Cost optimization and cost reduction are not the same thing, and the former should not be used as a fancy way of saying the latter. As defined by Gartner, “Cost optimization is a business-focused, continuous discipline to drive spending and cost reduction, while maximizing business value.” I’m going to focus on cost reduction in this article and will address cost optimization in a..

Expatriates, or “expats” for short, are people who live outside of their native country. My expat journey started in April of 2013, when I moved to Bahrain. Though I am half Egyptian and half British, I was born and raised in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and having lived and worked only in the United..

First, what is employee engagement?   “Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give of their best each day, committed to their organization’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organizational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.”[i]   “Employee engagement, simply..