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April 24, 2012
Strategy: Leaders

Professor Graham Jones, founder of Top Performance Consulting, outlines how we can ensure the future health of our organisations through ‘real’ leadership.

Professor Graham Jones, founder of Top Performance Consulting, outlines how we can ensure the future health of our organisations through ‘real’ leadership.

 

My experience of coaching numerous senior leaders has led to my realisation that there are two broad sets of motives for being a leader that drive different behaviours and lead to different impacts on organisations. I have consequently identified two types of leader, which I call ‘real’ and ‘safe’. 

March 5, 2012
Sustainability: Green business

Zhike Lei, assistant professor at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, explains why corporate tree-hugging is no longer enough in the battle to tackle the sustainability challenge.

Zhike Lei, assistant professor at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, explains why corporate tree-hugging is no longer enough in the battle to tackle the sustainability challenge.

January 23, 2012
TesMan Inc.

Rod Steele, founder of the mining advisory firm TesMan, shares  his unique approach to generating process improvement through innovation.

Rod Steele, founder of the mining advisory firm TesMan, shares with Jane Alverca his unique approach to generating process improvement through innovation.

 

Rod Steele, founder of TesMan, is a man very much at home in the deep, dark voids of the earth’s interior. After a long career managing complex mining operations and maintenance programmes around the world, he decided to found his own company to shine a new light on the technical challenges of this subterranean world.

November 17, 2011
Where the jobs are: Phoenix and Salt Lake City

A comparison of job opportunities and economic growth in two US cities.

Salt Lake City, Utah is a better bet for job hunters than Phoenix, Arizona, according to Going Global’s new reports Where the Jobs Are: Phoenix and Salt Lake City. While Salt Lake City has been fairly insulated from the global economic downturn, Phoenix, which was heavily reliant on the construction industry, has seen its unemployment rate more than double since the recession began.

October 10, 2011
More jobs than workers in UAE

High, tax-free salaries welcome expat workers in the United Arab Emirates, according to a new report by Going Global.

There are twice as many jobs as there are nationals of working age in the United Arab Emirates, according to a new report by Going Global, a leading provider of employment, career and culture resources.

August 19, 2011
Capricorn

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 to be the International Year of Co-operatives (IYC) and Capricorn Society Ltd is embracing the opportunity.

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 to be the International Year of Co-operatives (IYC) and Trent Bartlett, for the last 10 years CEO of Capricorn Society Ltd and a founder of Social Business Australia,has taken on the job of chairing the IYC 2012’s Australian Secretariat. We talk to him about Capricorn, IYC, and his vision for the co-operative movement.

 

July 19, 2011
Opportunities in Brazil

Brazil’s job market is booming, according to Going Global’s new Brazil employment outlook.

As it begins preparations to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Brazil, South America’s largest country and economy, is one of the first emerging markets to begin an economic recovery, according to a new report from Going Global, a leading provider of employment, career and culture resources.

With an unemployment rate of 6.1 percent, Brazil is experiencing job growth and talent shortages in many sectors.

June 28, 2011
Spark ATM Systems

In less than five years, Spark ATM Systems has deployed a nationwide network of ATMs across South Africa. Managing director Marc Sternberg talks about the innovations behind this success and the plan to capture 50 per cent of the market in the next two years.

It’s taken Spark ATM Systems under five years to deploy a nationwide network of ATMs across South Africa, using cutting-edge technology and based on a strong ethos of customer service. Managing director Marc Sternberg talks to Gay Sutton about the innovations behind this success and the plan to capture 50 per cent of the market in the next two years.

 

June 7, 2011
Barr & Barr

Building relationships through personal service lays a foundation of confidence that encourages customers to come back.

Building relationships through personal service lays a foundation of confidence that encourages customers to come back.

 

March 21, 2011
Employment danger zones: How to prepare for an emergency, and what to do if you are caught in one

Many overseas workers have suddenly found themsleves caught up in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, or political turmoil in the Middle East. Here's some good advice.

There are 2.2 million foreigners, including a good number of Americans, currently living and working in Japan and all of them should have an exit strategy, according to Going Global, a leading provider of country-specific employment information.

November 23, 2010
Devmark Property Group

Looking at the bigger picture has always been a must for success; and in the case of Devmark Property Group, it led to a withdrawal from the residential market just before the bottom dropped out. Founder and group managing director Hein Ehlers tells all to Andrew Pelis.

Looking at the bigger picture has always been a must for success; and in the case of Devmark Property Group, it led to a withdrawal from the residential market just before the bottom dropped out. Founder and group managing director Hein Ehlers tells all to Andrew Pelis.

 

 

 

September 8, 2010
Sumitomo Metal Mining: Pogo Mine

Rising gold prices have seen a global surge in gold mining operations. Todd Roth at Sumitomo Metal Mining tells Andrew Pelis how Japanese experience has been applied to North American reserves.

Rising gold prices have seen a global surge in gold mining operations. Todd Roth at Sumitomo Metal Mining tells Andrew Pelis how Japanese experience has been applied to North American reserves.

 

Alaska’s remote wilderness may seem an unlikely setting for Japanese prosperity, yet beneath the hills and valleys lies that most precious of commodities: gold.

August 7, 2010
Sustainability

Green tips from the Cheetah team.

Green tips by Michelle LaBrosse, founder of Cheetah Learning and Cheetah Power, and Erica Edmond, CAPM, Cheetah Green Team.

 

 

 

Once upon a time, saving the environment seemed to be limited to a yearly celebration called Earth Day where, like New Year’s Eve, people made resolutions they wouldn’t necessarily keep.

January 6, 2010
Yonkers raceway

A $285 million investment at Yonkers Raceway has equipped the venue for the 21st century

A $285 million investment at Yonkers Raceway has equipped the venue for the 21st century. Ben Sansom reports on an expansion program which has enabled the historic venue to thrive where many others have suffered in the recent economic slowdown
 

September 1, 2009
Contour Premium Aircraft Seating

Sitting comfortably
Competition within the aerospace sector is rife as airlines fight to offer travellers the greatest level of comfort. When the world’s biggest companies—such as Emirates or Air France—look for new innovations, they turn to Wales, and to Contour Premium Aircraft Seating.
Contour Premium Aircraft Seating works closely with the world’s leading airlines to design and develop bespoke premium seating that will create competitive advantage and strongly differentiate an airline from its competitor.

August 1, 2009
Aurum Exploration Services

Information central
Aurum Exploration Services started in a cyclical downturn, so it knows how to cope with current conditions—via original ideas, comprehensive resources and customer service, as Ruari McCallion found.
The name says a lot, but not everything. Aurum is the Latin for gold, so you would expect Aurum Exploration Services to be interested in the yellow stuff. And it is—but not to the exclusion of all else.