Construction is big business, often quite literally. The construction industry is all about growing your business. A hiring a company that is properly regulated though possibly more expensive can be the difference between a new building that is perfect and ready to use and a muddy hole in the ground […]
Rules
Coping with Change: Develop Your Personal Strategy
Why do we resist change? As the saying goes, the only people who like change are busy cashiers and wet babies. We find change disorienting, creating within us an anxiety similar to culture shock, the unease visitors to an alien land feel because of the absence of the familiar cues […]
China SOX – When Does it Come Into Effect?
The Basic Standard for Enterprise Internal Control (“China SOX” or “C-SOX”) was announced in China with great fanfare in the summer of 2008. However, more than a year after the announcement of this new risk management and internal control regulation, there is still confusion in the market over when it […]
Risks, Rewards, and Dangers of ICOs
Bitcoin created a revolution by introducing the first-ever decentralized digital currency in which people and businesses control their transactions instead of banks and credit cards. Now, we have another revolution in the form of Initial Coin Offering (ICO). What Is An Initial Coin Offering (ICO)? An ICO is a relatively […]
Why Dance, Why Not – A Book Review on Dancing
Over the years, I’ve been very impressed with what Sir Ken Robinson has to say about creativity in our schools. He explains the problem with rote memorization, and seems to speak with the aversion that most Americans have with the No Child Left Behind legislation (NCLB). Some of my friends […]
International Regulations for Cryptocurrencies Will Create Win-Win Situations
The backdrop Initial Coin Offering on blockchain platforms has painted the world red for tech-startups across the world. A decentralised network that can allocate tokens to the users supporting an idea with money is both revolutionizing and awarding. Profit-spinning Bitcoin turned out to be an ‘asset’ for early investors giving […]