Human Population Through Time
Did you know it took ‘us’ 200,000 years to reach a population of 1 billion and that only 200 years later we reached 7 billion! Growth has began to slow, as women, on average,...
Author: Rogier H.C.M. Want
Legendary Deal-Maker Urges: Ditch Underperforming CEO’s Quick!
Henry Kravis is a Wall Street LEGEND! The firm he founded with his cousin George Roberts in 1976, KKR, now manages over $130 billion in assets. Kravis is worth an estimated $5 billion, yet,...
The Business of Poverty and Food Companies
Food companies in industrial countries are registering almost no economic growth. Large multinationals, such as Nestle and Unilever, started to look for a fix. The fix they found, by targeting threshold and developing countries, like Brazil...
Judge Absolutely DESTROYED Monsanto’s Subpoena on Avaaz!
So, Monsanto got a little upset with Avaaz, because in another successful campaign by Avaaz, they managed to convince the European Union to refuse to grant Monsanto a renewal license for its main product and...
Swiss Share Selfies and Salary Information in Attempt to end Pay Discrimination
Swiss trade union Unia has spearheaded the creation of a new website inviting anyone in the country to post their salaries, accompanied by a selfie. The website zeigdeinenlohn.ch (meaning show your salary), went live last...
Quote of the Month
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. Ernest Hemingway Every first week of the month we upload one quote. A quote, a...
The Inspiring Story of ‘Ubuntu’
So, the story goes that an anthropologist went to the Bantu tribe in Africa were he learned an interesting lesson. Below the story of his experiment and the unexpected outcome! An anthropologist proposed...
This Cap Saves Lives!
Sometimes a relatively ‘simple’ innovation can turn out to be an extraordinary find, especially when you consider that in the US alone, according to the The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drowsy driving caused 72,000...
See How Far This Guy Has Come!
Life has many mysteries and one of them has to do with why certain people/companies achieve astronomical success while others don’t. Sure, the subject has been extensively studied and, of course, certain conclusions have...
Modern Wealth: Not Defined by Money
When Charles Schwab asked Americans to define wealth for its 2018 Modern Wealth Index, two of the top three most popular answers they received had nothing to do with money! What mattered most? Well, for...
