ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Mary Jane Alvero, CEO of GeoScience Testing Laboratory (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Mary Jane’s name is a fixture in any conversation about Filipino workplace excellence in the UAE. Through her exemplary hard work and discipline, she has […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Ainslie Young, Copywriter and Online Marketing Coach & Consultant Ainslie Young is a certified life coach who helps female entrepreneurs work smarter not harder to grow their businesses. What’s your story?I completed an honours degree in Psychology, (which I detested), and then went into a career in marketing and business development (where I also completed a Masters in Marketing). While I enjoyed the international […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Maria Lasprilla, Head of Core Product at Pipedrive (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Maria Lasprilla is the Head of Core Product at Pipedrive, a sales management tool designed to help small sales teams manage intricate or lengthy sales […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Kristel Kruustük, Founder and CEO of Testlio (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Kristel Kruustük, Founder and CEO of Testlio – an end-to-end QA management platform and community of expert testers that help businesses […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Women on Top in Tech – Nisha Maharaj, Managing Director at Niche Integrated Solutions (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Nisha Maharaj, Managing Director of Niche Integrated Solutions – established in 2013, a 100% black women owned and managed Organization. Niche Integrated […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Sue McLean, Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster. (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Sue McLean, Of Counsel of Morrison & Foerster. Sue McLean is an Of Counsel lawyer in the London office of international […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Women on Top in Tech – Anupama Vjai , General Manager at Schneider Electric India Private Ltd (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Anupama Vjai, General Manager & Director for Monitoring Operations of Schneider Electric India Private Ltd. Previously, she worked as a Program […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP The World’s Most Powerful Women In Tech 2016 The power of female leadership is often underplayed. But recent changes in our world has opened up more opportunities for women take the top helm. Recently, more and more countries have opened up to appointing or electing a female leader. Whether in politics, sciences, or business, women are getting a better chance in landing a […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGY Women on Top in Tech – Clare Flynn Levy, Founder/CEO of Essentia Analytics (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with former fund manager and current financial software entrepreneur Clare Flynn Levy, Founder and CEO of Essentia Analytics. What makes you do […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Kailin Chan, Co-Founder of AlfaCloud Kailin Chan provides industry leading business cloud solutions for Asian businesses. What’s your story? It is literally a ‘connecting the dots’ journey for me. I started out as an engineer after graduation, developing financial software for the banking sector in Singapore. I later came to Hong Kong for my investment banking career on the frontline, […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Will ChatGPT Transform Philosophy Key Takeaway: In 1950 English mathematician Alan Turing proposed an “imitation game” where a judge entered into a typed dialogue with an AI pretending to be human as a way of testing if the AI was intelligent. Lex.page is an AI-enabled writing tool that can generate text or answer questions. In 2018, Google unveiled Duplex, […] Written by Geoffrey Rockwell January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
What Ancient Wisdom Can Teach Us About Finance Key Takeaway: The rate of species extinctions as a result of human activity is at least 1,000 times higher than the natural rate. The effects of business on our climate are also clear, with 71%of the world’s fossil fuel emissions coming from just 100 multinational corporations. They aim to work within the nature and limits […] Written by Atul Shah January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why Amazon Became So Successful Key Takeaway: Amazon with a market capitalization of over $1.5 trillion and net revenue of $386 billion in 2020. Customer Service and Convenience is one of the key factors that has contributed to its success. Amazon’s focus on customer service and convenience has played a major role in its success. Innovative Business Model is another […] Written by Andreas Lehmann January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
What The Art Of David Hockney Can Teach Us About Life Key Takeaways: David Hockney is the great modern mark-maker. He brings new joy and richness to the very act of seeing, writes art critic Richard Brinsley Wylie. David Hockney’s latest book, My Window, is a visual diary of what he observed from his bed. At the age of 72, he started using iPhone and iPad […] Written by Martin Kemp January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Cats In The Medieval Ages Key Takeaways: In the middle ages, men and women were often identified by the animals they kept. Keeping an animal that was lavished with attention, affection and high-quality food in return for no functional purpose – other than companionship – signified high status. Pets became part of the personal identity of the nobility. The 14th-century […] Written by Madeleine Killacky January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Look At The Global Economy In 2023 Key Takeaways: EU energy ministers have capped gas prices at €180 (£159) per megawatt hour (MWh) for this winter. The cap is an attempt to control the unruly market forces that saw gas prices spike to nearly €340/MWh last summer. Political intervention risks repeating mistakes made by the US during the 1970s oil price shocks. […] Written by Adi Imsirovic January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
What We Can Learn From Kanye West And Adidas Key Takeaways: Brand collaborations are strategic partnerships between two or more brands. When done well, the collaboration helps both partners grow their brands and amplify a shared message. But just like any marriage, it doesn’t always go well; recent examples include Yeezy’s breakups with Gap and Adidas. Adidas has ended its partnership with Yeezy after […] Written by Pankhuri Malhotra December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education Key Takeaways: The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. In his writing, Flynn illustrates study after study, spanning nations and decades, in which modern educational gift of abstraction — a transcendent sign of intelligence, as we saw in Raven’s Matrices — has been […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022October 19, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
