The Fukushima Prefecture in Northeastern Japan has been little known to foreigners until the disastrous accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March this year. Watching the terrible consequences of the release of radiation in a densely populated industrialized country has alerted many people around the world. While the danger of nuclear accidents [...]
Common sense suggests that a leader needs followers. Hence leadership is the ability to motivate people to voluntarily follow you. In order to accomplish that you need to possess a set of qualities that benefits your followers and commands respect. Both aspects are very important. The most respected person will fail as a leader if [...]
A leader leads by example not by force.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu
With Sun Tzu being one of the most famous, China has been blessed with numerous outstanding strategists in influential positions.
Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, was an ancient Chinese philosopher and strategist who lived several centuries BC. Many of [...]
Like tens of thousands of travellers across Europe, I got stuck at Berlin’s Tegel airport (TXL) for more than 10 hours on my way from Miami to Munich, Germany just a few days ago. Leaving Miami on a sunny day with temperatures well above 70 degrees, I arrived in Berlin about 9.5 hours later, hoping to make [...]
The recent surge of the U.S. dollar against other major currencies - most notably the euro due to Greece’s financial woes - could potentially be severely damaging to the American economy.
The strengthening of the dollar is obviously not accompanied by a strenghtening of the overall economy. Unemployment is still at 9.7%, President Obama just recently proposed his $ [...]
