It’s been a year here at MNConsulting! We have produced massive of amounts of content-all things considered-both paid and free, both on the website and Twitter. Here’s a quick look into what’s coming up next. (You WILL be interested in this!)
People tend to donate more and be kinder to each other, when they feel that they have already earned enough. “Enough” differs from one person to the next. It has to do with how much each of us values themselves in their head. Click to hear how this relates to your business, on this month’s Read more about Back To The Drawing Board #12: Enough[…]
US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, met on 30 November 2018, during the G20 summit in Argentina. The purpose of the meeting was to find some common ground and thus ease the tensions that arose between the two superpowers, after the US’s increasing of tariffs on imports from China, and a Read more about Monthly Focus Point, Nov18 -Dec18: US-China trade war: Is China not strong enough yet?[…]
Someone once said that when asking people about their greatest fears, public speaking came first, and death, a close second. Which is fairly funny to think that people attending a funeral, would prefer being inside the coffin than reciting a funeral oration. (Thankfully for us, Pericles didn’t have the same issues and thus ended up Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #12: The greatest fear in the 21st century[…]
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:
There’s a real issue of delinquent behavior that goes largely unpunished and fuels many western societies with despair. Dracon, in Ancient Athens tried to fix this by instituting harsh punishments for every minor offence. Nowadays, we have ended up on the other end, giving wrongdoers and even common thugs more rights than us. And as Read more about Back To The Drawing Board #10: Justice, vengeance and Dracon[…]