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 “universities and the industry” to pass our experience on to the graduate students of Marmara University. Within this context, I have been giving “entrepreneurship” lectures…
My notes from Scott Klososky’s speech at a conference I attended in Chicago (www.technologystory.com) are as follows: “A study shows that our tendency to believe commercials remain at 13% whereas our tendency to believe our friends is around 80%. Technology strips publishers, editors and the media elite of their power.…
Everybody complains about being behind with their work. But if technology helps us spend a shorter time on other tasks, are we not supposed to have more time to do most things? There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) When I was a…
The stress caused by not being able to organise one’s work or time may even affect health… I have noticed both in the workplace environment and in some associations of which I am a member that people have serious problems managing their time. I have met many people who do…
We have left behind another Women’s Day. Happy Women’s Day to all of us. This is a very popular topic which receives wide coverage by the press. Everybody says something; flowers, smiles and celebrations everywhere. Tomorrow is the 9th of March. See you next year then. This is the new…
When I started the first grade of school, my grandfather wanted to talk to me. He said: “Son, you are now starting school. You have got to learn what it is to save and spend your own money. I will give you some pocket money every week.” I did not…
When I graduated from Istanbul University in 1995, perhaps the most popular profession in the School of Administration was independent auditing. All the well-known auditing firms would visit our school to make presentations on career days and the brochures they left for us would do the rounds of the school.…
In the early days when we first heard about the concept, everybody called it “sustainability”. It was a term everybody was familiar with but did not use very often. Then it suddenly became very popular. “Sustainability” became the most fashionable theme of all for conferences and the most important openings.…
Harmony, in other words. One dictionary definition of “adaptation” is “a trait which allows the organisms that have this trait and have succeeded through natural selection to be more evolutionarily adaptive.(1)A magic word for a living thing to sustain its existence. The explanation continues as follows: “Adaptation is the evolutionary…
Today is a day of sorrow for me. When they called me from Buğday(1) with the news, I felt something inside me breaking. I did not believe. I did not want to believe. I loved and respected Victor. No, I do not want to use the past tense, it does…