Leader
Hubris is a great sounding word, don’t you think?. Its meaning however is not that appealing. According to the dictionary hubris is:. Excessive pride or self-confidence. For context, one example that the dictionary uses to explain it is “the self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s”.
Read full storyIs Mastering Oneself Really True Power?
Lessons we can learn from thought leaders of the past. Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Read full storyHow to Drive Traffic to Your Online Store Without Spending a Fortune
Let’s be honest, driving traffic to an online store can be an expensive process for most. As if that’s not enough, it’s just as difficult to encourage online users to buy from you, as opposed to established Brands with deep pockets.
Read full story6 Important Attributes for a Coaching Culture in the Workplace
Mentorship enhances our ability to evolve and achieve. A coaching culture is an appealing ingredient that forms part of an organization’s broader culture. An ingredient that’s part of the recipe to enhance and inform an organization.
Read full storyThe Dark Side of Sport Is Not That Pretty
When the lights are out the ugly side of sport comes out to play. The tagline of the ’80s and ’90s was “Be Like Mike”, a reference to the NBA superstar regarded by most as the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan.
Read full storyWhy the Buckeye State Is the E-Commerce Capital
A spotlight on Ohio's emerging economic-sector dominance. As consumers, we rarely stop and think about e-commerce having a physical footprint. That's the magic behind online retailing, that we can buy from anywhere, at any time.
Read full storyDo We Know How To Lead Tomorrow?
To appreciate how to "lead tomorrow" the next generation must reflect on past leadership lessons for. I’m beginning to wonder — what lessons will our generation leave behind, lessons that the next generation can benefit from, or even consider.
Read full story5 Reasons Why Salespeople Make Great Leaders
A discussion about two facts: leaders sell and sales lead. A career in sales can feel like you’re forever spending your time chasing prospects, leads, deals, and quotas. But the skills that sales professionals learn are a perfect fit for successful leadership roles in the future.
Read full storyMarketing and Gender Have a Love-Hate Relationship
An image-led article to illustrate past gender-biased adverts. ender stereotypes have been ever-present in marketing adverts since the dawn of time. The fact is, “harmful gender stereotypes” restrict “choices, aspirations, and opportunities of children, young people, and adults.” (ASA)
Read full storyTacit knowledge for leaders of tomorrow
the smart-economy, traditional assets and resources of production like land, labour, and capital, are fast “becoming secondary to knowledge” (Drucker, 1993). In the digital world, knowledge “within an organization is frequently identified as the main source of its competitive advantage” (Philips, 2006).
Read full storySimplicity is the name of the ballgame
Design is the essence of creativity. Designers are those people driven by a vision or inspired by trying to solve a problem. Design thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. Involving five phases—Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test—it is most useful to tackle problems that are ill-defined or unknown.
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