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How your business can plan for an uncertain future

If anything is certain in this world, it’s the uncertain. ‘Uncertainty’ conjures many negative connotations and these differ amongst each of us, because uncertainty dictates a shift in how we execute our role and responsibilities. For example, for senior business executives uncertainty may mean doubt, risk and mistrust more than anything else given that their remit is ensuring the corporate reputation is intact. Conversely, for entry level professionals, uncertainty may predominantly mean an increase in anxiety, fear and overall stress levels. ...

Accounting for Fitness

Lifestyle coach Beth Wright, founder of Fit & Fabulous, checks in with clients daily to ensure they don’t fall off the fitness wagon ...

Challenging Times

The THEi X SCMP Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge fosters new leaders ...

Can Buying A Suit Save A Life? - We Believe It Can

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Gem of an idea

Theodore Ma uses family business know-how to help start-ups succeed, writes Andrea Zavadszky. ...

Mastering the machine

Ben Horowitz’s book on building business takes on tough topics, writes Nick Walker. ...

Empowering enterprise

Universities team up with industry to offer career-focused courses for students and community, writes Hilda Poon. ...

Start-ups fill void left by Spain’s 26pc jobless rate

Over the first seven months of the year, registrations of self-employed people in Spain rose by 21,992 while they fell by 6,826 over the same period a year earlier. Thanks to necessity entrepreneurship – people who create a business to exit unemployment rather than by opportunity – the number of companies created increased by 8.2 per cent in the first half as a 26pc jobless rate spurs entrepreneurship in a country where the government still accounts for one in six jobs. ...

Super-sized debt crushes business dreams of US grads

Former students hobbled by a collective US$1 trillion in education loans can be hindered in expanding or forming small businesses and creating jobs for themselves and others ...