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“Mistakes are an inevitable consequence of doing something new and should be seen as valuable.” – Ed Catmull, President of Pixar A couple of months ago, I saw an interview with Steaua football club owner Gigi Becali after a game. The match ended 1:1, but in a way his team just lost two points after conceding the equalizer shortly before the …

A mix of unsustained economic policies widespread corruption political scandals poor productivity crucial dependency on natural resources high consumption instead of competition and investments excessive bureaucracy could lead to the greatest recession in over 100 years for the country. If you think, this country is Romania, you’re not completely off track.. But, however, the above mentioned downfall is the sad story …

In yesterday’s post about ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and workplace-automation through robots, the main topic was to accept and adopt the necessary changes caused by technological progress. Whether you like it or not, it will happen. So it might be a good idea to prepare yourself to be ready for these changes. And I might have an even better idea, to profit …

Automatically operated machine that replaces human effort’ – Definition of ‘robot’ in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Machines vs Humans ? – No, the Future will be Humans & Machines Machines already have topped the best humans at most games held up as measures of human intellect. For for instance in chess, when IBM’s ‘Deep Blue’ computer won 3,5-2,5 against world champion Garry …

Challenge, creativity and innovation and a work/life balance In a broad survey, 170’000 business and engineering/IT students from Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Russia, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, and Belgium weighed in on what companies and employer characteristics they found most attractive.   Business students prefer professional training and development; challenging work; and opportunities for international travel/relocation. Also …

”Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.” John Templeton   Last night, I had not one, but two invitations for dinner. According to the motto ‘First-come, first-served’ I …

While Silicon Valley’s Tesla and founder Elon Musk making global headlines and ‘Tesla Motors’ is valued about 30 billion USD on financial markets, its worth to notice, that in the business of batteries and electric cars, there is another company around that’s much bigger, but less valued: China’s BYD for ‘Build Your Dreams’.    In eastern China’s Anhui province, agriculture …

If you drive from the city of Geneva along the shore of Lake Geneva, you will first pass by the UEFA-headquaters in Nyon and soon after reach a place called Lausanne.  It’s a nice swiss city with just 130’000 inhabitants, but worldwide known because Lausanne hosts the global headquaters of over 50 sport-associations from equestrian or hockey to fencing and …

These Daily Habits Determine Your Success   Author Thomas Corley spent 5 years studying the daily activities of 233 rich and 128 poor people. He discovered there was an immense difference between the habits of the rich and the poor. “Daily habits dictate how successful or unsuccessful you will be in life,” the author writes in his just released new …

Although I had the fortune to travel quite a bit and see many parts of this world, I wouldn’t presume to be able to tell you exactly the best places to live on this planet. So I leave it up to the professionals and picked the annual ranking of Mercer. The New York based company is the world’s largest human …