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Society & Culture

NEWS VALUES: Do News Values Apply to Feature Stories?

Do news values apply to feature stories? Mostly. It is important to understand that news and features are not different worlds but different approaches to the same world. The eight most commonly identified news values—impact, relevance, proximity, prominence, timeliness, conflict, currency and the unusual—are just that, values. News does not […]

Interiors

How to Style Your Home With Mirrors

Mirrors play a significant role in the home. They come in varied shapes and sizes and are used for both practical and aesthetic purposes. Aside from being a means to see one's reflection, they also serve as decorative and artistic pieces that can light up any room. When placed strategically, […]

Leadership

In Business, the Purpose of Knowledge Is Action

When considering how knowledge affects personal decision making and reasoning, we need to understand what knowledge is and how it relates to information. We distinguish between knowledge and information by recognizing that they are fundamentally different. Information consists of data organized to characterize a particular situation, condition, context, challenge, or opportunity. Knowledge consists of […]

Leadership

How Business People Make Decisions?

We need to understand that people prefer to think, make decisions, and act in ways that are natural and convenient for them. They like to feel that any decision can be made and implemented in an easy, manageable, and acceptable manner and that it will be the "best way" to […]

Business

Top Challenges of Successful Enterprises

The evidence is clear that to survive and succeed, enterprises must change their approaches to conduct successful business in the globalized economy. Whereas gradual change has always been required to adapt to new conditions, the pace is now accelerating and incremental change is no longer sufficient. There are many reasons […]

Management

The Basics of Business Management

The term management can be viewed from two different perspectives. It can be used to refer to the coordination of all activities necessary for a business to achieve its set objectives through maximum utilization of available resources. It can also be used to refer to the persons bestowed […]