At some stage in your life, you are going be standing in front of an audience to present something. The audience may be a mere handful of people whose faces you can make out; or you may be privileged enough to be standing somewhere blinking at bright lights, wired up and about to recorded for […]
Skills to survive and succeed at work
On 10th December, I was invited by the University of Malta to give a lecture on business skills in the work place. The lecture was part of the DegreePlus programme, which provides young people with practical skills and formative experiences. I like this programme – it always strikes me that most people are totally unprepared for […]
Seth’s out to change lives
I never got an MBA. I’ve mentored a few, managed to get into Cranfield School of Management to pursue a PhD.. but, somehow, work, running a business, moving countries, having a child, always pushed academia to the side. And I guess with time you realise that you can never stop learning. And that the structured […]
Serious skills part 2
Ann E W Stone says that she once read a book that changed the course of her career, and her life. She learnt that people make snap decisions on others based on ‘signals; and that it was within one’s power to manage those signals. The first part of her transformation was to understand the operating […]
Serious skills part 1
On Tuesday I trudged to the Chamber of Commerce to listen to a 90-minute talk by Ann E W Stone, founder of The Stone Group , an international business and political consultancy. I was intrigued by the tile of the session: ’25 skills that signal you are to be taken seriously’. In the first part […]