From the garage of a small home started a journey with the crystallization of an idea in the mind of a 30-year-old American young man. At the time, his capital amounted to zero. Added to that, he was not optimistic about the success of his idea. In 1995, he worked for a company that operates […]
One night, as I was on my way coming back home, I received a call from a training company approaching me to deliver a training course to one of its reputable clients. Since the offer was below my expectations, I politely turned down that assignment. However, the caller was so persistent in trying to get […]
1. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had — every day I’m learning something new.” – Richard Branson 2. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey 3. “If you’re […]
In today’s workplace, most of the information that we need to perform our roles on a day-to-day basis is unstructured and continuously changing. The information transferred through traditional training interventions, prevalent in most of our organizations, will often be out-of-date by the time we need to use it. In fact, research indicates that we learn […]
When To Fire Yourself… My job involves conducting a lot of interviews as part of the gap analysis. Of course, before I start my questions, I give the interviewees a brief about what I do, why I’m here and also, why they’re here. In order for them to feel comfortable, I assure them that our […]
Social Emotional Learning is gaining more worldwide attention in schools: from New York to Singapore and from London to Abu Dhabi there is a growing realization that EQ is just as important as IQ. Social Emotional Learning helps children deal with their feelings and has a positive effect on their school performance. Social-emotional skills are […]
If you are a start-up founder or entrepreneur, you are balancing every decision, every choice and every investment. So let me ask you what are the MUST HAVE investments for any entrepreneur? Technology – YES Marketing – YES Sales – YES Reputation Management – What do you think? Two oft repeated questions I hear from […]
Tell Us Your Name and What You Currently Do? I’m Victoria Song, and I’m a Leadership Advisor to successful founders and CEOs of the fastest growing technology companies in Silicon Valley and celebrities with power, platform and influence. I’m also the author of the new book, Bending Reality: How to Make the Impossible Probable which […]
A study ‘How imposter syndrome and fears hinder women entrepreneurs’ business growth, published by Business Horizons, in Volume 62, Issue 5, 2019 sheds significant insights in to why this might be more prevalent for women entrepreneurs. The authors Kimberly Eddleston, Jamie Ladge and Keimei Sugiyama state “One reason why it’s easy for women entrepreneurs to […]
In 2002, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, was flying a helicopter in the “Saruq Al-Hadid” area located in the South Dubai Emirate at the northern edge of Rub’ al Khali desert. That was when he noticed a strange difference in the shape of the sand dunes and that […]
