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Building Networks for Finance Professionals“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you are, whoever you are, you need one!” - Jane Howard Business networking has emerged as one of the ‘must have’ soft skills necessary for finance professionals to succeed in the competitive marketplace of today. Given the unprecedented ‘equalization’ of global skills and competencies, and the competitiveness of the finance job in the marketplace, one aspect where finance professionals contribute uniquely is their distinctive professional network, the ‘informal chain of contacts usable for mutual assistance and support’. In today’s world, it is not just ‘what you know’, and ‘where you learnt it’, but also ‘who you know’ that counts increasingly in one’s professional progress. |
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Shaping a Prosperous FutureIn our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. - Franklin D. Roosevelt The Slow World “You can either be in the fast world, or in the slow world”, predicted Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Thomas Friedman. In his insightful book ‘The Lexus and the Olive Tree’, Friedman observed that the world is "increasingly experiencing three democratizations:
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Corporate Sustainability & LeadershipAs organizations become infused with value, they are no longer regarded as expendable tools; they develop a concern for self-maintenance. By making a distinctive set of values, the organization acquires a character structure, an identity. Maintaining the organization is no longer simply an instrumental matter of survival but becomes a struggle to preserve a set of unique values. A vital role of leadership is to define and defend these values.” Institutions & Organizations Companies or corporations are legal entities formed to carry out specific undertakings with set goals. Behind every legal entity is an organization and like living organisms, organizations grow, develop, function, produce, and evolve over time. |