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A key enabler of innovation is commitment to diversity

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,” once said late Steve Jobs, founder of Apple. During periods of...

Team Diversity Expert Advice

The Mini Entrepreneur tries to find the perfect team member

Finding the right hire can sometimes seem impossible. When looking for a team member, you’re bound to hear from and interview candidates f...

Team building Mini Entrepreneur Team

5 reasons why professionals quit their jobs

The rise of regional jobsites means that sourcing talent has become faster, easier and more cost effective for employers than ever. It...

Team Programme

What to do when your best employee quits

In an ideal world, your top employees would stay on board for years and years, and you would never have to worry about finding...

Team management Team Programme

Hiring for your Startup, Lean Startup Event - Dubai, UAE

One of the many challenges a startup faces is hiring the right human resources, especially those who can join locally. But today the...

Team Programme

10 characteristics of a great startup leader

Today’s startup workplaces demand great leaders who inspire enthusiasm, loyalty and trust in their employees. Particularly in a young b...

Leadership Team management Team

10 ways to improve your performance at work

Successful professionals create value by finding a need and meeting it. They are unique in being able to create new products, services,...

Tips Team

Are Employees in the Arab World Satisfied with their Jobs? [Infographic]

A wide majority (75%) of employees in the Arab world would leave their current job for a competitor if offered a higher salary, according...

Team management Team Programme

Should Companies in the Arab World Offer the Ability to Work from Home?

Who would have guessed that in 2013 we would still be discussing the pros and cons of working from home? Just a few weeks ago, it seemed...

Team Coworking Spaces

12 Stats Every Employer in the Middle East Should Know

Bayt.com recently polled professionals from across the Middle East and North Africa and compiled the below list of takeaways from their...

Team management Tips Team

5 Uncommon Tips for Managing Your Virtual Team

Typical “how-to” advice on managing virtual teams goes something like this: Have clear objectives. Use video. Communicate efficiently. Use...

Team management Virtual teams Team

10 Questions to Assess if Your Career is on the Right Track

Every now and then it’s a good idea to sit back and take stock of your career to analyze if you are where you want and need to be. If y...

Tips Advice Team

15 Tweetable Tips from Mix n' Mentor Cairo

At Mix n' Mentor Cairo, entrepreneurs and mentors discussed 3 major issues faced by Egyptian entrepreneurs. We've compiled a few of the key...

Mix n Mentor Advice Mentorship

8 Startup Couples Making Entrepreneurship Romantic

In honor of Valentine’s Day, we have put together a list of 8 dynamic startups in the Arab world founded and run by married couples. It’s a ...

Team Top Lists

Founder of GoNabit Joins MarkaVIP as COO

After the close of daily deals site LivingSocial, Sohrab Jahanbani is now joining MarkaVIP. After first founding daily deals site GoNabit,...

Daily Deals E-commerce Team

How the Middle East Can Reclaim its Creative Work Culture

“8-5 shifts”, “lunch breaks”, “weekends”, and “vacations” are part of the not-so-wonderful jargon we have inherited from the Industrial Revo...

Advice Ecosystem Education

Look for Co-Entrepreneurs that Will Complement Your Skillset [Pic of the Week]

"Without talented employees I’ll never make it." I hear this sentiment expressed often by new entrepreneurs struggling to build their s...

Advice CoE Cards Pic of the Week

#truDubai: A Recruiting Unconference

On January 16, 2013, Shelter Dubai is hosting #truDubai: A Recruiting Unconference from 9am-5pm. Following the success of previous #tru ...

Advice Conferences Programme

8 Tips for Building a Wildly Successful Arabic Website

After Arabic women's portal Nawa3em grew to one million monthly unique visitors during its first year, its CEO Rodolph Jabr...

Arabic Content Digital Media Team

Entej Works to Connect Egypt's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

What do you do when you come up with a great project idea? Of course, you start looking for partners and team members, probably through...

Ecosystem Egypt Job Recruitment

Souq in Egypt: Not Relinquishing its Crown Anytime Soon

I visited the new challenger recently, so it was only fair I also visit the undisputed champion. The two companies I’m talking about a...

Daily Deals Demystifying E-Commerce Ecosystem

Start Up Weekend Alexandria: Still the Best Entrepreneurship Event in Egypt

The second Start Up Weekend Alexandria (SWA) was held on the 27th to 29th September 2012, and while it’s always nearly impossible to r...

Ecosystem Mentorship Startup Communities

Goodbye Mizado, Hello Jumia: Inside Rocket Internet's Newest Gamble in Egypt

Jumia, the new online mall, launched with little fanfare in Egypt just over two months ago, the progeny of the German behemoth...

Rocket Internet Egypt Ecosystem

Maintaining a Startup Atmosphere in a Growing Business: JC Butler of Dubizzle [Wamda TV]

JC Butler, Co-Founder of Dubizzle, discusses his company’s evolution from a startup to a medium-sized business. He explains that it takes r...

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