Three snakes
On my way to a job interview this morning, I saw three snakes: The small and medium sized ones were dead, ran over by some passing cars, while the longest was alive. About a metre long, it was crossing the empty street where we passed by on the motorbike, the driver in the front slowing […]
Business at a crossroads: Are the right Incentives in place?
by Chris Cracknell Economists often say that the private sector is more efficient than government. This may be true, but it feels like a half-finished thought: More efficient at what? Government has certain freedoms that most businesses can only dream of, such as the ability to think on longer timescales, change the rules of the […]
Before it was money it was a unit of weight: The Thai baht
Exactly like the British pound sterling in ancient times, the Thai baht (Thai: บาท) was originally used as a unit of weight or mass. Specifically, 1 baht was equal in value to 15 grammes of silver. The baht is still used today as a unit or measure of weight for other precious metals, like gold. […]
The eyes have it
There is a long list of sayings and quotes about the eyes. The earliest account is from biblical times, in the King James version of the bible Mathew 6: 22 reads, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23: But […]
COMBAT DECISION FATIGUE AND HOW TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS EVERY TIME
Making decisions, even small ones, can wear us down over time. Every day we make endless decisions about what we eat and wear, what we work on, what we do with our spare time. By bedtime, the average person has made 35,000 decisions! Every decision requires time and energy, and depletes our willpower. Add to […]
Words from a wise man, Minor International founder warns of more job cuts, closures
Minor International Plc, which runs more than 500 hotels across 55 countries, may cut more jobs and shut recently re-opened properties as the coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions continue to keep guests away. “We have hotels that can’t even pay for staff or electricity because they’re totally empty,” Bill Heinecke, chairman and founder of Bangkok-based […]
Prioritize Employee Well-Being for Business Resilience
By maintaining a human focus during a crisis, leaders can build resilience among their workers and strengthen their organizations for the future. The unmitigated stress of a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic can have serious consequences for employees and employers alike. Studies show that workers who are distressed are significantly less productive than those who aren’t, and […]
Time to Get Real about Work-Life Balance
Are we getting it all wrong? I believe that for far too long we’ve been stuck as a society into a particular set of thinking about how we work and live. It is time to get real, to break from those so called “work-life” issues, and start creating a different type of integration to live […]
Preparing for future change and our new world
Today, we face changes that are happening faster than ever before. Change is great as it presents both individuals and businesses with new opportunities to reach new heights of success. But change can also be unsettling and disruptive for some. At the end of the day, we are all humans. Though we can learn to […]
Ownership in the Workplace
Regardless the segment and size of companies, a company with a well-defined corporate culture, notably gives a great value on employees´ expected performance Even being the employees from any hierarchical level, who treat work as if it were their own business, who have a sense of ownership. In order to figure out what is an […]