Summer is meant to be hot. Indeed, more often than not vacationers might complain about the lack of sufficiently warm ‘beach’ weather or the rainy days that interfere with their planned activities. Yet, with increased regularity we are also experiencing dangerous heatwaves and their impactful consequences. Just a couple of weeks ago southern Europe was […]
Poor Sleep = Poor Business?
Let me start by wishing you a good night’s sleep tonight! According to science there are not many other wishes that can trump this one… In his bestselling book about sleep, Matthew Walker, neuroscientist and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, puts together a compelling case for […]
A Case For Compassion in Global Business
Have you heard about compassion? According to the Dalai Lama, compassion is “associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect toward the other.” A recent scholarly definition sees compassion as “an interpersonal process involving the noticing, feeling, sense making, and acting that alleviates the suffering of another person” (Dutton, Workman, & Hardin, 2014). While […]
# Black Lives Matter
The Coronavirus pandemic, as any other bigger crisis, has pointed to many broader socio-political challenges and problems. Specifically, impacts of the current pandemic brought to light substantial economic and racial inequalities, with the latter gaining yet more prominence after the killing of George Floyd. Two years ago, in the wake of vivid racial violence in […]
FOMO and FOBO That Leaders Should Be Aware of
Fear is one of the universal and central emotions to human existence. Some 200,000 years ago fear helped our caveman ancestors to survive on a daily basis, and it seems to have been an adaptive feature of our cognitive and affective repertoire ever since. Although nowadays we hardly find any saber-toothed tigers, we successfully focus […]
Entrepreneurial Talent: Insights from the Latest GTCI Report
The notion of talent is central to all stories of success. We can speak about high achieving talents in sports, find many historical accounts about talented leaders of countries and nations, and attribute business success to talented heads of organizations. Yet, behind these success stories of talented leaders in the field there are usually stories […]
Deep Work in a Global Context
In the last blog post I touched upon the topics of internet addiction, digital distractions, and the harmful influences of our online lifestyles, in general. Following up on the topic, let’s look at the notion of deep work, a term coined by a computer science professor at Georgetown University, Cal Newport. In his bestselling book, […]
Employees with Broader Interests: Benefits and Prerequisites
In my school years, I truly enjoyed learning languages and believed that I am good at it, that this was my talent. On the other hand, I had trouble with chemistry, which was also obvious to me – I just had no talent for chemistry, and there didn’t seem much I could do about it. […]
Dear CEOs, Whose Side Are You on?!
Plato argued that everyone has an obligation to participate in politics… and although the share of the population that actively engages in elections is a challenging issue for many governments, the current reality is possibly closest to Plato’s vision than ever before. If before people would discuss political and social issues around the dining table […]
Into 2018 with Optimism
2018 – here we are! I believe that for many it is exciting to welcome the New Year, as it symbolises the beginning of something new, fills us with new energy and hope. Many times this momentum of a new beginning drives people to conclude ‘the past’ and create all sorts of resolutions and multiple […]
Cyber Security: A ‘Must Have’ for Global Businesses
In today’s volatile conditions business leaders need to account for many risks. For example, data from a recent survey by the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows that global leaders identify several economic, geopolitical, social and technological risks, with the first five priorities being: Unemployment or Underemployment (1st), Fiscal Crises (2nd), Failure of National Governance (3rd), […]
On Brexit, No-Deal Brexit and Their Consequences
On June 23rd, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union, and the departure is scheduled for 29th of March, 2019. Last month, UK Prime Minister Theresa May went to Florence to deliver her vision on a post-Brexit UK and its relationship with the EU. The speech was aimed to deliver the message that […]
Gender Gap: A Debate That Simply Doesn’t Age
Tolerance, diversity and equality are persistent topics in global business, which I occasionally write about. Specifically, I have repeatedly touched upon the topic of gender inequality, writing about the underrepresentation of women in management, the gender gap within the expat community, and lack of equality for women in the workplace overall. Recently I came across […]
Corporate Philanthropy in the Aftermath of Natural Disaster: The Latest Research
The past few months have been like an endless series of natural disasters. First, there were the devastating floods in South Asia during the summer. Then, starting at the end of August, the U.S. got hit by hurricanes: Hurricane Harvey in Houston and Hurricane Irma in Florida. Simultaneously, Hurricane Katia battered Mexico, which in early […]
The Global Gig Economy
The days of ‘life-long’ careers within the same organisation, long-term stability of a signed job contract, guaranteed relevance of the skills acquired in university, and predictable work routines are long gone. Today, a CV with no updates within a 5-7 year period signifies career stagnation, rather than progression; the majority of skills need to be […]
CEO Activism?
The global political landscape has recently been immersed in the aftermath of racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Along with the horror of the event itself, what drew even more attention was the very controversial reaction to it from the one who is expected to speak up for the people, the country and its values. President […]
