Adding to the list of Chinese social networking service providers like Xiaonei and Tencent, kaixin001.com (开心网) has confirmed to have secured USD4-5million in venture capital today from Northern Light Venture Capital headed by Feng Deng, one of the top 10 Chinese venture capitalists in 2007. Launched in April this year, the SNS that is still [...]

All employees must ‘toot their own horn’ if they want a promotion or payrise, but women are particularly timid about doing so, according to an expert in sales psychology.
US-based behavioral scientist Shannon L. Goodson says the fear of self promotion is holding back competent and deserving workers from being recognized for their contributions and prohibiting them [...]

PC Advisor recently wrote about the “world’s cheapest laptop” and guess what?…It’s located on Alibaba.com through a vendor from Taiwan. Here’s the listing: http://carapelli.trustpass.alibaba.com/product/101509462/World_s_Cheapest_Laptop.html
The Impulse NPX-9000 laptop has a 7in screen and comes with the Linux OS. It has a 400MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, 1GB of flash storage and an optional wireless networking dongle. [...]

We are pleased to promote a new pair of business travel guides from our old friend Yintong Bester. Details, provided by the author, can be found below:

“China’s increasing impact and importance, attracting inward investment at the rate of more than US$1billion per week, has made it the world’s fastest growing and the fourth largest global [...]

In February I wrote about scapegoating at work after noticing that the issue was coming up more and more with my coaching clients. It struck me that scapegoating had become a widespread and growing problem which was posing significant career implications for the victim.
What I hadn’t realised was just how endemic the [...]

Before I became an executive coach I used to be fascinated by the insights of an acquaintance who acted as sounding board/father confessor to some of the top names in British industry. As director of a corporate intelligence firm, he became privy to the fears and concerns of CEOs and senior directors, usually men over [...]

This is the second installment of a two-party entry on personal branding. Read the first part, The Return of the Personal Brand.
If, as I argued last time, personal branding is now a prerequisite for career success, what does your brand need to offer? I was happy to read your responses. Now I’ll weigh in.
Your personal [...]

A decade ago, I remember laughing out loud at Tom Peters’ Brand You 50, one of the first of a stream of books on how to develop your personal brand. I filed it in the ‘crazy management fads’ box, something that might work in the U.S. but would never be taken seriously in the rest [...]

I’ve been a judge for the ERE awards for the past three years and have attended numerous recruiting conferences around the world. As part of this, I’ve seen great ideas come and go, and some not so great, somehow hang on. So I’m a bit cynical with most of the hype and the emergence of [...]