Articles
- Building a Creative Business Culture
Published PDF
Success in business today demands constant innovation. Businesses are continuously surveying the competitive landscape in search of any way to carve out their own unique niche.
- Defining Yourself Published PDF
Picture this; you are in an elevator with a person whom you have respected and admired for a very long time and you have twenty seconds before you get off at your floor. This person in the elevator turns to you and says, "So, tell me a bit about yourself." What do you say?
- 4 ˝ Stages of Organizational Success Published PDF
There, you've done it! Your office is cleaned, you have replied to all of your emails and your presentation set for next week is finished five days ahead of time. In addition, you now have plenty of time to spend with your family. Sound familiar? ...Give me a break!
- How to Fail Your Way to Success Published PDF
Have a good look at the last five years of your life and pay particular attention to your successes and failures. Would your successes really have existed without your failures?
- Six Life Lessons I Learned in Vegas
When it comes to summer travelling, my wife and I have nomadic genes. In the summer of 2004 we started our travels intending to go to a theme park in Massachusetts and ended up in Orlando (a total of 12,000km roundtrip).
- Making Sense of Humour in the Workplace Published PDF
Well, what's so funny about work and why should I be concerned about it? If you are looking to strengthen your career opportunities then exercising your funny bone may be just the route to take.
- The Art of Professionalism: Learning the Right Way to Get Ahead Published PDF
Professionalism is like beauty; it's hard to define but people know it when they see it.
- The Secrets of Effective Decision-Making Published PDF
What is the main characteristic of successful people? It certainly isn't age or experience (Bill Gates had neither when he started). What it comes down to is their masterful ability to make smart, swift decisions day in and day out.
- The Customer Rules:
Surviving & Thriving in the New Customer-Driven World Published PDF
Remember when the secret to satisfying customers was the simple understanding that the customer was always right?
- The Fascination of Sport
In the inaugural issue of this unique sports publication, it seems only appropriate to examine sport in a different manner. More specifically, to ask the question, "What is it about a sport that makes it so popular?"
- Are You a Twenty Percenter?
Recently, a Gallup Poll asked more than 1.7 million employees in 101 companies from 63 countries the following question; "At work do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?". Only 20 percent of employees working in the organizations they surveyed felt that their strengths were in play every day. Where do you fit in here?
- The Times They are a Changin'
An Investigation of Five Future Trends Published PDF
There's something about the beginning of a new year that makes us stop and think about where we are, where we have been and where we are going.
- The Business of Global Greening: How Technology and Business are Saving the Planet Published PDF
Imagine a massive piece of glacial ice bigger than the area of Manhattan
Island (61 sq km) breaking off from its main ice shelf and crashing down into the sea...
- The Changing Face of Charity Published PDF
Philanthropy today has become quite fashionable among big businesses
and wealthy individuals. It seems that everyone is anxious to give a helping hand and there appears to be no sign of this trend slowing down. So what is it that makes philanthropy so popular now as compared to even just ten years ago?
- Web 2.0: Business In A Connected World Published PDF
Welcome to a new internet revolution known as Web 2.0. This internet renaissance uses powerful on-line based services as platforms to effectively and efficiently connect people throughout the world. The resulting new social networking phenomenon has provided a significant swing of power (political, consumer, etc.) back to the people.
- Searching for a Needle of Knowledge in an Information Haystack Published PDF
We are drowning in information. Traditionally, the
culprits have always been television, radio and
print media. More recently, we have been wrestling the
Internet (blogs, social networking, instant messaging etc.),
email, PDAs and cell phones. There does not seem to be
anywhere left to hide.
- The Power of Design Published PDF
Many people tend to think of design simply
in terms of ideas such as high fashion,
architecture and the visual arts.
However, design goes far beyond these concepts
to permeate everyone’s daily lives.
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