Last updated: 20 August 2019
“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” – Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx The challenge of creating any business, especially your first one, is real. Fears, doubts and questions such as: “Where do I start?” “Will I fail?” and READ MORE
Last updated: 20 August 2019
There’s a saying that the entrepreneurial spirit can’t be learned. That tomorrow’s entrepreneurs are born, not raised. But when you think about it, this idea is completely flawed. It’s like saying if your mother language is English, you would never be able to wrap your head (and tongue) around a difficult language such as Polish. READ MORE
Last updated: 19 October 2015
It’s said a billion dollars went through his crack cocaine racket when he was running the show. So it’s fair to say he knows a thing or two about running a successful business – albeit an illegal one. And while you might not necessarily associate business principles such as: honesty, not making things all about READ MORE
Last updated: 19 October 2015
When a significant economic downturn like the Great Recession comes along, everyone expects to do a bit of belt-tightening, and it’s frustrating when some not only fail to play their part, but go in the exact opposite direction. In the U.S., financial companies recklessly engaged in excessively risky ventures, many of which went bad. The READ MORE
Last updated: 10 August 2018
As a leader, your to-do list never seems to end. With essential things like running a business, managing staff and keeping the books afloat dominating most of your time… it’s no wonder activities that fall more into the “leisure” basket fall by the wayside. And one of the most common, yet important “leisure” activities leaders READ MORE
Last updated: 19 October 2015
When most countries wax eloquent about their founding fathers, they’re talking about a whole group of people who played a vital role in the building of a nation. In the case of Singapore, there’s only one founding father of which to speak, and he died on Monday March 23, 2015. Lee Kuan Yew, commonly referred READ MORE
