Leading Through The Hard Times: Do You Have A Plan B?
There are days when one feels worn-out, fed up, desperate and aimless. Depression and lack of joy dominate such days – one feels upset and…
While selecting your executives
A framework for assessing “fit” when hiring managers. Dr. İzel Levi Coşkun Companies appear to follow similar processes when hiring senior-level managers. The first stage…
Enron to Volkswagen: business, ethics and sustainability
Arthur Andersen, who in 1913 founded the firm of Arthur Andersen, said during a lecture on ethics at Northwestern University at the time of the…
Hear me, executioners of Yassıada!
As a child, two mystical islands kept visiting my dreams: the islands of Yassıada and Sivriada. To me they were islands in the back of…
Being Different in Business Life
After the age of 20, one starts to feel the weight of the burden of business and life. Young people begin to get anxious. What…
On Creativity
In an exam I had to sit as a Ph.D. student, one of our professors asked which major phenomena would be shaping business life in…
Career Choices
“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your…
Corporate Social Responsibility
Today, the social responsibility of enterprises is increasingly growing as we have issues such as financial crisis, global warning, corruption, unemployment and human rights. Today,…
Internal Control And Institutionalization
One of the expressions we hear rather often in business world is “think global”. This expression may be considered a reference to benefiting from global…
Entrepreneurship in Turkey
One of the first projects we carried out as the Entrepreneurship Committee of Young Businessmen Association of Turkey was on the establishment of cooperation between…