CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Chesline Pierre-Paul – CEO of Chesline Pierre-Paul This article was originally published here: Chesline Pierre-Paul – CEO of Chesline Pierre-Paul Chesline Pierre-Paul combines her disruptive instincts with lateral thinking to alter the perceptions of others. What’s your story? I am a unicorn. I am a disruptor, a media & language activist, poet, anti-colonialist, transformation coach, and social impact expert on innovation, economic […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Dave Wakeman – Principal Consultant at Wakeman Consulting Group This article was originally published here: Dave Wakeman – Principal Consultant at Wakeman Consulting Group Motivated by his pleasure in building relationships, Dave Wakeman uses his strategic skills to help others grow their businesses. What’s your story? When people talk about a roundabout way of getting to where they are, I believe it fits me […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Shubhra Venneti – Founder & Manager of S Family Wellness Pte. Ltd. This article was originally published here: Shubhra Venneti – Founder & Manager of S Family Wellness Pte. Ltd. Starting as a sleep therapist did not constrain Shubhra Venneti from moving into other areas of the wellness industry What’s your story? I was raised in Hong Kong and lived overseas all my life and had the […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Rasti Vaibhav – Founder & Managing Director of Sydney-based Licenced Independent Buyer’s Agency Get RARE Properties This article was originally published here: Rasti Vaibhav – Founder & Managing Director of Sydney-based Licenced Independent Buyer’s Agency Get RARE Properties Rasti Vaibhav has made it his goal to help others achieve their long terms goals through property investment. What’s your story? Rasti Vaibhav is an Architect and ex-Fund Manager where he directly managed […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Lynn Whitbeck – Founder & CEO Petite2Queen and Future Forward Sales This article was originally published here: Lynn Whitbeck – Founder & CEO Petite2Queen and Future Forward Sales The joy of selling and achieving have stayed with Lynn Whitbeck since her girl scout days, and stood her in good stead. What’s your story? My exposure to sales started when I was a girl scout, and it […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK TECHNOLOGY Electric Cars And Mass Adoption An interesting article by Justin Rowlatt on the BBC website, “Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think”, applies the S-curve of the technology life cycle to electric car sales, comparing what is happening at the moment to the spread of internet connectivity in the late ’90s and early ’00s, and concludes that we are at the point […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK MONEY & FINANCE POLITICS Sustainable Investments: A Bubble? The rise of environmental, social and corporate governance investment (ESG) as a prioritization strategy is driving change in the financial landscape, obliging many companies to get on board. Some observers see the reorientation of investment priorities toward sustainability as a $30 trillion market opportunity, while others insist that, regardless of the money involved, companies must integrate it into […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Ruben Alvarez – Founder and CEO of The Marketing Hunters This article was originally published here: Ruben Alvarez – Founder and CEO of The Marketing Hunters Ruben Alvarez’ mother believed he could do anything and he is using his marketing business to prove her right. What’s your story? I am an Hispanic entrepreneur who grew up in a single family home. My mother always said […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK POLITICS TECHNOLOGY Are Tech Giants Above The Law? A US federal court has ruled that the antitrust lawsuits that the Federal Trade Commission and 40 states had filed against Facebook failed to prove conclusively that the company is a de facto monopoly, rejecting the state lawsuits and giving the FTC 30 days to substantiate its arguments. As a result, Facebook shares are up 4%, pushing the company’s share price […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ART & DESIGN EDITOR'S PICK What Is Art? Art is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual, auditory, or performed artifacts— artworks—that express the author’s imaginative or technical skill, and are intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts, which include images or objects in fields like painting, sculpture, […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Reality: A Game Of Quantum Mirrors? Imagine you sit down and pick up your favourite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth book sleeve, and smell that familiar book smell as you flick through the pages. To you, the book is made up of a range of sensory appearances. But you also […] Written by The Conversation July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Do Olympic Athletes Compare To Insects? Olympians spend years training to be the best of the best. Scientists and sportspeople have spent decades researching the mechanics of the human body to ensure our elite athletes are always reaching higher, faster and stronger. But how do human athletic skills compare with those of insects and arachnids? Once you take the relative sizes […] Written by The Conversation July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
3 Things Philosophy Can Teach Us About Love Love can seem a primal force, an intoxicating mix of desire, care, ecstasy and jealousy hard-wired into our hearts. The polar opposite of philosophy’s measured rationality and theoretical speculations. Yet if you take any topic in the world, and keeping asking deep questions of it, you will ultimately wind up doing philosophy. Love is no […] Written by The Conversation July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Tokyo 2021: An Olympics Without Crowds? The Tokyo 2021 Olympics will be the first Games to take place with no spectators. The sight of sparsely populated stadiums and arenas has, of course, become common during the pandemic – and sports economists have studied the impact this has had on athletic performance. But the Olympics are different. For so many athletes, reaching the […] Written by The Conversation July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Space Tourism: Can It Be More Than ‘Space’ Joyrides For Millionaires? Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on July 12. The event was hailed as the start of space tourism, narrowly beating the planned launch on 20 July by fellow billionaire business magnate Jeff Bezos and his firm Blue Origin. But does the 85km (53 miles), the altitude […] Written by The Conversation July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 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
