Takis Athanassiou

Takis Athanassiou is a Business Consultant, Author, and Trainer, active in the areas of leadership, business consulting, marketing, e-Learning, social media, and personal growth. He aims at the development of people, business and assets! You can check out his blog, listen to Leadership Execution podcast, and follow him on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram.

Life Strategies

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Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters
Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters

One of the most inspiring books, I have ever read, is a book by Phillip C. Mcgraw, Ph.D. entitled: Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters.

This book is focused on 10 life laws, providing a situation/life – strategy approach for resolving a given situation. The laws are presented in simple terms while the strategies described constitute small landmarks for rethinking given situations, most of the times we are not able to address in an effective way.

The main objective of Dr. Mcgraw, a behavior expert, is to make people review some well and long-established approaches and attitudes while he is providing possible ways for resolving situations we may find ourselves unable to resolve.

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12 Disruptive Technologies That Will Transform The Economy And The Society

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In May (May 2013), McKinsey Global Institute, published a very interesting report, named: “Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy” by James Manyika, Michael Chui, Jacques Bughin, Richard Dobbs, Peter Bisson, and Alex Marrs.

Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy
Image courtesy of McKinsey Global Institute [from Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy Report]

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Organize Chrome Bookmarks for Maximum Efficiency

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A web browser in modern computing is an indispensable piece of software, considering all the functionality have been performing in our day-to-day work. Think about it. We use our browser to find information, to check out our email, to connect and communicate with other people, to buy, to access cloud applications, to view, listen or check multimedia, to access training modules and a lot more.

Organize Chrome bookmarks

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A Raw Model For Leadership

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Today, we experience a shift in the traditional structures of life, business and work, alike to the situation and events described in the film Modern times by Charlie Chaplin (unemployment, the introduction of new technologies in production, job seeking, financial shortage, etc.) This shifting in the events and circumstances brings along and an analogous change in the way we used to define the things around us.
A raw model for leadership

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About DJ’s and Decks

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Disk Jockeys (or DJ’s for short) have changed the view and the perception of the modern music industry, by combining and merging old and new music trends and genres and developing new ones. In order, though, DJ’s to reach in today’s state, a lot of experimentation, having been taken place, already from the 30’s (!!!), both in the expression as well as in the technology used (decks, records, tapes, CD-ROM, etc).

People's Business Cloud

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Collaboration Tools For Small Business

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Collaboration Tools For Small Business

The new model of today’s new business requires a set of tools that help the interaction of people from different places. These are the collaboration tools. Collaboration tools can be any technology assisting people in working towards common goals and includes a variety of technologies, ranging from conference calls, synchronous, asynchronous, audio and video conference, IRC and instant messaging, whiteboards and smartboards, wikis, collaborate spaces, documents, and applications, Virtual Meetings, and Chat Rooms, etc.

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The 11 Hats Of An Online Learning Coordinator

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The 11 Hats Of An Online Learning Coordinator
This post relies heavily on the wonderful article: Roles and Competencies of the e-Tutor,  by Brigitte Denis, Philip Watland, Sébastien Pirotte and Nathalie Verday, presented in Networked Learning Conference 2004.

The role of a coordinator (or e-Tutor), during an e-Learning process, is central to the learning process. e-Learning is a process for training people from a distance. And because this model of learning differs from the traditional one, a large part of the success of the process lies in the coordinator.

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