Eight Strategies to Improve Employee Productivity

Employee productivity is an important factor in the smooth running of your business. It doesn’t only affect the bottom line, but it also impacts employee morale and job satisfaction, which are important ingredients for business growth. In today’s fast-moving business environment, companies are looking for easy ways to boost productivity and stay ahead of the …

Career Fields that Are Least Impacted By Economic Instability

Layoffs aren’t the only bad thing about a recession or an economically unstable situation. An economic downturn can impact everything from your student loans to your work benefits and your retirement savings, especially if it lasts for a while. Our most recent crisis, of course, came from COVID-19, and its effects were felt in some …

10 Ways Cloud Accounting Can Improve SMEs

Accounting has been practiced for centuries. Over the years, accountants have slowly incorporated technology into their processes as innovations and advancements rise. Traditional accounting primarily sought to assess, compile, and record spending. When technology was integrated with accounting, it could look for patterns, causes, or swings in expense behavior. Modern accounting is transforming conventional accounting …

DallE, ChatGPT and deep hallucinations

I was asked by several of my students to write about the ChatGPT, yet I kept delaying it.  The reason is very simple. I have so many conflicting feelings, that I did not know where to begin.  Let us start with a simple idea of the “uncanny valley”. Uncanny valley The current generation of AI …

What is a Personal Brand Statement?

A personal brand statement is a concise one to two-sentence description of your abilities, expertise, and passions that explains how you can contribute to your field. You may be able to advance professionally or discover new prospects for commercial initiatives. Here’s what you need to know about personal brand statements and how they can help …

To do or not to do? Procrastinate….

Procrastinate by all means if you have to. Do not act impulsively. Be creative. Never lose hope. My message This is my message for today. For me, these sentences send the same message and are deeply interconnected.  Our lives are quite long, a marathon rather than a sprint. Opportunities and threats come and go. Sometimes …

How To Improve Communication In Your Business: A Step-by-step Guide

communication

Communication is the key to success in any business. If you want your company to thrive, then you need to improve your communication skills. In this post, we will share with you 7 steps that will help you improve your communication skills. There are a lot of ways to improve communication skills. One way is …

Speedwriting: the best of long-term memorization and creative writing (no more spaced repetitions!)

The basic idea of speedwriting is very simple. If we research a subject, read about it, create notes, and memorize everything we need, writing about the subject should be really easy. And if we write about something creatively, remembering it for years after writing also becomes easy. I call this virtuous circle speedwriting. TLDR We …

Managing Your Documents: Google Docs, Confluence, And Sharepoint

The tools you use can make or break your way to success. Having an efficient collaboration and document management tool is the most important need for any organization, especially in times when team members are working from separate locations. An organization undertakes various business operations with shared roles and responsibilities, so flawless collaboration and communication …

Amygdala hijack and Cassandra syndrome

What happens in minds of other people is a mystery for us. Strong subjective experiences might be disbelieved or go unnoticed.  One may easily be overwhelmed by something trivial to everybody else. “How can it be?” we might ask. The answer is not very comfortable. For more information read here and here. My kid and corona …