An entrepreneur has to constantly evaluate, learn and adapt in order to survive and sustain in the business. Since you’re your own boss, here are some tips that will help you self-evaluate your performance. It’s that time of the year when the water cooler moments are buzzing with talks concerning the annual employee ratings and who has emerged the boss’s favourite. This is the month of employee appraisals and boy […]
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said his organisation supports the efforts of the Pakistan government and army to “help the people of Kashmir”, calling it ‘jihad’. “Jihad is the duty of an Islamic government… there is a government in Pakistan and it has always taken the stand that it is the right of Kashmiris to attain freedom. I say what our army will do to secure the […]
The innovative minds behind Google have repeatedly declared immortality is not a fantasy but a certainty. Bill Maris, the president and managing partner of Google Ventures, suggested the means to combat all diseases and age-related conditions could be available within his lifetime. Maris said, We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough […]
An iconic scene from Dereck and Beverly Joubert’s film Eye of the Leopard where a curious Legedema discovers a newborn baby baboon that brings out a different response to the one you’d expect. Please follow and like us:
There are times in my life when I have been a victim – a victim of circumstance, or so I thought. I wondered why things often didn’t work out in my favour, and how I got so “unlucky.” I used to push to create the things that I wanted, forcing them to happen; if I couldn’t, I lived out the fantasy in my mind. Little did I realize that […]
Never in human history has there been so much emphasis on business ethics, moral leadership and employee empowerment. Yet, there is no sign that bosses as a whole are getting smarter or more effective. Maybe it’s because leadership is a complicated business, and bad bosses are able to hide their dysfunction by exercising their power, offering excuses, exploiting internal politics, or practicing the old magician’s trick of distraction. Plus, quite […]
Different nations take very different approaches to the convicts they deem the most dangerous. From Russia’s prison island to Saudi Arabia’s unexpectedly cushy cellblocks, here are some of the most notable. 1. San Pedro Prison, Bolivia The prison’s only goal is to prevent escape. There are no guards inside the walls. Its 1,500 inmates must purchase or rent their cells, according to their means; they govern their own community, complete […]
SINGAPORE: Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister and architect of the tiny southeast Asian city-state’s rapid rise from British tropical outpost to global trade and financial centre, died early on Monday, aged 91, the prime minister’s office said. “Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3.18am,” a statement said. Lee, a Cambridge-educated lawyer, is widely credited with building Singapore into one of the […]
A story by Our Better World – telling stories of good to inspire action. Getting a drink of water is often not as simple as turning on a tap. For families in Kampong Speu, Cambodia, it’s a labour-intensive process that often results in diseases like diarrhoea and typhoid. With medical treatment often costing twice what most villagers earn in a month, the act of drinking water has become a […]
The world could suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water in just 15 years unless countries dramatically change their use of the resource, a U.N. report warned Friday. Many underground water reserves are already running low, while rainfall patterns are predicted to become more erratic with climate change. As the world’s population grows to an expected 9 billion by 2050, more groundwater will be needed for farming, industry and […]
