Duane Gomes - A little bit of perception helps in dealing with the many shades of grey in life.

A Snapshot: In this article we explore the idea that our earliest tools and technologies available to human kind since the start of time where the ones we call the human body and all its senses and faculties. The most important of all of them was sight and our eyes and the result of these working lead to observation becoming the only tool to acquire an understanding of the world around us and creating knowledge from that understanding allowing for life to find ways to survive and pro create over the eons it has, building new tools and techniques as it went along but never forgetting that is all started out with observation. The Visual Sense: Albeit Sight, is a very prominent and rich sensory organ in the human repertoire of senses and is the most engaging one, creating impressions, stimulating emotions and engaging our basic instincts. Its one of the facets of life that we are born with and is one of the first things we do when we are given birth to, open our eyes and see the worl...

A Snapshot: In this article I will draw a parallel between Management Strategy and Photography and how I think the two are entwined in ways that will lend to each other. There are disciplines in photography that are very instrumental to success in photography and an absolute necessity without which we would be the same as anyone with a camera. The same reason why management strategy fails so often and never delivers on the differentiation we seek, because it can benefit from the same discipline that photography can bring to the table to imbibe into the art of strategy in management. The Problem Statement: Why do we often get strategy wrong? Strategy is that part of management which is meant to take into account the current realities, the possible future direction of the industry, the pulse of the customers, the market forces, the geopolitical climate and the economic environment. The purpose of the strategy is to leverage our understanding of the factors described above to formula...