The Virtue of Poverty | Restraining Our Desires
Before we pursue poverty, we should consider for a moment why people pursue wealth and perhaps even the power that comes with it. Continue reading The Virtue of Poverty | Restraining Our Desires
Category: The Business Times
The Sales Lead | The Lifeline of a Business
How do we gauge whether or not a customer is interested? If you think that your gift of gab alone can convince people, I’d say, think again. Continue reading The Sales Lead | The Lifeline of a Business
The Lot of Fortune
If you’re seeking or are in search of something; it would naturally be something you don’t have or have never ever had. Continue reading The Lot of Fortune
The Chinese as Trade Partners | Dr Mahathir’s Words of Wisdom
These landmark deals and trade agreements draw our attention to the conundrum facing countries looking to do business with China. Continue reading The Chinese as Trade Partners | Dr Mahathir’s Words of Wisdom
The Graduate | A Cog in the Right Heavy Machinery
When you are a cog placed in a machine that is not the right fit for you–no pay rise, no promotion and no fancy title–is ever going to change your unhappiness. Continue reading The Graduate | A Cog in the Right Heavy Machinery
Ahoy Captain | Time Management for Risk Takers
Goals have to be specific. Words like, ‘happiness’, ‘wealth’, and ‘health’ are abstractions. Continue reading Ahoy Captain | Time Management for Risk Takers
When Polluters Must Pay | Shell Oil Ordered to Limit Carbon Emissions
Environmentalists, who have long been the Davids in a sea of corporate Goliaths, are celebrating after The Hague Shell to cut its carbon emissions. Continue reading When Polluters Must Pay | Shell Oil Ordered to Limit Carbon Emissions
An Entirely Digital Global Economy? Post-Pandemic Business Forecast
Did the COVID-19 pandemic wreck havoc and disrupt the world into a state of chaos; or did it streamline and expedite a digitalisation trend that was first born in Silicon Valley in the 1970s? Continue reading An Entirely Digital Global Economy? Post-Pandemic Business Forecast
A Traffic Jam in the Suez Canal? The Significance of Waterways in Global Trade
Eight tug boats are working to free the large container ship stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal, halting marine traffic through one of the busiest and most important waterways in the world. Continue reading A Traffic Jam in the Suez Canal? The Significance of Waterways in Global Trade
The Hidden Goldmines We Treat Like Garbage | Rare-Earth Metals and Mobile Phones
Two billion smartphone users upgrade to a new phone roughly every 11 months; of which barely 10 percent get recycled. Continue reading The Hidden Goldmines We Treat Like Garbage | Rare-Earth Metals and Mobile Phones
The Mercantile 