Invest Now or Spend Later?
CFO: “What happens if we train our employees and they leave?” CEO: “What happens if we don’t train them and they stay?” Option 3: What happens if we don’t train them and then we have to fire them and start over? Businesses change. Companies buy other companies, new product lines get added, technology changes the […]
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- Jun, 24, 2019
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Jun, 24, 2019
More Than Just Training
The story goes that a CFO tells the CEO, “We need to cut back on training. What happens if we spend all this money training people, and they leave?” The CEO calmly replies, “What happens if we don’t spend the money to train them…and they stay?” Good leaders know that training their people is critical […]
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- May, 16, 2019
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Population Drop
Native populations continue to get smaller in many countries across Asia. If you’re in one of those countries, you’re likely seeing the immediate impact, and even if you’re not, there are some indirect effects hitting you. Don’t plan on the situation improving any time soon…if ever. Japan is the country most often discussed in this […]
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- Jan, 31, 2019
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Choose Your Own Learning
As a child (or as an adult, for that matter) you may have enjoyed “choose your own adventure” books. These are stories that, at certain points, give the reader a choice about an action to take and then directs you to the next page you should read. Not only does this method encourage you to […]
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- Jan, 14, 2019
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Developing Basic Professionalism
This week we were emailed by a university student in Thailand who is looking for an internship with a Bangkok hotel. He asked if we had any contacts who might be helpful. Designing Leaders has done a lot of work in the hospitality sector, so we reached out to the F&B manager at a major […]
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- Dec, 27, 2018
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