I worked for a big company in Qatar for seven years.
After I retired, I went back on a consulting contract and had coffee with a Qatari friend.
I had been gone a couple of ye...
Wow, we have trained eyes and brains for scanning everyone that boards the aircraft.
I think we subconsciously check a series of things to ensure that we are going to have a...
I am a finance person so I should know better.Everyone here is giving very well thought answers about net present value, investing, etc.
My answer is different and it is dum...
Why re airline pilots so highly paid?
A chiropractor sees dozens of individuals daily. He services their needs, usually they're of pain. We trust him and his knowledge to he...
You've probably heard: Bots are the future. In fact, if you're wondering today whether or not your business should create a bot, you're asking the wrong question. Bot-power...
A pattern I see in economy is that people overreact to a stimulus - the response overshoots its cause. This is true when the market goes up, and when it goes down.
Political...
The November 2001 crash, shortly after takeoff from JFK, of American Airlines Flight 587 sent a tremor through the aviation community. It involved an extremely rare event: ...
As of right now, Qatar is going through a diplomatic crisis!
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Question 1: What happened last Monday?
Look at this photograph. Looks like a nice city eh? It is Kinshasa, capital of the POOREST country in the world, the "Democratic" Republic of the Congo. So when comparing c...
My former boss owned several private jets, but on this occasion, he chose to fly commercial (as he occasionally did) from the U.S. to Paris.
He booked an Air France flight a...
I started my business in 1991, at the age of 23, and recently sold that company that I ran for 27 years.
I was 23, not 21, but, I can share some of my learning experiences w...
The is no problem between Qatar and the GCC. Qatar is a member of te GCC and three other members seem to want Qatar to obey their orders. Qatar says it's independent and ma...
A Wall Street tycoon invites a college student interested in finance to visit her. The student has no real connections and comes from the same impoverished town as her, so ...
Now, I wouldn't call this a "trick" or "hack".
However, it's absolutely crucial to effective (and profitable) marketing.
It's only 3 words, but can dramatically increase the ...
A monthly salary of QR8,500 is enough to live on in Qatar, as long as you don't expect to park your gold-plated Land Cruiser at your luxury studio at the Pearl. I make a bi...
I am both optimistic and pessimistic.
China is striving to become the world's largest economy with initiatives like the One Belt One Road initiative and the China-Pakistan E...
It has been established that if a population of human beings discovers a completely new environment with an unlimited supply of food (e.g. an uninhabited island with lots o...
This is a question I can answer! I know both countries intimately and I have a lot of love for both. Having said that, it would be a lot easier to answer this question know...