Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

  • Mitigating Business Risk Through Accurate Spatial Data

    Mitigating Business Risk Through Accurate Spatial Data

    Every major construction, engineering, or development project starts with a plan. But even with careful planning, many projects still run into costly delays, budget overruns, and unexpected problems. Often, these issues don’t come from bad execution, but from a shaky start: initial information that’s inaccurate or incomplete. Managing project risk…

  • Ethical Considerations in Workforce Globalisation

    Ethical Considerations in Workforce Globalisation

    As businesses expand across borders, a global workforce has become a practical reality for companies of all sizes, not just multinational corporations. This shift offers huge opportunities for growth, innovation, and diversity. However, it also brings complex ethical challenges that need careful thought. Building an international team isn’t just about…

  • How to Improve Payment Efficiency and Scale Your Business

    How to Improve Payment Efficiency and Scale Your Business

    For modern businesses, operational efficiency isn’t just nice to have; it’s essential for survival and growth. Leaders often focus on making production or marketing better, but the financial back office — especially how payments are handled — often gets overlooked. Clunky, manual payment processes can drain resources, slow down cash…

  • Vasco da Gama: Building the Portuguese Spice Monopoly

    Vasco da Gama: Building the Portuguese Spice Monopoly

    Discover how Vasco da Gama opened the sea route to India and built Portugal’s spice monopoly by force.

  • Christopher Columbus: Exploration as a Business Pitch

    Christopher Columbus: Exploration as a Business Pitch

    Discover how Christopher Columbus pitched, funded, and negotiated his voyages like a venture deal.

  • Stock Market Weekly Recap — August 17–21, 2026

    Stock Market Weekly Recap — August 17–21, 2026

    It was an unusually turbulent late-summer week on Wall Street. Stocks fell, oil climbed, Treasury yields remained near multi-year highs, and the U.S. national debt crossed $40 trillion for the first time. Together, those forces raised an increasingly important question for investors: Is the price of money becoming a threat…