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CommonWisdom
Based in London, CommonWisdom helps growing startups with their People & HR & Culture strategies and problems. For early-level startups, it provides strategic direction and mentoring to go from an idea to execution.
It is also the force behind commonwisdom.co with the motto of "increasing wisdom per capita!" This platform provides valuable content for growing startups, on career design, work culture and entrepreneurship.
To learn more about our professional services or about enquiries to have your content published, please message me directly through ozan@commonwisdom.co.uk
It takes courage to start something new. As humans, we try to avoid change as much as possible. The unknown and the risk stand as threatening factors for our well-being and success. How, then, a startup is to be initiated and kept alive in…
Company Culture: The Best 10 Examples
What makes employee candidates want to work in a company? How does a company attract candidates?What makes employees willing to go to work day after day? The answers to these questions lie within the company culture. Its importance is a hot…
The Signs of Good Relationships
When talking about relationships, many people think of cheating. Even if they don't, they talk about emotional relationships, cheating stories, love advice.
While "human psychology" is searched approximately 6000 times a month in Google,…
Three Tips to Get Well with a Different Generation in the Workplace
Approaching Generation Y (or the millenniums) with terminology belonging to another generation and making big generalizations brings more harm than advantage.
I think this topic in essence is about the nature of change.
I believe in…
Why is Money a Good Second Priority?
Social scientists have reached a decision in recent years. A yearly income that goes above 75 million dollars don't contribute much to people's happiness. This research was of course done for the United States, and it tells us a lot about…
The Single Most Important Factor for a Company’s Success: Quality of Decisions
In this complex world, it is not possible to set one single aim and move towards it in one straight line. Maybe this has never even been possible. Because there are so many decisions to make that distort the line. But it's especially…
Change in HR and People Management: Less Hierarchy, More Talent
Two of the passions humankind cannot resist must be immortality and the desire to see the future. After all, mythology and artworks are full of immortality potions and oracles. We're at such a point in history now that we can foresee some…
Your Success Depends on Your Visible Value
Let's look at the future and career worry we all go through every 2-3 years from above before we move onto our search for career success and the effect of our visible value in that.
It's a must to get a higher and more systematical…
Why Difficult vs. Big Decisions are Different Things
The Dimension of Making Decisions You've Never Thought About
How are Difficult & Big (or Easy & Small) Decisions Different?
Even the simplest acts can consume thought and decision energy. The shoes you will wear today. The…
Make Important Life Decisions in the Morning
City life is difficult. So are its decisions.
More correctly, the city asks for life. Every environment has its difficulty, whether you live in the rural area or not. But city life is difficult for another reason.
We make a lot of…