Everyone wants to win, to have everything work out the first time and bask in the accolades that come with success. However, failure may actually be integral to success — and that’s as applicable to your business or career as it is to anything else. Don’t let failure be a self-esteem killer. Learn to embrace failure: It’s inevitable and it could be the first step to your success. Find Your... 

It is true that with serious competition in the market, if you don’t innovate then you will die. However, it is also true that not all great ideas you receive would be awe inspiring and brilliant. Some of them would be simple and clichéd. Some others would be good but impractical. Out of the ones left, there would be those that you can actually try and find out their effectiveness. As a business... 

Spend an hour watching financial shows like Bloomberg, CNN Money, Mad Money or Fast Money and don’t be surprised to see how often changes occur in the retail industry. In fact, at times it appears as if the only industry that experiences as much (perhaps more) change as the retail industry is the financial services industry. Nothing short of commitment, passion for retail, including building... 

If you are asked to inspire someone, wouldn’t you panic? Your first thought would be – what can I do to inspire others? To answer this, think back to who inspired you? Who was your hero? It can be a teacher from your school days, a friend or a relative, Mother Teresa or anyone else. What was it about them that made you what you are today? In a business, as a project manager, it is important that... 

Research is a key element at any stage of company growth and while this is common knowledge, it’s something that also requires focus and strategy. Competitive intelligence means not only gathering company data on your corner of the market, but also analyzing information about competitors and target customers and applying the findings to your own practices. Company Intelligence (CI) is an ethical... 

Looking for ways to make your small business stand tall beside industry Big-wigs? look no further. Being an owner of a small company can be frustrating at times, having to manage money, the constant calls and meetings, advertising, and not to mention the anxiety of delegating jobs.  At times it may seem overwhelming, and for a second you may doubt your abilities– but in this day and age where... 

Businessmen have been around since the prehistoric times. During the cavemen days, people would use fire, stones and wood to produce things. The skills of the cavemen included things such as gathering, hunting and cave dwelling. Surviving was also considered a skill. Loin cloths and leaves were the primary attire that people wore during these times. The neolithic business man era was from 9500 to... 

So what is the secret to running a successful business? According to the talent management company Ochre House, it’s PLANNING. No business owner has achieved success by accident. Instead they have had clear goals, and plans in place that ensured they would achieve those goals. It may be a time consuming process, time you would rather spend in going out to secure new business or to design new... 

Fast forward two months to our first day of trading, and the mood had changed. Lehman brothers was bankrupt, interest rates had been cut, Iceland was on the brink of collapse, and our computers hadn’t turned up. Sitting at my naked desk in my freshly painted box-office, while my first full-time employee popped bubble wrap, I took a deep breath and surveyed my kingdom with despair. The image of myself... 

A company team building day is a period of time in which employees and their supervisors are taken offsite in order to learn more about working well together through fun activities. A company team building day can take many shapes and forms including a full day of outdoor adventures through a specialist provider or simply a day in a conference hall that involves team talks and games. The objective...