Career guides
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Paralympics: Boccia team wins Thailand's third gold (Updated)
Like true champions, Thailand's mixed pair boccia team beat Japan in the gold medal round, overcoming severe disabilities to win the country's third gold of the Rio Paralympic Games Please ...
12 Sep 2016 at 10:44
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Refining the 2017 business plan
'Coach Kriengsak, I will have a meeting with my top leadership team next week on our 2017 business plan," Kitti tells me. "The objective will be to get mutual agreement on key assumptions that we w...
12 Sep 2016 at 04:30
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Three simple steps towards an effective talent programme
Imagine that you are the CEO of an organisation. Besides business performance, you have to take care of many important people issues, and succession planning for important positions is second to no...
8 Sep 2016 at 04:00
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When the thief holds the key to the cashbox: detecting internal fraud
Much attention is given these days to corruption. Political leaders rant and rave against it, and politicians in general demand its eradication. But in most countries they are the biggest miscreant...
5 Sep 2016 at 12:50
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Managers also to blame for poor team performance
When teams are not performing well, many managers believe the cause is the poor performers under them. That might be partially true, but from my experience, most managers are also a major source of...
5 Sep 2016 at 04:30
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Message in a bottle: How to become a more fluent creative thinker (Part 2)
Two weeks ago, we discussed how your inner critic prevents you from being a fluent creative thinker, leading you to produce only a few, typically ordinary ideas during an ideation exercise. This is...
1 Sep 2016 at 04:00
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Secrets of successful selection
There are now about 300 third-party recruiters in Thailand who are licenced to help recruit Thais for jobs in Thailand. Not many know this, but the recruitment industry in Thailand is extremely reg...
29 Aug 2016 at 12:38
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Becoming a more self-aware CEO
CEOs are usually smart people who are very good when it comes to business skills. But many lack self-awareness, stemming from a misunderstanding of intent and impact. Most smart people have...
29 Aug 2016 at 04:30
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Seven steps to working in harmony
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," the writer HG Wells once said. However, what happens to employees or executives who have made great contributions to an organisati...
25 Aug 2016 at 04:00
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Women in business
Until the more progressive countries of the World came to recognise the realities of "LGBT", it was popularly believed that all of society was born into two roughly equal groups. There were little ...
22 Aug 2016 at 14:52