August 2012
8 posts
How does your company treat its women work force?...
Shattering the Glass Ceiling to Advance Women into Leadership Positions
A BCG Study Identifies the Barriers to Career Advancement for Women
Fully 85 percent of leading organizations view gender diversity as a top priority relative to other diversity issues. However, only about one in five companies have a targeted recruiting strategy for female talent, and only one in four offer job-sharing...
Creating a Job Market Online
Creating a job market online Bayt.com has successfully integrated social media into their recruitment process to become a pioneer in the online recruitment industry.
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new”. — Steve Jobs.
This ideology of the late tech guru is in sync...
Vision Statements - Wishful Communications?
An elderly woman rubs a lamp she finds while walking along a beach when out pops a genie that offers to grant her one wish. “I’d like world peace,” she says without hesitation. “Hmmm, that might be a bit hard,” says the genie, “try another one.” “Ok,” says the woman, “here comes my husband, can you turn him into a handsome man?” ...
A Treasured Investment
Whether it’s art, jewellery or classic cars, there are certain objects that will always hold their value and may even earn you a tidy profit. So with falling property prices and poor returns on cash, it’s perhaps not surprising there has been renewed interest in alternative investments as an asset class.
[[MORE]] Let’s face it, the idea of hanging a beautiful piece of art on...
Qatar continuing with European Market strategy
Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth fund is showing its capacity all over World, but it seems to be focusing much of it’s attention on Europe - a region that is coming under relentless economic pressure.
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The last five years has seen Qatar build up an impressive portfolio of high-profile overseas assets. In April, the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar’s sovereign wealth...
Looking Forward to the Past
A main feature of Qatar today is the extraordinary speed with which the country is developing. Using whatever major measure of success, Qatar is at the front, or among the front runners. Growth in GDP; investment in research and development; speed and scale of urban development and regeneration; you name it. All eyes in Qatar are looking forward, planning for the next major infrastructure...
The Pearl of Qatar
Pearl-Qatar has become one of the country’s iconic symbols, renowned throughout the world as the flagship development of new Qatar. Built on an artificial island, this predilection of luxury oozes with class and sophistication and attracts the affluent and the well-to-do. As it enters into a new phase of maturity and size, however, will it broaden its appeal to more mid-market clientele?
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Hydrating the Gulf
Qatar Today continues with its analysis of water security issues in Qatar and the Gulf region in general, following July’s revelations that low tariffs and a profligate attitude to its preciousness are the main reasons for its high consumption levels here. It revealed that over 80% of the water usage is for agricultural purposes - where it takes 50 litres to produce a single date fruit and a...
