It was around ten close to midnight when we felt like having dinner, we normally eat late at night due to the type of schedule we have in the office. So my partner and I along with one of our newly hired guy decided to go out for a dinner. Its ussually better to eat [...]
Any form of training, so long as it is directed towards enhancing the present will always turn out to be a productive means for improvement. And for that matter, critical thinking is one form of training that creates the edge between the achievers and the non-achievers.
Critical thinking, in a nutshell, is the facility by which [...]
I started my company (EMJ) from the trunk of my car (and it was a small trunk so that’s a small business). I grew EMJ to $375,000,000 in sales prior to selling it to SYNNEX. I am now CEO of a $1 billion business.
One certainty in life is you will not always see eye to [...]
A lot of home-based business owners don’t fully understand the concept behind press releases, or realize the impact a simple press release can have on their small business.
A press release is an announcement, such as a business name change, upcoming event, a special sale, etc., or it can be an account of a news story [...]
The business world, as with any other trades are composed of three major types of people: the low profile, the mediocre and the excellent. If you have a good mixture of all of these, you would maintain an ideal balance in your business. However, if not, such in the case that if one class overpowers [...]
I have worked outside of the US for a large percentage of my career and have learned what some of the challenges are in managing a diverse and multicultural workforce. The following three challenges are becoming more common as more companies work more internationally and as the domestic workplace becomes more diverse.
Cultural arrogance, or the [...]
A man is known by the company he keeps. We have heard that phrase so many times. Our folks have cautioned us often with that in our silly childhood.
Do we heed to that advice in our business? Where do you hang out? What is your business surrounded by?
Have you heard about Christian Huygens?
This genius of [...]
