THE FORMER CEO HAS RETURNED ONCE AGAIN! WILL THINGS AT DISNEY GET SORTED OUT? Under Robert Iger’s leadership, Disney’s market capitalization had increased from $48 billion to $257 billion. During his 15-year tenure as CEO, Iger expanded Disney’s list of intellectual property assets and its share in international markets. On February 25, 2020, Bob Chapek […]
Food Wars: The Importance of History in Contemporary Food Discussions Sabri Ülker Publications has made it their mission to translate significant foreign publications on topics such as food research, food debates, and science communication into Turkish, and making them accessible to students, young scientists, and enthusiasts. The book “Food Wars,” which has just hit the […]
THE DONKEY WHO HAS NEVER SEEN CHINA! In the old days, one of the Young Turks went to Paris, and when he returned, he narrated it sweetly. In short, when they say, “It is a donkey who has not seen Paris, and they ask around: Has your dear father been to Paris?” When he answers […]
NEW INVENTIONS IN THE PACKAGING INDUSTRY Interpack is a very valuable fair held in Germany, where solutions and innovative concepts are presented in all industrial branches of the packaging industry. I have been going to this fair, which is held tri-annually since 1958, for the past forty years. It is very enjoyable for me, and […]
Are We Living the Ostrich Paradox? The earthquake that hit 10 of our cities on February 6 and what we experienced after it showed us once again that we all know that Turkey is on an earthquake belt; scientists have made the necessary warnings after the 1999 earthquake, they have drawn fault maps and they […]
Intuition, Data, or Experience? What do you say about discussing influential decision-making in the individual and corporate (company/public) fields mentioning the book (*) “Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life”. .? It seems like just the right time for it. Our author, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, is currently an economist, […]
BANGLADESH, A SUCCESS STORY!? With Covid-19, ongoing wars, ever-evolving technology and the climate crisis, a great change is occurring in almost every corner of the world. Of course, it is obvious that this is not a positive change in many places. But in a country one never expected, a more positive change that we would […]
The WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM once again… The WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM (WEF) was held on May 22-26 last year, and Mr. Ali Ülker and I attended. A short while after, based on my notes, I shared with you both an overall assessment of Davos and a summary of the panels I attended. (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-wonder-we-too-late-davos-however-world-agriculture-anti-trust/?trk=pulse-article_more-articles_related-content-card)%20) . This year […]
A Self-Controlling Person is Superior to an Intelligent Person! Our topic today is emotional intelligence. Let’s first clear up some confusion. Physiological states that awaken in response to stimuli are defined as emotions, and the mental associations we give to these physiological states are defined as feelings. We can only empathize by understanding the feelings […]
AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY OF 42 YEARS: POSITIONING The positioning strategy is based on a book of the same title by Al Ries and Jack Trout, written in the 1980s. Since the year it was published, this book has created a paradigm shift in communication strategies and influenced the communication and advertising strategies of companies’ brands. […]
