Negotiation occupies a dominant position in the business world, particularly when it involves international transactions. Understanding and managing cultural differences are essential to successful negotiations in an increasingly globalised commercial environment.
As ASOS issues its second profit warning in seven months, the online fashion retailer whose issues are said to come from warehouse-related confusion, non-functioning Eurolab software and troubled third-party brands, is not giving up the fight against these operational challenges just yet.
Brand loyalty is a pressing issue for businesses nowadays. The probability of selling a product or service to an existing customer is 60-70%, with 65% of a company’s business said to come from existing customers.
You didn’t work as diligently as you have to be second guessed. When you finally earned your position as CEO, you thought distrusting superiors and colleagues would become a relic of your early career.
As leaders we all know that feeling of not wanting to go to a difficult meeting and that we’d rather be anywhere else! It’s par for the job, so we must model calm, high standards and belief in the organisation’s purpose to keep the team on track and inspire them to greater things!
A number of factors are forcing businesses to transform and incorporate new trends at an unprecedented rate. Disruptive technology, new agile business models and changing working practices are all contributing to this shift.
By Louisa Rochford The tech industry and Silicon Valley have had their fair share of ups and downs in a matter of years – in the last year alone, data breaches have felt like a daily occurrence. From Facebook to Quora to British Airways, security has become of major concern, with 945 worldwide breaches […]
Ever since its slow but grand inception in the tech scene, Microsoft has been carrying the torch of computing technology and though rivalled by many great firms, it has maintained its competitiveness across several tech spheres and markets. But how has it managed to excel so profusely of late? Microsoft, being such a prevalent […]
Rob Orr is Executive Director at Virgin Media Business, one of the UK’s leading communications providers, responsible for leading the enterprise, public sector, wholesale, SME and SI Channel businesses. He has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector, including past experience at Samsung Electronics, BT and Vodafone. Rob explores the practical questions that […]
Who is the leader who has had the greatest (positive) impact on you? What did they do, how did they behave to have an impact on you? What made the difference?
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