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Understanding cultural differences. The British, like all nations, have their peculiarities, some of which are quite amusing.

Business strategy, while it’s essential to have a strategy in your business, it must be flexible enough to cope with the unexpected.

After decades of sniggering every time someone used IRREGARDLESS when they meant regardless, we’ve been forced to admit that it’s a real word

An effective approach for a job application is to consider yourself in the same way brands do when creating marketing campaigns.

Some years ago, one experiment has been set up to test the appeal of something for nothing: the power of free. Learn this important lesson.

The science of decision making is that excitement you feel when you’ve made a decision and you’re convinced it’s the right one.

Ernest Hemingway friends should have been cautious when he bet them each $10 that he could write a complete story in six words. What happens?

Create your own lists and remember, every presentation, media conference, sales pitch, speech and publicity campaign is different.

The film “Meetings, Bloody Meetings” shows a look at the waste of time and effort that results when meetings are poorly planned and organized.

The English language is a true reflection of its history. Many foreign languages have contributed with words and phrases to modern English.

Much energy is focused on clear and accurate external communications with clients and suppliers. Most companies manage it closely.

There’s always lots of advice for giving presentations but not a lot for attending presentations. Here’s what my experience has taught me.

When you’ve decided to leave your job, think about how to handle your resignation, when you work for a small company or a big corporation.

Many workers fear appearing uncommitted if they use the all holidays, and their bosses won’t think they’re worthy of promotion or a pay rise.

In work and in life, any decision is better than none. A true and much more tragic example comes from the aviation industry, learn more.

Oxymorons are used to create a variety of effects.They can add a touch of colour or humour, drama or mystery to writing or speech.

How to use the plural pronoun ‘we’ with the adjective ‘our’ and the pronoun ‘ours’ when writing on behalf of a company, organisation or a team.

Most of your emails are sent to instant oblivion, to junk folder of blocked as spam. A massive waste of time and effort. What do you do?

No one is indispensable, and it’s true, but there are ways we can try and make ourselves indispensable, and here are the strongest.

Markets reach saturation and revenues stagnation.The only key that can reverse the decline is innovation through management communications.

In 1893, an American drug store owner, Caleb Bradham, invented a carbonated soft drink to sell from the soda fountain in his store. Pepsi Cola

Everyone has their favourite techniques for negotiations. The teams sit for hours in meeting rooms plotting their strategies into the night.

Weasels are small mammals found in most parts of the world other than Australia and Antarctica. What are weasel words and why do we use them?

The average executive spends 25% of their working day on emails. So it’s obvious that the first rule of emailing is: Read more here!