The average income of heads of the largest British companies was 145 times as many as the average salary of employees in 2017. In 2016, the figure was 128, in 2015 – 146, shows a study by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the analytical organization High Pay Center. An average employee will need 160 years to earn the amount that the company's CEO receives for a year....

Bo Burlingham, Editor-in-chief of the popular business magazine Inc., talked to founders of small but successful and outstanding companies, and described their experience in his book "Small giants." We chose seven tips that will be useful to both an experienced businessman and a beginning entrepreneur. For an excellent service, you need to demonstrate to your customers that you appreciate them...

Modern technologies allow us to perform tasks faster and more productively. At least, this may seem at first glance. Rolf Dobelli, an author of “The Art of the Good Life” book, described several examples when attempts to save time turned into a loss of this very time. How? Let’s see. The problem of presentations What did the presentations look like? Previously, it was just a report at a general...

The head of the largest in terms of assets the US bank JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, in aggregate earned $ 28.3 million in 2017 and once again became the highest paid top manager of Wall Street. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, his compensation grew by 3.9% compared to last year. CEO of Bank of America, Brian Moynihan, earned $ 21.3 million, including salaries and bonuses, in...

Today, millions of young men and women are entering the labor market. They are different from their parents and even from those who was born five to ten years earlier from them. It's about representatives of the generation Z, or, shortly Gen Z. Who are they? What are they striving for and how to work with them? There’s no large-scale researches, but David Stillman, author of “Gen Z @ Work. How...

Life is not easy. However, there are some simple but useful tricks for making it better and less stressful. Here are seven simple rules for every day. Loss and gain It is not possible to completely avoid time losses, but they still can be interpreted differently. Get your own box of mental tools, tips and tricks for different occasions, and you'll see: the cleverer you become when avoiding...

Doctor of Psychology Sean Young offers a harmonious theory of how to achieve success in any endeavor. The author's advice, based on a variety of research, is universal and can be applied in all spheres of life. So, what exactly needs to be done to stay motivated and achieve each of the set goals, be it diet compliance, getting rid of bad habits or increasing productivity at work? Here are some...

Patience of Facebook investors is wearing thin thanks to Facebook’s Head Mark Zuckerberg. A few days ago, six large shareholders, owning $ 3 billion in the company’s assets, conceived to dismiss the billionaire from his post. The discontent of investors has never been so high since the social network was launched back in 2012. Over the past year, they have seen a series of scandals with the...

Small goals lead to small victories, and small victories often trigger a positive behavioral spiral. Let's consider some interesting examples on this subject from the book "Switch" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. The placebo effect In 2007, scientists Ellen Langer and Alia Crum published a study on the attitude of hotel housekeepers to physical exercises. The topic doesn’t look very interesting,...