?The level of debate on good governance (yahapalanaya) has helped the many yahapalana activists to move the topic to the centre stage quickly and decisively in the last eight months. The 19th Amendment was a huge victory for good governance. 

How can the power of positive thinking change your approach to problem-solving? First, start by finding the right problems to solve. Second, try to see every problem as an opportunity. 

Another election, another government beckons us. As is always the case with us Lankans, ...

Controlling is an important and powerful word in the business world. We, as human beings, want to control almost everything around us. Similarly, in business, people want employees, customers and even competitors to be under their control.

?Although Servant Leadership may not be familiar to business organizations, it is a belief system that is already embraced by some of the most successful organizations in the world. 

?Free trade agreements (FTAs) are expected to reduce trade barriers and facilitate the expansion of trade between the partner countries. Sri Lanka and India entered into an FTA in 1998 and it came into operation in 2000.

?Most countries that adopt a framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth as the instrument for sustainable growth, acknowledge the role of skills development in that framework...

?With reference to the article by Lalin De Silva titled, ‘Tea crisis: A response to Planters’ Association’, which appeared in Mirror Business of 6th July, the Planters’ Association (PA) of Ceylon wishes to provide an accurate

?It is interesting to analyze the tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka over the past few years, which seems to give an indication that the informal hotel sector could be growing faster than the formal sector. 

No, this is not Argentina that has gone to town, but good old Sri Lanka, my beloved homeland.

It may seem that after several recent electoral defeats of prominent national dynasts, ...

On 20th April, we started reviewing the contents of a good Business Plan.

The Cognitive Resource Theory of Leadership was developed by Fred Fiedler and Joe Garcia in 1987.

A friend of mine and I were talking the other day and the subject moved...

Reading views expressed by certain eminent personnel in the tea industry, it is quite apparent that the woes of the country’s tea industry is likely to be worsened...

Free education should be protected and developed further to cater to the talented students in the country. It is important to further develop free education in the country to be more systematic and produce employable graduates to take up the cha

All eyes are on Greece, as the parties involved continue to strive for a lasting deal, ...

The overcrowded mobile phone industry in Sri Lanka needs to look at new...

Not only human beings but also all other beings living in this planet need communication.

?Often, we use the terms strategy and tactics interchangeably. Rather than debate Greek military etymology, Sun Tzu philosophy or the latest publications from the Harvard Business Press, here’s a simple way to look at strategy and tactics by th

We are all living the modern dream – we pay for conveniences, we eat out,...

We welcome the response by the Pathfinder Foundation on...

?In the past, a few companies engaged a credit rating agency as they dealt with what they knew. Banks would lend to companies who they were familiar with or to local households, whose behaviours they could easily understand and predict, despite not k

Transformational leadership must give people a long-term vision that imbues their lives with meaning;..

Entrepreneurship is very much about ideas and efforts of individual (or a collective) of private actors,..

?The Sri Lankan Central Bank’s issue of a 30-year bond on February 27, 2015 ran into immediate controversy. The main reason was that markets were expecting the bank to take up only around Rs.1 billion, but the bank accepted bids upwards of Rs.1

?Business organisations struggle to win market competition by setting strategies, making innovations, especially introducing customer-centric goods and services.

?If we take a step back and look at the evolution of the marketing landscape over recent years, it’s clear that digital tactics have quickly become fundamental pillars of the contemporary marketing mix. But, why has this become the norm?

?How many people? This is a critical question as adhoc recruitment could result in an excess work force and higher payroll expense. 

?With the growth of the Sri Lankan economy, companies across all industries are hiring a greater number of millennials as they continue to expand their operations.