Businesses Need to Manage People Carefully
In the last two decades, turbulent changes in the business environment has reignited a focus on creativity. Quite rightly so, however, this “creativity”, doesn’t always get channelled into the right department. Typically, businesses come up with ways to creatively cut their overhead costs without really…
The First Curve is the Steepest-why Companies Need to Place More Trust in Their Right Brained Colleagues
The business case for creativity isn’t a new idea. Time after time, companies can accrue significant business benefits by making giant leaps toward creativity. To thrive, businesses need to envision their future in a way that doesn’t resemble their current operations for surely, these times…
Strum Your Experimentative Chords, Rock Them like Queen!
Very few bands divide opinions among music critics on their identity. Even fewer, possess that perfect pitch tone to define music genres. Queen, one of the most celebrated rock bands in the world, was one of the few rock bands that was so inventive that…
5 Science-Backed Tricks That Will Keep You Going
We have had moments where we would get a dozen cup of coffee to keep us on the track to finish what we started. We are pushing ourselves to the limit. Some might get discouraged when their ideas are rejected or being dismissed from a…
Overcome Your Creative Block
The thinking process is the continuous flow of creative juices and everyone will experience it. Bill Gates used to rock in his chair after a long hour of programming to get rid of mental block and refocus. Famous artists such as Pablo Picasso experienced emotional…
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Beyond the Paycheck
Employees are the backbone of a company. This may sound cliché, but a good pay does not secure a dedicated employee to their seats. Money is a primary extrinsic motivation for employees; they are expected to be paid accordingly after contributing to the company’s increasing…
The “Jobs” Secret Ingredients
Why Steve Jobs? When Apple releases its new generation of devices, a keynote presentation with less text, highly visual with huge pictures has been the standard of an ideal presentation. Is it really? Straight to the real deal, Steve Jobs actually has the power as…
Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer
Women are often never credited for their contribution in fields such as science and technology. Victorian society demanded young ladies to be meek and mild-mannered, virtuous and obedient. Not Lovelace! She was a contradiction with a passion for poetry and mathematics. An unlikely combination,…
Fight Your Self-doubt
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare We will arrive at that one point where we doubt everything that has been going on in our life. We carry it around, constantly…
A New Kind of Normal with Code of Origin
With the Movement Control Order in place, Malaysians under quarantine are spending time online now more than ever. In an effort to remain connected to the outside world, people from all walks of life are glued to digital media while working from home, and staying…
Solving the Society’s Problems is Now Businesses’ Business
In an article published by Reuters back in April, it was reported that as businesses with a mission to do good become increasingly trendy, social entrepreneurs said they were finding it harder than ever to tackle one of their major problems—explaining what they do. In…