Archive for the ‘Basil Springer’ Category

A Heart For Life!!!

Monday, September 12th, 2005

The Human Asset Is Our Most Important Asset And We Must Exploit It To Its Fullest!!!

A role for Barbados

Monday, September 5th, 2005

“Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger” – Psalms 8:2 Barbados, a mere speck in the ocean, is three times the size of Washington D.C. but with less than half its population. The first British settlers landed […]

Money is not enough

Monday, August 29th, 2005

“All the workers are judged. The one judged most sternly is, surprise, not the one who did something wild or profligate but the one who, out of fear, did nothing.God will hold us accountable for what we do with our talents, our abilities, our opportunities, our lives” – An interpretation of the ‘Parable of the […]

Dominican Republic in focus

Monday, August 15th, 2005

“A vital step towards achieving a closer relationship between Caricom and the Dominican Republic would be for its President to set out in detail his vision of how a closer relationship with Caricom might bring value to the English speaking part of the region as well as to his own country – Excerpt from the […]

The ‘superb’ lifestyle

Monday, August 1st, 2005

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30) In daily […]

Rewarding human capital

Monday, July 25th, 2005

“As we move rapidly from a manufacturing to a service-based economy, the importance of human capital as a key marketplace differentiator has become increasingly evident. Companies have come to realize they need to hire, develop, and retain superior talent if they are to differentiate themselves from others and achieve competitive preeminence in the marketplace” – […]

Attitude – An untapped source of capital

Monday, July 18th, 2005

“Some people have a negative attitude, and that’s their disability” -Marla Runyan, Olympic runner who is legally blind. Last week the Barbados Tourism Authority mounted the first-ever ‘Barbados Week Philadelphia 2005’. The City of Brotherly Love was immersed in Barbadian music, culture and cuisine. It was surrounded with pulsating rhythms played by musicians from the […]

Synergy and greater productivity

Monday, July 11th, 2005

“In general, synergy (from Greek sunergia, meaning “cooperation,” and also sunergos, meaning “working together”) is the combined working together of two or more parts of a system so that the combined effect is greater than the sum of the efforts of the parts. In business and technology, the term describes a hoped-for or real effect […]

The old and the new

Monday, July 4th, 2005

“January, like February, was introduced into the Roman calendar by a legendary king of Rome, Numa Pompilius (c.715-673 BC), who named it in honour of Janus, the god of doors and openings (Latin janus, a door). Janus is represented in Roman art as a man with two faces, one looking backwards and one forwards, implying […]

You must make it happen

Monday, June 27th, 2005

“When you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen” – Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson www.theripplesproject.org Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to […]