The Demise of Empathy in Business and the Workplace

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Empathy is at the foundation of both altruism and collaboration. Thus, while it does consume scarce resources, empathy confers important...

What Business Owes to Science

For a long time, there was a strong movement militating against business. There is some of that now; but there is a much larger movement militating against science, and it includes many people who have business affiliations. It is time that this movement be met...

£754bn Boardroom hoarding is strangling UK economic recovery

UK Business is strangling the economic recovery by hoarding a £754billion cash pile, equivalent to 50 per cent of the size of the British economy, according to a leading forecasting group. By refusing to ...

Why America deserves better than Puritan values

A number of conservative politicians keep hearkening back to Puritan settlers as being the true character of America or as representing core American values. There are several huge problems with that stance.First of all, America is a vast nation of 300 million people. The...

Hollywood tried to do business with Megaupload

On Tuesday, the New Zealand press has published several Hollywood studios may have entered into negotiations long before the FBI intervened web page content, Megaupload, accused by U.S. of hacking. Is not gold all...

Nine trends defining the future world of work

Increasing global integration: Due mainly to explosive growth in many emerging markets, the world will experience massive economic growth over the next thirty or so years. It is predicted that by 2050,...

Rationalism and Romanticism

There have been many people who have made claims that Romanticism was some kind of pathology or some kind of aberration. In fact Romanticism is a natural successor of rationalism, and for a very simple reason: The rational mind has contempt for nature and feeling until it...

Live Camera to Singapore Port

Port of Singapore blog ( singaporeport.blogspot.com) set a live camera facing to Port of Singapore container terminal. Through this webcam, you can see the container terminal of Singapore Port live 27/4. The...

Maximizing Benefit On All Sides

The process of achieving optimal solutions in presence of two sides clashing does not come from compromise but rather from supporting what each side is right about while eliminating what it is wrong about. In most cases, the motive for each side is legitimate, and it is right...

Two unorthodox business approaches that work

Having worked in a number of professional settings, I have seen two non-orthodox approaches do good things for the companies that practice them. One is cultivating loyalty to the company through direct personal engagement between the boss and the workers. The other is...

Jobs focus is for simple minded

Get real If you were to start up a new business, the first thing that I would advise is to 1) identify prospective customer needs, 2) qualify customers as to their means to procure solutions, 3) assess competition...

Romney Business Background

At least he has a business backgroud  Jon Huntsman may claim that being the CEO of his family trust is a business. Well, it is of sort, but not what I have in mind as qualification for president. Mitt Romney...

‘Reverse Bonus Checks’ Drain Wall Street Bank Accounts

New York -- The global economic crisis has finally caught up with Wall Street insiders who triggered it. They are discovering that their traditional year-end compensation is lowering the balance on their bank...

"I have a dream" Speech: Revised for Contemporary Situation

In 1963, Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. That was 12 years before my birth, and much has changed since then. The issues that are at work now are issues that are very different from the issues that were at work back then. This is my take on the...

“New Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone.”

A curious story out of the State of Georgia, USA involves a west Georgia business owner stirring up a controversy with signs he posted on his company’s trucks, for all to see as the trucks roll up and down roads, highways and interstates: “New Company Policy: We are...

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