Management & Strategy
How to become a good mentor for your trainee - 06/04/2018
Many companies hire trainees who want to gain valuable practical experience. How to provide them with good practice? After all, you are expected to like them, because at the end of the practice he will return to the university and talk about how he spent the summer with your company. This can significantly affect the organization's ability to hire graduates for a full day. And the fact that you...
Five steps to restrain emotions when making difficult decisions - 05/28/2018
The skill of managing emotions allows a person, team or organization to make decisions using their intellect, and direct emotions to support and stimulate the mental work. In a book Key Coaching Models, Stephen Gribben tells how to properly manage emotions in order to get the best results. Let's start! The five steps to managing emotions described below have been adapted on the basis of the...
Five life hacks to be more productive - 05/04/2018
An unproductive person will not survive in business, because less productivity means less money. Such a man needs to spend much more time and effort to achieve the same results than an effective person does. What does it mean to be productive? Is it about working more or increasing resources? No, it means getting more by spending the same amount of energy. That is, we can work only a couple of...
Why is Jan Koum leaving Facebook? - 05/02/2018
The US media write that Jan Koum, founder of WhatsApp messenger, left Facebook because of a conflict with the leadership of the most popular social network in the world. Mr. Koum expressed disagreement with Facebook's policy regarding WhatsApp users, namely, use of their personal data for advertisers and attempts to weaken the system of end-to-end message encryption in the messenger. Jan Koum...
Easy peasy: How to make your business and private life simpler - 04/27/2018
People dream that everything was simple. For example, the simpler your mobile application or terms of your user agreement, the more likely you achieve success. Here are some tips on this topic. Why we like to make things complicated People love simplicity. Students want to learn without effort. Adults want to learn easy foreign languages. And almost everyone likes to do simple exercises, like...
Nine tips for a project manager - 04/18/2018
A right strategy will help a newcomer to uncover key concepts, answer typical questions and cope with the chaos surrounding many projects. Here are nine tips for inexperienced project managers. Planning together One of the common mistakes of young project managers is that they try to plan everything by themselves. For this reason, the team members are not always ready to accept their plans....
BCG: Corporate banks have only two to three years to rethink their business - 04/12/2018
According to a new report of The Boston Consulting Group, almost half of corporate banks are now losing profits. The researchers believe that only those who carry out a complex digital transformation of their operations will be able to survive. It is noted that corporate banks have only two to three years to occupy their niches, until a competitive environment is formed. It follows from the...
BCG finds a formula for a long and happy business life - 04/09/2018
The BCG Henderson Institute found what companies should do to remain viable in the long term. Experts note that large and successful firms that have long and firmly held leadership positions on the market are now the most vulnerable. Resting on your laurels is the right road to ruin In the study on preserving viability of companies, experts note that "what previously helped organizations...
The Platform Revolution: How Alibaba conquered the global market - 04/05/2018
Networked markets are changing the economy and the world around us. One of the successful examples of the modern platform is the Chinese company Alibaba, which in 2014 held the largest ever public offering of shares. Let's find out how the Chinese giant managed to conquer the international market in a short time. Before the IPO, many Westerners who did not follow the e-commerce world had never...
How to spark up creative business thinking - 03/29/2018
It is not easy to wake up your creativity to come up with business ideas. Let’s take a look at seven features of creative thinking. 1. Creative thinking is very social Just like an artist, and a business person can come up with a wonderful idea. However, creativity always requires interaction with other people. In most cases, implementation of the idea will require cooperation, and not with...
