Success starts with relationships: You'll need your coworkers' support - or at minimum their respect - to accomplish anything. Your colleagues all have their own information and allegiances that they can put to work for you - if, and only if, they're so inclined. Relationships are built on reciprocity; if you do someone a favour, 90 per cent of people return the favour.

The young future business leader: an endangered species?

This discussion was triggered by the following Facebook.com group forum question: "What do you think of the 80 per cent of the UWI graduates who leave Jamaica?,"I think after receiving an email from an executive on the island in response to my search for a post-graduate job so that I CAN move back home, I can understand why UWI graduates leave.

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