Founder and Head of online retailer Amazon, billionaire Jeff Bezos, sold one million shares of the company at a price of approximately $ 935 to $ 950 per share, reports Bloomberg. At the moment, Bezos owns 79.9 million shares of Amazon, which is about 17% of the company, the agency said. At the end of 2015, Bezos owned 83 million shares. In April, the businessman said in an interview with the...

Charm is a quality that helps to achieve more in any area of life, be it business, or private life. Most people simply cannot resist a natural charisma. But is it ever possible to cultivate a charm? And what do you need to become a magnetic personality? One of the compelling qualities of a charming person is being an effective communicator. Below we collected seven small remarks on what qualities...

Agile, or flexible product management based on Scrum, differs from traditional approaches in many respects. Let's look at the most important aspects. Typically, processes in a company use a popular waterfall model, when everything happens in stages and sequentially. Simply put, the company’s managers ‘keep their eyes on the prize’. If the ultimate goal, that is, the product requirements, changes...

Last year, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson received a cash compensation of $ 27.4 million, being on the post of executive director of the world's largest public oil trading company, Exxon Mobil, Reuters reports. He and other senior executives got their salaries raised, despite the fact that in 2016 Exxon's net profit fell by more than 50%, as the company, like many of its counterparts, tried...

An overwhelming number of organizations use this "old but gold" scheme: a leader who manages, and subordinates who submit. To continue the tautology, then an employee of such a company, when asked "What do you do at work?", will answer: "I do my job". We became so used to the existing order of things that we do not even think about it. Could it be any different? Yes. Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow...

According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, yesterday Jeff Bezos, founder and Head of the world's largest online retailer Amazon.com, increased his fortune by $ 1.5 billion to $ 75.6 billion. This helped him overtake Berkshire Hathaway's owner Warren Buffett and founder of Inditex Amancio Ortega. This is the first time when Jeff Bezos took the second place after traditional leader Bill Gates....

Consulting company BCG named 12 main trends in the labor market. In the analysts’ opinion, among the most important trends are automation, new strategies to attract customers, aging of the population, growth of the income gap and development of more flexible structures. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has prepared a study in which it identified the 12 main trends that are already increasingly...

"Mastery is a mysterious process in which what at first seems difficult, then comes more easily and brings more and more satisfaction thanks to constant training," George Leonard writes in his book, saying that this statement is true for anything you do. However, the most important thing is to understand that the path of mastery is by no means fast. Results will not be instant and easy, and...

Why do the best students make mistakes in simple tests? Why did you fail the interview? Why do we become ebarassed when we need to show everything we can do? Sien Beilock explored the scientific basis of human behavior when everything is at stake, and is ready to share seven tips to help you avoid stressful breakdowns and failures in sports, business and other areas. Distract yourself in...