Best Practices to Attract and Retain Top Talent in SMEs -Authored by Anjali Samuel, Managing Partner – Mindfield Resources SMEs account for the majority of businesses worldwide and are important contributors to job creation and global economic development. They represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment…...

Gender Diversity Within the Construction Sector -Authored by Anjali Samuel, Managing Partner – Mindfield Resources In the last 10+ years, there has been a significant social change and societal development in the Middle East. The changing mindset and growing acceptance of women's rights have undoubtedly raised the percentage of women…...

In response to the current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak, many companies are requiring some or all of their employees to work from home. While working remotely does provide some advantages such as saving time and money by eliminating commuting, it can also increase stress levels. For many, this is an unexpected…...

The coronavirus outbreak has triggered an accelerated trial run for remote work at a previously unthinkable scale. What we learn in the next few months could help shape the future of work and drive innovation across a range of business functions and industries. However, while much of the focus has…...

Diversity! Diversity! Diversity!... Partnering a myriad of multinationals, large regional players across the Middle East and Africa region provides for very interesting insights and questions that should be asked and answered. …Do we realise the impact of NOT seeding diversity of thought and perspective in our building blocks? …Do we…...

Nigeria as experienced by us… After many years of having put off travel to Africa, due to work exigencies true or assumed … we finally nailed down a date to travel to Lagos in February of 2018. It had been nearly ten years since my first placement with PepsiCo in…...

As the year draws towards a close I was thinking about the waves and the troughs of the diverse markets that we oversee. The dizzying pace of change, numerous factors coming at one with lightening speed ...and it came to me that through all this one thing that stood out…...