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Continue reading →: Intuition Or Data, How Best Should Someone Make Decisions?
There is an analytical push that decisions should be evidence based. That’s probably why Math is such an important ingredient of teaching in business schools, because it will help students become more analytical. That’s why even though one would have expected business experience to be the factor for admission in…
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Continue reading →: College Campus Protests- How Should Employers Approach it?
The University of Columbia cancelled the 2024 university wide commencement ceremony because of the continuing protests against the university administration for investing the college endowment in Israel backed firms and weapons manufacturing. Students and faculty demand a divestment from these two entities. Campus protests have always been a Hallmark of…
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Continue reading →: Will A Third Party Candidate Upset This Election?
Never since Ross Perot ran for the Presidency in 1992 as a third party candidate has the prospect of a third party candidate loomed so large. Both main party candidates, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are hugely unpopular and this is why there could be an opening for a Third…
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Continue reading →: If We Treated A Company As A Drug Patent And Made It Generic, It would Cede Shares To Workers.
The genius invention of modern times is when the company was declared a separate legal entity from its owners. That meant it could sue, it could own property, it could enter into enforceable contracts, and generally, a person could only lose his assets to the extent of his investments in…
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Continue reading →: Is Selecting A Career Based On Passion Overrated?
We’ve all heard of this career advice that select a career not based on money and how much you will earn, but based on passion. That if you select a career that you are passionate about, you will never have to work a day in your life. But how practical…
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Continue reading →: Just How Does Trump Navigate The Race Rhetoric?
Donald Trump is ahead in the polls nationally and in key swing states, and likely could be the first President since Grover Cleveland in 1888 to have two non consecutive terms in the White House. Trump seems to be leading on many fronts but then, racial rhetoric is what he’s…
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Continue reading →: Just How Do You Get Into Harvard As An Average Student?
We all have this stereotype of Harvard as a place that admits only geniuses. But then, what if you are an average student, what’s the path to Harvard? Is it even possible? A former Harvard student, Ed Magema has written a book of how to get into Harvard even as…
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Continue reading →: Is Freelancing, Subcontracting, Gig Working And Employment Merging?
If you have been following business school case studies, one of the most consistent case studies is whether Uber drivers are employees or subcontractors. To state governments and labour unions, then Uber drivers are employees since they are restricted a lot in their job. That is they get to work…
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Continue reading →: Hard Technical Skills Or Soft Skills- What’s Important To Success On The Job?
Hard technical skills are the skills you need to perform the job, for instance, designing a machine, or having a software programming knowledge that will help you design websites for clients. But then, there are soft skills, which essentially is how you work with people. How are you able to…
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Continue reading →: Why Are Internal Candidates Not Often Promoted To Top Positions?
A Stanford daily article has a story on the lack of morale in the admissions office, that is low pay and opportunities for advancement such that the philosophy is often to move out in order to move up. But increasingly, this is the situation globally, not just at the Stanford…
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Continue reading →: Why College Admissions Has Become A High Stakes Game.
College Admissions is now a high stakes game. As the admissions rates to the top American colleges gets even more stiffer, more and more students are being rejected from the top colleges, ostensibly the Uber private colleges such as Williams and Middlebury, flagship state universities such as UTexas Austin, Michigan…
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Continue reading →: How Will Campus Protests Affect The November Election?
A lot of college campuses have had protests on the ongoing Israel Hamas war, with many students calling for their college endowment funds to divest from Israel backed firms and weapons manufacturing. The history of American colleges is littered with a fight for several causes. For instance, in the 1960s,…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes, The Best Wins Are By Accident.
My father, now late, often said the way he found himself as a Math and Physics teacher is that he had visited his uncle who then asked him to fill out some forms to a teacher training college, and that’s how he ended up becoming a teacher, when earlier on…
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Continue reading →: Why Do Founders Hold Onto So Little Of Their Companies?
The seven founders of Infosys, the Indian software giant, together hold just about 3 percent of the company. That is just 0.4 percent for each of those founders. Jerry Yang, cofounder of Yahoo, holds just 2 percent of the company. If you hold onto more than ten percent of your…
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Continue reading →: Is There A Degree Saturation?
Is it that there are too many degrees being churned out, or merely that not enough jobs are being created? A report by PWC shows that whereas graduates are complaining of an acute lack of jobs, employers on the other hand are complaining that there is no talent to fill…
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Continue reading →: A Running Mate Should Balance Off The Skills Of The Presidential Candidate.
We often think of a President selecting a running mate as an attempt to balance off a certain demographic. Now, Trump is reported to be gaining among black voters, and it is reported that if he just gains 30 percent of the black vote, the White House would be his…
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Continue reading →: Number Of H1-B Visa Skilled American Workers Applications Fall 40%.
The number of H1-B Visa skilled worker applications to work in America dropped by 40 percent over the last year. The H1-B Visa is how foreign skilled workers get to work in America. Major companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft usually snap up the visas very fast. It’s especially instrumental…
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Continue reading →: Olympic Gold Medalists To Receive Cash Prize of $50,000. How Important Is Money For Success?
According to a show by the authoritative Indian commentator Palki Sharma, Olympic gold medalists are set to receive $50,000 cash prize in the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics, whereas previously they did not get any prize money, only gold medals and a flower as a token of appreciation. Silver and bronze…
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Continue reading →: Google Lays Off A Whole Python Team, How Acute Will AI Job Losses Be?
It appears that Google has laid off a whole python programming staff, showing that language models are being replaced by AI. That shows you basic tasks will be automated, and so, be prepared to have your job replaced if you don’t upgrade your skills. Think of the way the tractor…
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Continue reading →: In Light Of College Budget Cuts, What’s The Future Of The Arts And Humanities?
You’ve heard of the phrase, as an English major, aren’t you just going to become a teacher? What will a history major help you with? Isn’t it useless to study the arts and humanities? In 2014, the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said that studying the arts was useless, as it…
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Continue reading →: Is Political Activism Good For A Resume?
College students are very young and impressionable. That’s why they take up causes they truly believe in, even if there is no pay. For instance, college students in the United States have protested for various causes that they considered to be the deep issues of the day. For instance, the…
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Continue reading →: Why Is Consulting Done By Freshly Minted College Grads?
Consulting and finance is one of the top career choices for students in elite American and global colleges. At UPenn for instance, the entire Wharton school of finance class almost exclusively heads to work in the consulting and finance world. At Oxford university, the politics, philosophy and Economics program is…
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Continue reading →: What Do US Campus Protests Mean For Future Employers?
The four passion points are politics, religion, sports, and entertainment. As you might have seen in news, there are a lot of campus protests in the US. How should the business community approach these protests? The college students, and some outsiders, are protesting that their college endowments divest from Israel…
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Continue reading →: For Newspapers To Survive, They Have To Sell Insights.
Almost everyone is predicting that newspapers are going the dinosaur way, that is become extinct very soon. For instance, to insure his other businesses, News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch spinned off the print division from the broadcast division. News corporation is the parent company of Fox News, Wall Street Journal…
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Continue reading →: The Best Jobs Are Interdisciplinary.
Often, colleges and universities have this phrase which they often like to throw around everytime. That is the major or degree is interdisciplinary, that it is a combination of the arts and the sciences of computer science and electrical engineering for instance, or history and literature. Just as colleges love…
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Continue reading →: How Do You Derive Happiness From Your Job?
It’s said about 80 percent of workers in the world are in jobs they hate. That is they will give anything not to wake up at 5AM for the morning rush to the office, or experience Monday Blues after a long eventful weekend. Which is why you should be taking…
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Continue reading →: As We Treat Customers As King, Let’s Treat Employees As Kingmakers.
Every business proclaims that our employees are our greatest asset. But do they live up to its billing? Are employees really treated well by companies, the same companies that say customer is king and hold a candle to them. The famed industrialist Henry Ford wanted to make a car that…
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Continue reading →: The Power Of Entrepreneurs In Reshaping Our World.
It is often that we think politicians will solve our toughest challenges. That they will help steer America and the world towards a better world. There has never been a time when the world has needed entrepreneurs to step up as at present. Business leaders know where the shoe pinches…
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Continue reading →: In The Age Of Streaming, What’s The Future of The Entertainment Business?
These days, when an artiste releases a song, all they have to do is just upload it on their YouTube channel, and voila, the fans have the music. That’s how transformative the power of online streaming is. Or you could upload it on Spotify, and other online music streaming platforms.…
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Continue reading →: Why Do Nice Employees Finish Last In The Office?
You’ve often heard of the phrase that nice guys finish last. That is if in relationships, you have a woman go through all the bad boyfriends during her heydeys who suck off her juices and then when she is about to get married, now look for a clean guy ready…
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Continue reading →: Let’s Treat Employers Like Clients.
It’s amazing how many workers treat their employers like their parents. That is as long as you give certain number of hours to the company, then you expect certain gifts from the company. For instance that you expect a near long term employment that will somehow just magically ensure you…
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Continue reading →: The Case For Skills Based Hiring.
Various people are questioning the value of college degrees. For instance, Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, X, and Space X, says one doesn’t need a college degree, maybe even a high school diploma to do well in life. Former secretary of state Condoleeza Rice says that may be we…
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Continue reading →: Should You Quit Your 9 to 5 Job For Your Talent And Passions?
As I have outlined in my book, “What Goes Into Choosing A Great Career?”, a great career is an intersection of what you are good at, your abilities, what you love doing, your passions, and the job market demand for your skill, that’s the salary, pay and compensation for your…
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Continue reading →: What If We Were Paid Salaries Daily So We Think Like Entrepreneurs?
A businessman for the most part doesn’t have any typical day. If for instance you are running a restaurant, the day you expect to be a slow day is exactly the day you get tonnes of customers. And the day you expect tonnes of customers is exactly the day you…
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Continue reading →: If You Cannot Give An Elevator Pitch Of Your Business, There’s A Problem.
The analogy of the elevator pitch is that if you met someone important in an elevator and you had 30 seconds to explain to them your business idea, would they grasp it? That’s why you need to reduce your business idea to the basic fundamentals. Can you explain it to…
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Continue reading →: PWC Australia Becomes Smallest Of Big Four As Partners Shrink.
PWC Australia became the smallest of big four after seeing a shrinkage in the number of its partners. Usually, PWC has always been the elder brother of the big four and has global revenues of about $53 billion dollars, making it the biggest of the big four in terms of…
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Continue reading →: Every Entrepreneur Thinks Their Business Idea Is The Next Big Thing.
Why does every entrepreneur think that their business idea is the next big thing since sliced bread? Why doesn’t every entrepreneur not entertain the idea that their business could be mundane at best, or an epic failure at worst? Yes, it’s true that as a founder, you need to be…
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Continue reading →: The Business Plan Is Always Different From The Business On The Ground.
Every lender and potential investor usually requires a business plan from the aspiring entrepreneur. But then, as an entrepreneur starts out their business, they realize that the business plan is always not enforceable on the ground. That they often need more startup capital. That they need more time to realize…
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Continue reading →: Is The Harvard Bombshell Still Rife In Light Of Its Leadership Turmoil?
You could just be as smart and attend any respectable college, but it is Harvard that is thought to be the university of choice for the world’s best and brightest students. Why is it that when you mention you attended, or you attend Harvard, suddenly everyone thinks that you are…
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Continue reading →: Starting A Business Is Like Having A Baby, It Requires All Your Energies.
A business is literally your new born baby. It can’t talk. It can’t feed itself. It can’t walk. It depends on you for everything. That’s why it needs all your energies. The mistake most people make is to assume that the business will be on its own two feet soon…
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Continue reading →: Instead Of Baby Showers, Let’s Have Small Business Showers.
If in the place of baby showers, what if we held small business showers? That’s if you want to start a business, then your friends and loved ones come over, they bring gifts such as office chairs, office desks, pens, invoices, and even become the first customers? Won’t that just…
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Continue reading →: How Do You Beat Monday Blues In The Office?
How do you beat Monday Blues, that is as Mondays are usually known as slow days in which someone has had a great weekend and therefore as they come back to the office, they still have hangover of the weekend? So, how do you handle Mondays? First of all, are…
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Continue reading →: What Does Harvard Leadership Turmoil Mean?
Harvard, and quite frankly elite American colleges, have been engrossed in a leadership crisis ever since a group of Harvard students signed a letter denouncing Israel for the Hamas attacks on October 7. A few months after that, then President of Harvard Claudine Gay was summoned by Congress to testify…
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Continue reading →: How Should An Entrepreneur Pay Themselves?
Too often, an entrepreneur often forgets about themselves and dedicates themselves wholly to their business. They give up their entire lives to see the business flourish. The business is like their baby literally, and so they want to see it grow to meaningful success before it can stand on its…
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Continue reading →: Delegating Is About Building Systems And Structures For The Business.
Do you know why family businesses collapse with the death of the founder? It is because the founders did literally everything. They performed HR roles, operation roles, production roles, strategizing roles in essence the whole business depended on them. But think of companies. They are able to outlive their founders…
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Continue reading →: Just How Long Should You Micro Manage Your Business?
When starting a business, you are practically the one who does everything. You are the product manager. You are the marketing and sales person. You are the human resources manager. You are the operations manager. Basically, everything revolves around you. Then the business starts making initial sales and gradually, you…
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Continue reading →: Why Is College Admissions Such A High Stakes Game?
Almost all colleges released their admissions results in late March. Now students have until May I to commit to a college of their choice, which means they will forfeit all the other colleges they have been admitted to. For those students that have been admitted to all the eight Ivies,…
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Continue reading →: Small Businesses Have Microfinance, Large Businesses Have Banks, Medium High Growth Businesses Are Left Behind.
Banking is one of the innovations of capitalism. That is take depositors money of savings and lend it to companies at a good enough rate so they can finance and expand their business operations. It’s why big businesses are able to borrow so much and grow their capital and finance.…
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Continue reading →: Why Can’t Women Both Secure The Corporate Bag As Well As Be Great Home Makers?
It appears that for women, it’s usually one or the other. Either be a star in the corporate world, and be a power broker at that, and see their homemaking fail, maybe a divorced family, unruly or underperforming kids, a broken home of sorts. Or on the other hand, women…
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Continue reading →: Just How Much Value Is Housework?
In many divorce proceedings across many countries today, housework is counted as a contribution to wealth of the household. Therefore, a woman who stayed at home to raise the kids can argue before a divorce court that she for instance contributed to the multi millions wealth of the family and…
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Continue reading →: Should You Date Your Workmate- Only Across Authority Line.
There are roughly equal number of women and men in the workplace, at least in the developed countries. In the poor and developing countries, still more women are either housewives doing the homemaking roles of raising children, while their husbands work, or alternatively in such countries, the women are in…
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Continue reading →: What Makes For A Great Employer?
When deciding which company to work for, what comes up first? Is it the reputation of the company, is it the high salaries and even stock options, is it the work life balance? Let’s unpack this. The number one issue is the salary that the company is going to pay…
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Continue reading →: Why Are Some Startups Valued So Highly?
So, Tesla has only produced three million cars, yet it’s valued at about $700 billion dollars whereas Toyota which produces ten million cars annually is valued at a paltry $285 billion dollars, just a third of Tesla. The argument is that Tesla will be able to control so much of…
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Continue reading →: Wealth These Days Is Intangible Ideas- Peter Drucker Predicted This.
Peter Drucker the late great management theorist predicted that in future, wealth will not be physical assets such as gold and diamonds but in form of intangible ideas. Think of the great companies of today. Microsoft, Google for instance, they are all ideas and information merchants. Therefore the countries that…
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Continue reading →: Why Are Arts And Humanities Degrees Being Phased Out?
So, recently Princeton University students selected their degree majors and it turns out that six of the top ten majors they selected were bachelor of science degrees. The most selected major was bachelor of science in economics, principally because Princeton does not have a business school and so studying economics…
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Continue reading →: Is One Great Employee Greater Than A Thousand Average Ones?
A contributor to the Harvard Business Review and a cofounder of Fast Company magazine Bill Taylor wrote an article that one great programmer is greater than a thousand average ones to which they replied that one Shakespeare is definitely greater than a thousand Bill Taylors. Just what is the essence…
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Continue reading →: Why Do Engineers Make Great CEOs?
It appears that one of the top degrees to be a CEO is an engineering degree, whether be it civil, electrical or mechanical engineering. Engineering is an intensely mathematical and quantitative field, and it appears this helps build an analytical mindset in the students. An engineering graduate could well understand…
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Continue reading →: What’s The Most Important Skill For A Founder?
It’s often said that venture capital firms invest in founders, they don’t invest in the idea. That is, the ability of the entrepreneur is much more important in scaling an enterprise than the business idea itself. That is a mercurial founder can take the most mundane of ideas and scale…
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Continue reading →: Just How Did Employee Loyalty Disappear?
In the olden days it used to be that you worked for one company all your life, then you retired with a handshake and pension. But that loyalty seems to have gone today, and these days employees spend an average of just four or five years in a job, and…
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Continue reading →: What’s The Sure Path To The CEO Corner Office?
Let’s state first things first. Not everyone wants to be a CEO. It’s not a must that you attain the position of a CEO as you exit the company. In fact, for some positions, people would rather prefer that they remain at their jobs rather than take on administrative responsibilities.…
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Continue reading →: Do Elite Colleges Rotate Students Amongst Themselves In Graduate Application?
It appears that for you to get into a postgraduate program at Princeton, you need to have attended an undergraduate program at Harvard, Yale, MIT and caliber institutions. For you to get into a postgraduate program at Harvard, then you also need to have attended an undergraduate program at a…
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Continue reading →: The Power Of Stories In Crafting Powerful Business Narratives.
While the general reader newspapers used to get the most number of readers during the print era, in the era of digital subscriptions, it is business media that is getting the most paid subscribers. That means there is an inherent value that readers get from reading business insights, and it’s…
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Continue reading →: Should We Patent Business Ideas Just Like Technology Inventions?
In an economics textbook, the author suggests that maybe we should patent business ideas for say like five or ten years, so that copycats don’t come to imitate a business idea that someone has spent years working on, and it appears it splits opinion right down the middle. First of…
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Continue reading →: Is Being First In The Market A Good Or A Bad Thing?
One of the attributes of great entrepreneurs is to see opportunities whereas others only see darkness. To spot light where others only see darkness. That is to be the first in the market. This is both a good and a bad thing. A good thing that you will reap all…
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Continue reading →: Great Founders Can Take Ridiculously Simple Ideas And Make Fortunes Out Of It.
It is often said that the success of an enterprise has more to do with the abilities of the founder than the business idea itself. That is a great founder can take a ridiculously simple idea and turn it into a fortune making empire, and just as conversely, a mediocre…
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Continue reading →: Why Is It Women Apply For Jobs Only When They Meet 100 Percent Of The Job Requirements?
Why is it that women apply for jobs only when they meet 100 percent of the job requirements but men apply for jobs even when they meet just 50 percent of the job requirements? It could be to do with that women are judged on accomplishments, and men on potential.…
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Continue reading →: Why Are Women Judged On Their Accomplishments But Men On Their Potential?
Often, women are judged based on what they have been able to accomplish, but men are judged not by that, but by their potential. Why is that? Often, women do outperform men both in high school and in college, they do hold more college degrees, and yet at the top…
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Continue reading →: We Should Not Tier American Colleges.
If America cared about equality of opportunity, no college would be deemed as Ivy League, another one a safety school, and others as complete non entities. Just last month, students received college admission decisions in which they have till May 1 to commit to a college. Why is the American…
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Continue reading →: Social Entrepreneurs Combine The Best of Capitalism And Socialism.
There is a conflicting school of thought as regards both capitalism and socialism. Capitalism is about increasing the size of the cake, by identifying gaps in the market, attempting plug that gap, and then doing everything possible in order that you bring the product to the market. In the process,…
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Continue reading →: Why Are Indians So Successful In Corporate America?
An Indian publication had a screaming headline “India’s Greatest Export-CEOs”. It appears that if you want an American or global company for that matter to be well run, just appoint an Indian Origin CEO. The CEO of Google Sundar Pichai is an Indian as well as the CEO of Microsoft…
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Continue reading →: Disruptive Innovation Is How Big Companies Get Taken Down.
Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen coined the term disruptive innovation to allude to a newbie startup noticing a gap in the market and then slowly working its way to fill that market gap until it becomes a dominant player in the market, only for another nimble startup to also…
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Continue reading →: Selling Is The Most Important Skill A Founder Could Have.
Most founders are in product development. They certainly have a clear vision of the product they want to bring to the market. They have mostly worked on the craft for long, and probably even have began making initial sales, and that’s why they attract an interest from VCs early on.…
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Continue reading →: Customers Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Brands.
There are so many products that customers could choose from. But why is it that customers only choose certain products? It’s because they believe that’s the most valuable product. As a business owner or marketing manager, just remember that customers don’t buy products, they buy brands. So, for instance, the…
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Continue reading →: Not Marketing Is Like Winking At Someone In The Dark, They’ll Never Notice.
In the olden days, you could sell your product without even marketing. You just had to have a great product, and it would all sell by itself. But that’s not so these days. You just have to have an effective marketing strategy if you are to sell your product these…
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Continue reading →: Mitt Romney Proposed As A Good Fit For Harvard’s Next President In A Washington Post Oped.
There is no doubt that Harvard considers itself as the leader of higher education in America and the world. But the university has faced a crisis for the last six months, ever since a group of Harvard students signed a letter blaming Israel for the Hamas attacks. The Presidents of…
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Continue reading →: The Startup Act Could Help More Founders Launch Their Ideas.
A number of countries, Rwanda and Italy, passed the startup act. That is as a founder is launching their business, they get paid a monthly salary for say like two or three years when the startup will be on its own two feet. This is because as most founders are…
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Continue reading →: Is The Creative Genius Under Siege As The Engine Of Economic Growth?
Whereas capitalism aims to bake the cake, socialism aims to distribute this cake more fairly. It’s why there is always a friction for the adherents of these two schools of thought. A capitalist always believes there isn’t enough to go round and so the cake must be baked more. On…
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Continue reading →: We Need Ground Rules For Freelancing, Gig Working And Subcontracting Jobs.
While the American company has benefitted the most from globalisation, the American worker is the most undercut by globalisation. Why for instance do many big tech companies report their profits in Ireland? One big tech company has a cash balance of $300 billion dollars, the size of fifteen Olympic size…
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Continue reading →: Jobs Where Juniors Earn More Than Their Seniors.
Usually, the assumption is that the more senior your role, the more pay you will get. But there are some jobs that defy that. In some jobs, a junior actually earns more than the senior, and here are some of those jobs. a) College Presidents. As universities turn from being…
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Continue reading →: Which Way American Colleges- Racial Or Viewpoint Diversity?
Four Harvard black women professors have been accused of plagiarism by right leaning platforms and there is a definite pattern to this. Activist Bill Ackman says there is a definite pattern to this, that DEI efforts are lowering the academic standards of this once glorious institution. The former President Claudine…
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Continue reading →: Starting A Business Should Not Be A Back Up Plan To Employment.
Starting a business should not be about it being a backup plan to employment but rather a way that you have decided that it’s going to really launch a product or service into the market. Don’t just start a business half heartedly that it is another income stream that you…
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Continue reading →: Is Making Money Really Only About Gut Instinct And Intuition?
There is a debate which never seems to be settled in the business media and business academia. That is whether the art of making money is inborn or can be taught. Is entrepreneurship inborn or can it be taught? Why do some people see light whereas others only see darkness…
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Continue reading →: The Age Of Mass Customisation Will Bring Back High Skilled Jobs To America.
We have been in the age of mass production for the last 200 years. That is you started with a whole big piece, then trimmed it down to a prototype, and then, you produced carbon copies of that in a fraction of a second. Henry Ford pioneered the concept of…
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Continue reading →: Why Do Most Family Businesses Fail After The Founder Dies?
Why do most family businesses fail after the founder dies? The founder began from scratch. They accumulated enough savings and acquired experience and skills that made them start a flourishing business. The wealth from the business allowed the founder’s family to live a relatively luxurious life. But then tragedy happens,…
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Continue reading →: How Can Introverts Succeed In The Workplace?
There are two broad categories of people. Extroverts and introverts. Extroverts get energy from lots of talking. From lots of schmoozing. They are the life of the party. They derive a lot of energy from the party atmosphere. Then there are introverts who like to keep to themselves. They are…
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Continue reading →: How Do We Bridge The Racial Innovation Gap?
The former MIT student body government President Danielle Geathers said she wanted to study patent law so as to bridge the racial innovation gap. She was by then a Mechanical engineering major that was fixated on studying patent law so as to make it easy for black innovators to be…
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Continue reading →: Should Colleges Train For The Mind Or For The Skill?
Some say the true value of college is that it transforms your mind. There is a reason why they say that the best years of your life are the college years. But really, as universities face financing gaps, what should be the real purpose of college education? A lot of…
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Continue reading →: Is The Public Editor Position Still Relevant?
A lot of media companies have an external relations kind of editor, that is the public editor. That is the person that laiases between the public and the media company. While normal editors are strewn between news editor, opinion editor, politics editor, lifestyle editor, entertainment and culture editor, the public…
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Continue reading →: How Should You Criticize?
There are all sorts of theories on how you should criticize. That is separate the person from the criticism. That is just like punishing a child, tackle the mistake, not the person. Don’t make it personal. There is the often given advice that first of all, offer praise to a…
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Continue reading →: Now It’s Illegal For An Employer To Transfer You Across Jobs Against Your Will.
A US court has ruled that it is illegal to transfer an employee across jobs, even if they maintain their pay grade and rank. Previously, most employees only sued if they were demoted unprocedurally, or due to sexual harassment. A surgeon had sued for being transferred to a different job…
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Continue reading →: Should We Have A Four Day Work Week?
People such as senator Bernie Sanders have been saying that we need a four day work week. That is have workers have more free time. That will allow workers to work on their side projects, and generally, that will mean that for companies that operate 24 hours around the cycle,…
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Continue reading →: What Qualities Does A Modern University President Need To Have?
Stanford just selected the son of former Yale President Richard Levin as the university’s next President. Harvard, Yale and UPenn are still in the process of selecting their next President, for Harvard and UPenn it’s about the disastrous performance in the questioning by Congress on whether calls for genocide against…