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…
Decision Precision
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…
Part 2: Overpopulation: Leveraging Entrepreneurs’ Greatest Asset
Overpopulation is the difference between overall birth and death rates in populations. As a rule of thumb, if the number of children born each year equals the number of adults that die, it is fair to deduce that the overall population size will stabilise. However,…
Future Workplace Realities
The workplace of the future will be an environment where technology advancement aids diverse working ability and skills. In short, the workplace of the future is all about the future of people. By creating an inclusive workplace—a team of people can thrive in and be…