THE CRA PERSPECTIVE ✦ CORPORATE LIFE • LEADERSHIP • MANAGEMENT THE ABC OF CORPORATE LIFE Appearance • Behaviour • Communication Three everyday principles that shape professional impressions, workplace relationships, leadership effectiveness and career growth. PRESENT YOURSELF WELL • ACT WITH INTEGRITY • COMMUNICATE WITH PURPOSE What Makes a Professional Stand Out? Why do some people create a positive impression when they enter a workplace? Why do certain managers earn the trust of their teams, while others struggle to gain cooperation despite holding positions of authority? Professional success depends on many factors, including competence, experience, judgement, integrity and opportunity. Yet three everyday elements strongly influence how people experience us at work: how we present ourselves, how we behave and how we communicate. These principles can be expressed through a simple framework: the ABC of Corporate Life. A — APPEARANCE How you present yourself p...
Investing is an effective way to put your money to work and potentially build wealth. Smart investing may allow your money to outpace inflation and increase in value. The greater growth potential of investing is primarily due to the power of compounding and the risk-return tradeoff. Investments To invest is to allocate money in the expectation of some benefit in the future. In finance , the benefit from an investment is called a return . The return may consist of a gain or a loss realized from the sale of a property or an investment, unrealized capital appreciation (or depreciation), or investment income such as dividends , interest , rental income etc., or a combination of capital gain and income. The return may also include currency gains or losses due to changes in the foreign currency exchange rates . For example, an investor may purchase a monetary asset now...