Jack Ma — born Ma Yun — was born on October 15, 1964, in Hangzhou, located in the southeastern part of China. He has an older brother and a younger sister. He and his siblings grew up at a…
If you truly want to change other people’s perception of you, the important thing is to land your messages properly, according to American pollster Dr Frank Luntz in his book ‘Words That Work: it’s not what you say, it’s…
Even though my mother was a successful entrepreneur, it never occurred to me that I could be. So when all my university friends started drifting into corporate jobs, I thought I should too. I craved constant change and bounced from…
Because there’s power in self-confidence. Here’s how to get it: Look at yourself. Who do you see? Superhero, muscles bulging, cape flying—ready to conquer the world? No? If you don’t believe you can conquer the world, then there’s no way you ever…
She grew up on a council estate. Now she’s the boss of Specsavers… and three times richer than the Queen. Dame Mary Perkins is the 73-year-old founder of Specsavers Opticians She’s Britain’s first self-made female billionaire and worth £1.6 billions Mary…
The 23 expert tips that could help you clinch the job Classic final job interview question is ‘do you have any questions?’ But many candidates can be bamboozled by this and wonder what to ask This is Money asked experts…
– according to their employees 6. Ladbrokes – 2.3/5 Betting firm Ladbrokes has a rating of just 2.3/5, with workers complaining of “lone working” and difficulty dealing with “abusive customers”. Others lambasted the company over its merger with Coral, which…
– according to their employees The Financial Ombudsman, Laura Ashley and Ladbrokes are some of the worst companies to work for in the UK, according to employee ratings on the job site Glassdoor. The website holds a database of millions of company…
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors in…
Parker was born in a poor coal-mining town in rural Ohio, the youngest of four children. Her parents divorced when she was two, and her mother remarried shortly thereafter and had an additional four children. Parker’s stepfather, a truck driver,…
