Unit 3 Essay: Taxation and Representation – A Debate In the years between the end of the French and Indian War and the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, 1763-1775, the colonies and the mother country debated the right of Parliament to legislate for the colonies. The British claimed that Parliament held this right without question, while the colonies insisted that only a body which they […]

Monitoring the activities of someone always sounds very thrilling and commanding. People admire the spies in movies tracking the activities of the others. The spooks running surveillance on others also look very adventurous. Yet, monitoring and tracking is a thankless job in real life. It is boring, tedious and demanding. A simple mistake, an innocent failure to notice or even a misjudgment while monitoring can […]

This has been a rough flu season. Our whole team is virtual, and none of us are in the same city, but some how we all caught the flu off each other! It seemed like every week we had a different team member out sick. Luckily it looks like this year’s flu season is slowing down, and we’ll be over the worst of it soon. […]

Ever been in a meeting when an executive with real leadership skill walks into the room? Everything subtly changes. Voices quiet, smiles widen, backs straighten, and anticipation heightens. That effect is less about title and more about the qualities others perceive this executive has. In the business world, those qualities loosely fit under an umbrella called “executive presence” and while we may have trouble defining […]

ISTORY 102 Q

I have worked with players and coaches of many teams that have undergone a regime change while I was working with them. As a result, I have been fortunate enough to have an inside view of many of the dynamics that are affected when this happens. Many, but not all, of the ones I have been involved with, occurred because of disappointing prior results. These […]

SMC used to be one of the major Palestinian auto dealers for several world leading German, English and French car brands. After a series of financial and managerial problems, the company had lost, or was forced to sell several of its exclusive dealership agreements to other competitors. Having only one or two major brand names remaining under its umbrella, the company was finally bought out […]

Foreword: Executing and operating a contract is our day to day activity. We will enter into a contract knowingly and some unknowingly (example: oral contracts). An agreement is formed if the offer by one party is being accepted by other and if such agreement is enforceable under law it becomes a contract. Generally, for contracts of less value/consideration, the tendency is to go with formats […]

Humans thrive on having a pecking order. Company structure, alpha male, top dog, queen bee, better half, boss around here, or whatever you call it; there is no single company, family, community or nation that does not have a pecking order – no matter how subtle it may be. Humans obsess with pecking orders, some aim high, always striving to raise their position within companies […]

If you are having trouble with a very large project, consulting the ancient Chinese text known as the I Ching can help. To start with, if you have no idea what the I Ching is or how to use it, I lay out the basic three coin method for using the I Ching in a separate article. You can use the I Ching for anything […]