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Eduard Hoeks

“Building personal relationships is still an important aspect of business in CR.”

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BALANCE: The Business-Life Connection Part III

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Woman throwing flower petals in the air

There are two parallel planes of human evolution, Darwinian or Physical Evolution and Emotional or Consciousness evolution.The rate of change in materialism and technology over the last 75 years has been exponential and although Physical Evolution has managed to progress, the rate of Emotional Evolution is much slower, and therefore is significantly lagging, leading to a substantial imbalance between these two forms of human progression.

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Discovering India Part I.

Discovering-India-CollaborationA lifetime is not enough to get to know India. But if we have ten days, we can peek under its guise of exceptionality, diversity, uniqueness and strangeness and get a chance to see a sliver of its extensive cultural heritage.

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Asia Rising: Making the Link Between Education and Competitive Advantage

asia_03There are two basic reasons for expecting to find links between quality of education and competitive advantage. A general reason is that living standards have risen so much over the past centuries due to education. The rise of the middle class across the Western world after, but even during, the Industrial Revolution has proven that education is needed for people to contribute to scientific advance as well as to benefit from it.

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Every Single Moment of Every Day

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Man holding crystal ball in landscape

Happy New Year & in this New Year I am going to share with you a part of my spiritual journey – if it can be called a journey at all – as it is not about destination & movement but about stillness & silence.

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May I Suggest a Strategy For The New Year?

 

Fireworks explode over Elizabeth Tower housing the Big Ben clock to celebrate the New Year in London, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Fireworks explode over Elizabeth Tower housing the Big Ben clock to celebrate the New Year in London, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

New Year resolutions and business plans are always full of optimism and desire to achieve goals and increase overall business performance. Everything feels possible.As you reenter work from the holidays, may I suggest you consider a new strategy at the way you have been analyzing and managing gender integration at work?

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The Wisdom of Slowing Down

slow-down1The word “transformation” has been often used to describe the deep process that companies and individuals underwent since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007. Without any doubt we can expect that the year that is about to start will continue to throw new challenges to those active in the fields of leadership, communication and professional reputation management.

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Get the New Year Off To a Good Start

new-yearAs the New Year is getting into full swing, many people are still contemplating what is in store for all of us over the next 12 months. Typically, some of us start the year with big New Year’s resolutions. In six months (or earlier) more than half of us will have given up on our aspirations and fallen back on old habits. It’s clear that enthusiasm and willpower are limited resources, and hope doesn’t get us very far; in addition, we are simply not perfect and easily succumb to temptation, vice or the path of least resistance. That’s reality.

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Czechia – A Future Waterways Crossing of Europe?

494176290_640In the recent months, the return of the idea of a water corridor connecting the Danube, Odra and Elbe rivers through the area of the Czech Republic has awaken a broad interest in the Czech public. The project has been recently strongly fostered by President Miloš Zeman as well as by the incumbent government in resignation, and became also one of hot transport themes of the latest parliamentary election campaign. The idea of the water corridor has appeared with positive or negative connotations and governmental efforts during more than a century, but without any definite decisions and actions taken by governments and public institutions.

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Corporal Citizenship – An Essential Business Ingredient

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As a former director of Greenpeace International, I sometimes have a tendency to be cynical about the values and genuine intentions of big business.Happily, there is a growing number of companies in the Czech Republic that are practicing what is often known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Sustainability.

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The State and Information Technologies

Info_TechState investments into information technologies are usually considered overpriced and often accompanied by corruption scandals. But that’s only a part of the truth. There are more problems. Their requests usually lack quality specifications based on accurately described and more effective processes for data flow. The pilot phase is underestimated for testing the functionality of the project. In cases of extensive critical applications, working in real-time, tests may even reach a cost equivalent to developing new programs.

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