You are overwhelmed with work, start complaining to your boss, they disregard your complains, you insist, you make their life miserable and after some time you may be lucky enough to persuade them to invest in bringing in a new colleague to help you out and take some workload off your back. Except that you Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #22: Give to get[…]
It is very rare for a new employee to be in a position to contribute immediately to the team as a full member. I have never seen this happening to be honest, but I am holding a bit back just in case there are any miracle kids out there. The reason for this isn’t lack Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #21: The culture gap[…]
Remember this line? It was a question posed by King Leonidas to his troops, when, while on the road to Thermopylae to stop the Persians, they came across the Thespians. All this of course, according to the movie “300” which, frankly, didn’t do very well in terms of accurately depicting historical events. Not that it Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #20: What is your profession?[…]
I was recently asked to review the valuation of a commercial real estate property here in Cyprus. The property belonged to a friend of a friend and the valuation was performed by a non-Cypriot, who had recently moved in on the island. Naturally, the first thing I did in this case (and as a matter Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #19: Don’t judge a book by its cover[…]