Make sure you are not trying too hard to please others

We were on a short break at the end of the year when my sister made an interesting observation. She said that sometimes we work harder than we need to, just to please people and make relationships work. This can actually backfire and work against the very objective we are trying to achieve. Although her comment was based on watching two...

Companies with strong fundamentals can handle recessions,
credit crunches and demand slowdowns much better than others. But what constitutes strong fundamentals? While factors like sales or profit growth are good indicators of earnings’ strength in a fast-growing economy, when the economic cycle changes, growth becomes a less relevant metric. Indeed, at such times, the steepest decline...