Day: March 26, 2020

THE ROVING DIPLOMAT

The overshadowing event on the international scene at the moment is the apparent failure of the Arab Summit, which was held in Beirut in April. High hopes for a break in the

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BURNING ISSUES

Taxes emerge as the most pressing issues for business in Sri Lanka today with more than six in 10 (compared to 42% in February) of those consulted in the

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Although extremely tricky and sometimes even baffling, changing how things are done can be a powerful performance enhancing tool. Part of the problem involves

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FINANCE SECTOR

Overall, performance of the NBFI sector slowed considerably in 2018 due to low credit growth, declining profitability and increasing non-performing loans (NPLs)

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SPACE TALK

Between satellites and drones, there is a wide business gap that’s being filled by balloons. Satellites served as the earliest eyes in the sky – a race that began

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DIGITAL MAPS

The Red Indians would have been called ‘Red Americans’ had Columbus used Google Maps to find India. Today, we’re never truly lost thanks to apps that scream at us

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SUSTAINABLE LIVING

Previously, corporates were largely focussed on either people or the planet in their sustainability game plans. One was often heavily weighed in favour of the other in strategies

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BRAND ADVOCACY

Coercing your customers to be your business advocates is the ultimate challenge for most or commercial entities. Much has been written about this but despite that

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Though many have studied it, they have not understood how to execute entrepreneurship practically through new ideas

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SRI LANKAN IDENTITY

If President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had hoped to develop a united country following the 16 November 2019 presidential election, what he inherited instead was a polarised

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