New Headquarter
How did the Pandemic impact our Workplace? Before the pandemic, the conventional wisdom had been that offices were critical to productivity, culture, and winning the war for talent. Companies competed intensely for prime office space in major urban centers around the world, and many focused-on solutions that were seen to promote collaboration. Densification, open-office designs, […]
Crisis Management
Any company is susceptible Researchers and practitioners have variously defined the meaning of crisis. But perhaps one of the most comprehensive definitions is “a major, unpredictable event has potentially negative results. The event and its aftermath may significantly damage an organization and its employees, products, services, financial condition and reputation” (Zaremba, 2010). However, in order […]
WFH
It is the new norm My job has been always mandating that work is not a place to go to every day, since 2010, I am working from anywhere, literally anywhere, airport, bars, airplanes, cafés, restaurant, pools hotel rooms, cars, and sometime offices. I had many stories to tell. I always remember falling asleep while […]
Deep Dive
Snorkeling is not enough! The main reason consultancy firms established is to provide advice and directions in all business fields in order to improve clients’ businesses; the need for consultancy increases after disruptions occurs in specific industry, geography, function or general world conditions such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic challenges that hit almost all sectors, […]
Showing Up
Job performance is not about showing up anymore! For decades, many organizations – if not all – prioritized showing up no matter what for their employees. So, the employee knew what they were expected to do and how to achieve this, so they went to the office, and many of them took pride on their […]
10 Steps I Don’t Know To Become A Good Leader
It is Ok not to know I just found out 48 hours before my deadline, that It is my turn to write an article contributing to Pinnacle’s Knowledge Base. I am deeply engaged in planning activities, reviewing 2020 – still – and building plans for the three coming years with all the dynamics and disruptions […]
Trimming The Fat Off Your Business
Trimming the Fat: Restructuring for Healthier Business Restructuring your business is not just about cutting costs or laying off employees to save their salaries; Trimming the fat basically means optimizing your company from top to bottom. There is a common misconception about this term standing just for reducing company’s expenses while in reality it is […]
Boost your personal image
Personal Image Branding and Career Excellence The personality of people reflects their identity, where each individual acquires his or her qualities from the social aspects surrounding them. They establish their behavior and practice within the cultural framework where they grow up in, learn from, and interact with. It is where the intellectual and behavioral patterns […]
Emotional Intelligence
The needed skill A lot of articles and books were written about emotional intelligence, as many believe that it is crucial to learn about it in order to use in the daily life and in the workplace. Moreover, many believe that emotional intelligence should even be taught at schools. Obviously, this topic has been […]
Evolution of The Cloud
Cloud Computing – Evolution Well, it is not new! Ethernet was created in 1973 by a team at the Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in California. The team, led by American electrical engineer Robert Metcalfe, sought to create a technology that could connect many computers over long distances. It was demonstrated in […]
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior Any organization depends on three arms to achieve its goals, The People, The Process, and the Technology. Those three arms will help any business leader to achieve his Strategic business plans, and if any arm of the three is not functioning then as a business leader you will find yourself in a pickle. […]
The Human Policies & Procedures
Do I really need written Policies? Are you an SME’s or even a large Firm? Do you have an updated Code of Business Ethics/Information Security as a Policy in your HR manual to match the current pandemic crisis? Are your Employees working from home? What is the risk of not having this critical policy updated and […]