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Sirota Survey Intellgivence came up with 7 “resiliency strategy” drawn up by a US research firm to focu on effective people management to ensure that the business, people are best placed to deal with whatever economic knocks that came up their way.
1. Develop a “partnership culture” within the business. This culture will perform better than […]

Obama has just got elected as the President of USA. The next 4 years of world economy would depend now on the leadership of Obama to bring USA and effectively the world economy to the next stage, hopefully to a bighter future.
See Obama’s Victory Speech at Chicago below:

Download the written speech: obama-victory-speech.pdf
I was looking at […]

This is extracted from a new book, Doing Good Well: What Does (And Does Not) Make Sense In The Nonprofit World, by local author Willie Cheng. The book covers the various facets of non-profit management, philanthropic giving, social innovation and even non-profit quirks.
1 Charities should not primarily be held accountable to their legal owners. […]

Lessons on staffing by Andrea De Cruz
Andrea De Cruz, the actress celebrity in Singapore turned businesswoman after her liver transplant (over the slimming pills consumption which she also endorsed) from now husband Pierre Png. Now she opened a chic hair spa called Cinq. Here she shared on her experience in staffing.
As a businesswoman, she learned […]

These are the qualities of Great CEOS / or being in Top Management
1. High Energy
2. Desire to be in charge
3. Ability to see into really important part of complex issues (and simplify)
4. Never be Passive-Aggressive.
5. Never Micromanage
6. Ability to Persuade others the decisions they think are right and take responsibility for the power position. (and I think possibly the consequences)
Summarised from […]