Management & Strategy
Audi Supervisory Board appoints temporary head of the company - 06/19/2018
The Audi Supervisory Board suspended the authority of the company’s CEO Rupert Stadler and appointed Bram Schot as the interim head of the company. This is reported by Reuters, citing a source familiar with the situation. The managers of the Volkswagen concern have been negotiating for the second consecutive day to overcome the crisis in the Audi management. Audi CEO Rupert Stadler was detained...
Top five digital jobs - 06/14/2018
Many jobs that have become familiar to us emerged just a few years ago. However, many of them have already become popular and highly paid. Below are the top five popular professions of the digital era. E-learning Developer The dynamics of the modern life demands fast and inexpensive ways of transferring knowledge. Online education is rapidly developing, and E-Learning has already become...
How marketing turned green coffee into bestseller - 06/11/2018
Green coffee has become widely popular in recent years. Its sellers are receiving huge profits, and customers buy unroasted grains, regardless of taste qualities. Green coffee is taking over increasingly more countries: this product is sold on the Internet, appears in stores and even in particular cafes dedicated to a healthy lifestyle. As a rule, this sort of coffee is several times more...
How to become a good mentor for your trainee - 06/04/2018
Many companies hire trainees who want to gain valuable practical experience. How to provide them with good practice? After all, you are expected to like them, because at the end of the practice he will return to the university and talk about how he spent the summer with your company. This can significantly affect the organization's ability to hire graduates for a full day. And the fact that you...
Five steps to restrain emotions when making difficult decisions - 05/28/2018
The skill of managing emotions allows a person, team or organization to make decisions using their intellect, and direct emotions to support and stimulate the mental work. In a book Key Coaching Models, Stephen Gribben tells how to properly manage emotions in order to get the best results. Let's start! The five steps to managing emotions described below have been adapted on the basis of the...
Five life hacks to be more productive - 05/04/2018
An unproductive person will not survive in business, because less productivity means less money. Such a man needs to spend much more time and effort to achieve the same results than an effective person does. What does it mean to be productive? Is it about working more or increasing resources? No, it means getting more by spending the same amount of energy. That is, we can work only a couple of...
Why is Jan Koum leaving Facebook? - 05/02/2018
The US media write that Jan Koum, founder of WhatsApp messenger, left Facebook because of a conflict with the leadership of the most popular social network in the world. Mr. Koum expressed disagreement with Facebook's policy regarding WhatsApp users, namely, use of their personal data for advertisers and attempts to weaken the system of end-to-end message encryption in the messenger. Jan Koum...
Easy peasy: How to make your business and private life simpler - 04/27/2018
People dream that everything was simple. For example, the simpler your mobile application or terms of your user agreement, the more likely you achieve success. Here are some tips on this topic. Why we like to make things complicated People love simplicity. Students want to learn without effort. Adults want to learn easy foreign languages. And almost everyone likes to do simple exercises, like...
Nine tips for a project manager - 04/18/2018
A right strategy will help a newcomer to uncover key concepts, answer typical questions and cope with the chaos surrounding many projects. Here are nine tips for inexperienced project managers. Planning together One of the common mistakes of young project managers is that they try to plan everything by themselves. For this reason, the team members are not always ready to accept their plans....
BCG: Corporate banks have only two to three years to rethink their business - 04/12/2018
According to a new report of The Boston Consulting Group, almost half of corporate banks are now losing profits. The researchers believe that only those who carry out a complex digital transformation of their operations will be able to survive. It is noted that corporate banks have only two to three years to occupy their niches, until a competitive environment is formed. It follows from the...