Christmas is coming and just like Santa, I have a present for you! Subscribe to my newsletters, which are nothing more than practical notifications of when there’s a new post. Based on my traffic data, most of you either wait for my Monday updates here, or just visit at random instances to check if there’s Read more about 2018-19 Christmas giveaway![…]
Basketball is a sport in which the championship, both in the US and Europe (and I imagine in other parts of the globe as well) has two distinct periods each season. The first is a round robin type of tournament, and the second is the playoffs. But which team is the best? The one that Read more about Back To The Drawing Board #11: I’m the best[…]
Angela Merkel announced to her CDU party’s committee that she won’t run for another term as party leader in December, but will remain as German Chancellor until the end of her term. A Germany (and Europe) without Merkel… How can this be? I don’t even remember when it was the last time that I was Read more about Monthly Focus Point, Nov18: Merkel steps down from German Chancellorship[…]
I recently received a newsletter from an HR agency here in Cyprus. It goes without saying that I didn’t ask for it. After a quick search through my inbox, I found out that I had sent them my CV about six(!) years ago, to apply for a post they were advertising. Apparently, they thought it’d Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #11: For boss and firm[…]
And then I reach a point where I start talking about financing options, when one of the attendees interrupted me and made me lose it with his question: “Marios, what is equity?” Here’s what I learned by having to reply a question that never expected to be asked:
Roughly 2,500 years ago, there lived a brilliant, silver-tongued, but by most accounts, ruthless and egomaniac man. A man who betrayed his country twice. (He was pardoned for his first betrayal!) A man who wanted so much to be the center of the world at all times, that when no one had anything to say Read more about Monthly Focus Point: Oct18-Nov18[…]
There is a fundamental difference between speaking the language of youth and debasing your own language because of your personal lack of intellect. A recent commercial by one of the largest banks here in Cyprus is a prime example of how the wrong individuals, in the wrong posts, at the wrong time, can gradually erode Read more about Back To The Drawing Board #9: What did you just say?[…]
I constantly recommend to people presenting me with their fake (as I like to call them) dilemmas to merely reject either of the two (or sometimes more) options/things to do that they have and get on with their lives. Most are unable to do so. They can’t say “no” to either of two people asking Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #9: What do you really want?[…]
Strategy is a Greek word. And the main reason why it passed on to so many other languages, was because it was used here, on this very ground, for the first time. Click to hear a story with great ramifications:
If change is difficult, why is that? And how is this related to the value of a business? Even more curiously, what does it have to do with a successful exit? I explain everything on: