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“Leadership is doing the right things; management is doing things right.” – Peter Drucker Although leadership and management are intermingled terminologies,...
We often hear the words leader and manager substituted for each other. Or they are compared with the leader coming out in a much more positive light than a manager. Are they different? Absolutely! Is one better than the other? Absolutely not! To effectively run a business, we need to...
What to do when you are rich and bored? You are successful. You worked hard for years with laser focus...
Here’s What You Could Do to Build a Five-Star Team: It’s often hard to believe that behind the largest corporations...
Every organisation regardless of size, sector or competitive position in the marketplace, has a set of value statements. These values always include openness, honesty and integrity. The idea is that organisations look to their leaders and employees to embody these values and display these attributes in their everyday behaviour. If...
As my regular readers know, I occasionally inject a “non-finance” article into the world that is The Retirement Manifesto. It’s...
There’s a special place at the end of my road – a place where time stands still. Or does it?...
Growing attention has been paid to the knowledge economy in today’s business environments, where the foundations of economy are largely based on creating and trading knowledge. It is believed that the knowledge economy is facilitated by a transformation of top management executives’ approach to managing human assets as knowledge holders....
In a world where leadership is one of the most important roles to be undertaken, it is essential that employees...
Winston Churchill once said that “Failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” The message is...
How to retain customers who are thinking of leaving. In this economy, growing your business can create challenges. The cost of doing business, whether it is to outsource your solution or manage internally, continues to escalate. Many small business owners are not fully aware of the cost to acquire and...
Do you ever get nervous before a sales presentation or a job interview? If so, this experience may help you...
Discover the best time to reinvent yourself in business and life. My nephew is a proud Millennial and one day...
5 ways to power-up your business success the Sweta Patel way. Being a startup founder isn’t easy, and one of the big challenges is setting the tone for your company culture. It’s especially hard to stay cool and calm when you are forced to juggle all aspects of your business....
Quick Google searches, scans of online content, tweets and texts: The technology that gives us easy access to information can...
“No one can fool me!” could be something you say, honoured of being so savy. This should pop your bubble: If...
Only 44% of Americans take vacations in a given year. What’s wrong with the other 56%? Today’s post from The Retirement Manifesto will look at the topic of vacation. In particular, why folks don’t take them, and why they should. For a post on September, the typical “end of vacation”...
My determination to write this post was for the most part, whilst not exclusively, unconscious. My aim here is to...
On the immensely popular HBO show Silicon Valley, there’s a scene in the first season that is a very poignant...
