Are You an Impact Player at Your Company? Liz Wiseman, known for her studies on leadership and collective intelligence and cited among the world’s top 50 leadership thinkers, wrote an interesting book. Particularly based on how impact players in sports change the entire team, she describes how impact players at work can influence the whole business. […]
THE HOME OF TIMELESS ART: THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (THE MET) Overview of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down for an enjoyable interview with Gila Benmayor at Yıldız Holding’s Çamlıca Campus (https://www.ekonomim.com/kose-yazisi/murat-ulker-koleksiyoner-degilim-sadece-ev-sahipligi-yapiyorum/745041). In our conversation, we touched upon a range of topics, including how art serves as […]
ANTI-CAPITALISTIC FALLACIES AND CONSPIRATORS This article deals with the book “In Defense of Capitalism: Debunking the Myths” (Management Books, March 2023), addressing unending claims against capitalism, which is “associated by the public with all that goes wrong globally,” examining the alternatives of capitalism, and providing insights about the popular perception of capitalism based on the […]
WHEN WILL THE THIRD WORLD WAR BREAK OUT? The renowned historian Niall Ferguson wrote a column on Bloomberg titled “If You Think World War III is Unimaginable, Read This” on February 11. He starts interestingly by saying, “Are we unable to imagine defeat?” Ferguson writes that Americans forgot the defeat in Afghanistan too quickly. He […]
GOYA IN ARABIA (SACRED/CULTURE/BUSINESS/FUN) YOU EXPECT ONE THING YET SEE ANOTHER We spent the last days of 2023 and the first ones of 2024 in Riyadh, Jeddah, Macca, and Madinah. This is how I prefer to start a new year. I proceed with my life unlike the rest of the world engaging in a compulsory […]
HALAL! I think everybody already knows that when founding Ülker, right at the start, Sabri Ülker, our founder, and my father, summarized his mentality as “I would never produce or trade any product that I wouldn’t eat or allow my kids to eat.” Since the first day, Ülkerhas paid strict attention to the quality, hygiene, […]
LET ME TELL YOU A JOKE…A man goes to the movies to see a movie recommended by a friend. Surprised to find that friend on the seat next to his, he asks: You were the one who recommended this movie to me. Haven’t you already seen it? The friend replies: Yes, I have. But I […]
CAN THERE BE ART WHERE THERE IS UGLINESS? The book, “Introduction to Concepts in Art” (“Sanat Kavramlarına Giriş”), offers a clear and neat account for those who are interested in art and wish to learn about it. It is derived from the “Aesthetics and Introduction to Art” lectures Prof. Dr. Ayla Ersoy gave at Marmara […]
IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN OUR HEALTH IN THE LIVES WE LEAD?The Myth of Normal – Trauma, Disease, and Healing in a Toxic Culture Last year, I wrote an article titled “The Body Keeps Score, But We Can Change It!” and summarized my views based on a global bestseller (https://muratulker.com/y/beden-kayit-tutar-olsun-kaydi-degistirmek-elimizde/.Now), the book Dr. Gabor MATÉ, […]
Is it possible to bring Money, Dignity, and Pay to your life while working??? On the last days of 2023, HBR Türkiye held a 2-day meeting called Business Summit 2023. I wasn’t able to watch it but some of my friends shared their notes with me, telling me they believed I’d find them quite interesting. […]
