What connotations do business and money have for you? Whether positive or negative, Screw Business as Usual is a book showing you how people achieve their goals and do good while making a profit in businesses they love. How did Innocent drinks come about? How does Danone sell yoghurt in Bangladesh? And who are The Elders and what do they do? Read on! […]
Life has never before been so busy, we have never before had so many choices and neither have we previously been so disoriented. I have been meeting people who’s professional lives seem to be amazing – great education, good jobs, promising careers, financial growth. Yet, they find no joy in what they are doing. Does this sound like you? – […]
I was born behind the Berlin Wall in a family of intellectuals at a time when a degree was a valuable possession and a hard to get asset in the countries of the Eastern Block. There and at that time, having a degree equated with having a secure future, with having a good job and earning enough money to have […]
I’ve been following Chris Guillebeau’s blog for years now, I’ve read his books and I often recommend people to check his website for various ideas and inspiration. I often think of Chris when I travel, I’ve twitted him (and got a reply) to ask for best things to do in a destination or airport and I am hoping that when […]
I’ve always liked stories so I wasn’t surprised to discover that some of my favourite classes when I was studying for my Sociology degree were anthropology and ethnography, nor that later on my surveys required collecting qualitative rather than quantitative data. So I was obviously entranced when I received an adults’ book full of stories. Why read Women Who Run […]
We live in a culture of expected instant gratification, of stories with overnight successes, and of articles and courses on how to hack your way to success and get rich quick. Yes, you might be writing the next Harry Potter series, who am I to question that, and even the first Harry Potter novel was first published and became a […]
