Reasons Why Small Businesses Fail in the Post-COVID Era In numerous countries, 2021 will be a year of exceptional economic growth. Not a surprise — it partially offsets the tragic numbers of 2020. Some nations, like Sweden or the United Kingdom, returned to the Pre-Covid levels already in the first semester. Below I list 3 major reasons […]
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My first contact with Nassim Taleb was more than 10 years ago. I was still a junior stockbroker in Brazil. From there, things changed — I moved 16 times to 4 different countries, changed jobs, and opened my first (and then second) business. I also continued reading whatever I could from the Lebanese dilletante, including his Incerto
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Employer attractiveness is not about the fridge full of ice cream. During my last semester at the University of Sao Paulo, there was a book causing a gigantic corridor buzz. The name of it was Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman It covers, among other themes, human cognitive biases. One of the most discussed subjects
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What is Productivity? First, it is important to make clear what I mean by productivity. Let’s adopt the simplest definition: it is the output divided by time (or resources used). Productivity is, in this sense, analogous to the rate of production. A way to measure it is by GDP produced by every worked hour. On
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A Real-Life Example of Competitive Benchmarking All Good to Great companies began the process of finding a path to greatness by confronting the brutal facts about the reality of their business. When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident. (Jim Collins) Imagine
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If you are an entrepreneur or aspire to open your own company, I would bet that the last 12 months made you think twice. At least this was my case as an owner of two different businesses. One is in the hospitality industry, and the other is a consultancy, and both suffered during the Covid-19
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The chances that in 2022, things will go back to normal are, at best, limited. For this reason, we separated the 4 best videos for entrepreneurs to watch in 2022. You can also take a look at our list of the best business channels on Youtube and the books every entrepreneur should read. 5 Reasons
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If you occasionally spend holidays abroad, at least once you wasted money on something, and later realized how easy was to avoid the mistake. Maybe you ate the courtesy breadbasket in a Portuguese restaurant, without knowing it was not for free. Maybe during your last ski trip, you took a taxi to the slopes, just
In 2009, Nokia was the 5th most valuable brand in the world. Their phones were an object of desire everywhere. One year before I bought a used N80, and even with a few scratches, it looked so much better than the competing phones. Fast-forward to 2014 and Nokia dropped to 98th place in the ranking.
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Business Risk Assessments for Every Entrepreneur A simple but efficient way to assess the types of business risk is the Impact vs Likehood matrix. Often we learn it at business school, but later in our careers and projects, we forget it. Big mistake! This is an exceptional tool for entrepreneurs and managers when assessing uncontrollable
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