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How modern backpackers find and choose hostels while traveling

Whether old or young, backpacking is becoming an increasingly popular way of seeing the world; helping meager budgets stretch as far as possible. Every year millions of people embark on extended journeys around the world. Very few of them plan their accom... Read >

Meetings at work- problems and opportunities

Does it sometimes seem to you that half the business world is always "in a meeting"? And since at least 20% of the time we spend at meetings is wasted time, do you ever wonder who is actually running businesses these days? Meetings are paradoxical. Sim... Read >

Six tips for making business presentations

Most people working in business, indeed in most organisations, are all too familiar with presentations. Making presentations is an activity almost completely divorced from the real purpose of the organisation. Doing good ones is a skill unrelated to any o... Read >

Small is beautiful

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away oh all right. In 1973, but it feels long ago and far away! Anyway, in 1973, the British economist E F Schumacher wrote "Small is Beautiful". He was praising small enterprise at a time when big companies and the newl... Read >

Getting a Good Job (Part 2)

You've done it right so far. You have researched the opportunity, produced an excellent CV (or resumé), written a great covering letter, and it has all worked. They want you to come for an interview! Now read on. The interview is your opportunity to d... Read >

Why study English?

This is an interesting question. English is a hard language to learn, and serious study of any hard subject takes time, effort and sacrifice. There are people who find it quite easy to learn new languages, but they are very few indeed. Most of us have to... Read >

The Magic of Training

Well it must be magical, because millions of companies pay billions of dollars for it. Curiously, the same companies find they can do without it when their funds run low. In fact, repeated anecdotes attest to the tendency of companies to cut back first on... Read >

Corporate culture and language learning

W H Whyte published "The Organization Man" in 1956. This was an early- perhaps even the first- attempt to describe the impact that an organisation's culture has on the way its employees behave. Since 1956 we have all become aware that there are many diffe... Read >

The global downturn: light at the end of the tunnel?

In most of the 20 biggest economies of the world the recession is still deepening. Most have already seen sharp economic downturns, and the biggest export-dependent economies, Germany and China, have seen the sharpest of all. Amid the waves of gloom ci... Read >

After the recession

What comes next? Post recession planning should start now, not be delayed until business starts to improve. It's time now to think about what the world of business will be like after the recession, and how to configure your operations for the mark... Read >