I celebrate my birthday every September and it is customary that I take some of my closest (both physically and mentally) friends out at night. Birthdays, I have found out, are more than just a symbolic date at the passing of which we become a whole year older within seconds. As life moves on and Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #10: It’s about them, not me[…]
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?[…]
There is this mobile game that I like to play when I find myself in situations where I am very tired to be productive at anything, or when there is absolutely nothing else to do. What I particularly like about this game, is that I can play with one hand and much of the time Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #8: Overcomplexifying[…]
The “millennium bug” referred to a class of computer bugs related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates beginning in the year 2000. Problems were anticipated, and arose, because many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits — making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. The assumption of a Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #7: The millennial bug[…]
I have oftentimes said through this blog, as well as via other means, that the more technology is advancing, the more intrusive, not to mention abusive, marketing professionals are becoming. From the spreading of the printing press in the 1500s, to the advent of nation-wide telephone systems in the 1900s, to mass e-mail marketing in Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #6: New age marketing[…]
This week I am going to share with you a story worth-spreading. For better or worse my job entails meeting with quite a few people, most of them in high places. For better or worse, those that I meet irrespective of country and industry, are very much alike. The people one usually gets to meet Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #5: An exceptional man[…]
I listened to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday, speaking at the Regional Development Conference for the South Aegean. He once again referred to Greece’s need for “[…]a clean exit[…]” from its third (and hopefully? last?) economic adjustment program, set to conclude on 20 August 2018. Those of you who have been following my Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #4: Clean exit[…]
I remember attending a workshop organized by one of those “inspirational” speakers/coaches/messiahs/whatever you want to call them. I was never convinced of the value these individuals offer, but the workshop was sponsored and I went with a friend. So at worst, I would lose my time but get a chance to do some networking, at Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #3: A procrastinator’s best friend[…]
One of the think tanks of the European Parliament, the Economic Governance Support Unit, has been periodically publishing a number of reports and briefings on the state of play of Non-Performing Loans (“NPLs”) in the European Union. The authors of the report have broken down the various EU countries in three broad groups: “Low level Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #2: An entrepreneur’s greatest ally[…]
I received dozens of e-mails with holiday wishes during the festive season, from all kinds of companies with which I have transacted in the past. Some put me in their e-mail list despite my experience with them being deplorable at best. “Marketing experts” of all kinds insist that you must send this kind of wishes, Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #1: Marketing for all the wrong reasons[…]