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Why excellence wins?
A legend and leader in the hotel world, Horst Schulze has reshaped the concepts of service and hospitality across the globe… Initially Schulze worked for both Hilton Hotels and Hyatt Hotels Corporation before becoming one of the founding members of The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company in 1983. At Ritz Carlton Schulze created the operating and
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Why this is the most amazing true story?
Have you heard of Siggi Wilzig? If you haven’t, you need to understand his story, what a remarkable person. Wilzig and his family were deported to one of the darkest places in the world, Auschwitz. As a teenager he watched on as his family were murdered or died of illness around him, whilst witnessing unbelievable
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Are you surrounded by idiots ?
Are you a red, blue, yellow, or Green? No. I’m not talking about football or M&M’s. I’m taking about humans. More specifically human behaviour, and how to understand those who cannot be understood. Those a little older (like me) will remember disc profiling (developed in 1928 by psychologist William Moulton). But I don’t know about
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Why it’s not just fun to wear Versace ?
Nobody would ever in a million years call me a style icon… So, why have I just spent the last week reading ‘House of Versace’ by Deborah Ball? Initially it was to understand and learn how the Versace brand was built, nearly disappeared, and then rose again from the ashes. What I didn’t expect was
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Could you be a happy sexy millionaire?
When Steven Bartlett first appeared on Dragons Den, I wanted to know his story… Not the bit about him being a multi-millionaire at 27 after floating his company on the London Stock Exchange for a couple of hundred million dollars. His real story. How did he become the person he is today? What drove him
Why turbulent times for Ryanair boss?
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has always been an interesting character to me… I’ve never been sure what to make of him. Is he that rude? Does he not care about his customers? Are his public outbursts for real or just for publicity? So, when I came across a biography not authorised by O’Leary, written by
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Tree planting gets ‘Queens’ approval
Amazingly, our tree planting exploits have received royal approval… Our planting and charity partner (Shiva Trust) have registered a selection of the tree’s we’ve planted at Meadows Farm and Animal Sanctuary with the Queens Green Canopy. The Queen’s Green Canopy is a unique tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022, inviting
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Silicon valley boffins reveal life secrets
Silicon valley is the place where the brightest kids hatch an idea, start a company with the hope of changing the world and striking it rich. Over the years Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Wolfe befriended Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal and serial investor), who introduced Wolfe to the world of silicon valley. Using the
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How paper can help us plant more trees?
Most organisations need to print certain documents, which means they buy paper… Although most paper is made using trees in managed sustainable forests, we’re still conscious to produce paper trees still need to be felled. Understanding that trees form part of the solution to addressing climate change (they take carbon out of the atmosphere and
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What will life be like after Google ?
George Gilder is one of the worlds leading economic and technological thinkers When he covers a subject such as ‘the fall of big data and the blockchain economy’ it makes you want to understand his thinking ‘Life after Google’ are his thoughts (backed by knowledge and research) on the future of the internet, and how
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Don’t leave your customers in the dark!
In 2022, office technology and supplies shopping is done on the phone, over email or online… Global IT and office product sales are predicted to hit $5 trillion in 2022; making it more important than ever to ensure the shopping experience (no matter the platform) is smooth from start to finish. Shipping and delivery doesn’t
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What is the rise of the referral model?
Been reading a marketing report today that talks about sales models… # The rise of the platform model – such as Amazon and eBay. # The rise of direct to consumer – where brands like Apple, Samsung and Nike sell direct. # The importance of bricks and mortar – in-store distribution still accounts of 80%
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Want to help us reverse climate change?
2-year ago, when we saw the Amazon burning, we never dreamed of creating a new forest… Initially we thought. how can our small office technology company impact climate change and de-forestation? After understanding that planting trees was a sure-fire way to address these issues in an affordable way, this is what we decided to do.
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Harley Earl and the rise of General Motors
Along with our office technology business, we’re also involved with an electric vehicle charge point installation business, so you’d expect I’d be mad into cars, wouldn’t you? To be honest cars are not the main interest, its business, and if cars form part of the business interest it’s a win win for me. Which is
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Why master the art of leading yourself?
Are you delivering the best version of yourself? Most of us are underachieving at life and struggle to break out of the hum drum of the daily grind, floating around in the ether without any real purpose. This is true for leaders too, those people whose job, is to inspire others. But if leaders don’t
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