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Does it ring a bell? Culture is a word for people's 'way of life', meaning the way they do thing. As many cultures throughout history have found, all society develop routines, habits and practices, which we call the "culture”. As I am sure you know, these cultures can be remarkably different, in terms of what sort of behavior they value and what they don’t like to see, and what they punish. Always, these habits and conventions have been developed over the course of many ye

Sir Ken Robinsons in his book mention that life isn't linear and it evolves through a constant process of improvisation. Most of us have a plan for success but as you probably know by now, sometimes life doesn't go according to plan. In fact success in any endeavour is usually not a linear path. It involves some ups and downs and the willingness to veer off the beaten path and take the scenic route. The traditional view of how people become successful looks something like; St

Imagine you are asked to watch a short video (above) in which eight people-four in white shirts and four in black shirts-pass basketballs around. While you watch, you must keep a silent count of the number of passes made by the people in white shirts. At some point, a gorilla strolls into the middle of the action, faces the camera and thumps its chest, and then leaves, spending nine seconds on screen. Would you see the gorilla? Almost everyone has the intuition that the answe

Entrepreneurs are a breed of determined, bold, and competitive human beings. Most often than not, they have the personal qualities they need to run a successful business. Then why is it that an astonishing 8 out of 10 small businesses fail every year? By examining pitfalls in businesses that are doing everything “right,” it becomes easier to see how it takes more than an ambitious CEO to achieve success. Even though the sector is an important component, many of these SMEs can

Alpharabius - A master of solving intellectual jigsaw puzzles, navigated and shaped the humanistic thoughts of a period now referred to as the as the Golden Age of the East. Al-Farabi made a fundamental contribution to Arabic literature and produced Arabic commentary and interpretation of Aristotle, Plato, and other ancient classics at a time when European were heedless about the Greek Language, and neither had the taste to understand the Greek contribution. In fact, it took

The Stockdale Paradox approached adversity with a very different mind-set, which is the need to recognised the reality of situation create a resilience. When you're faced with a challenge or a trauma, you look at that challenge objectively. You might make the assessment, 'I'm in really big trouble.' You have a realistic assessment of what you're facing. On the other hand, you have the attitude and the confidence to say, 'But I will prevail. I'm in a tough spot, but I will pre