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11 Principles Of Turnaround Leadership
How do you turn around your ailing organisation, or move out of the hole you find yourself in at this time? I will tell you how from a leadership perspective rather than a pure structural,...
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Building Resilience In A Fragile World
We live in a fragile world. Every one of us faces profound and escalating challenges – youth unemployment touches many families; income inequality and poverty are a source of shame for many of us in...
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4 Key Business Lessons From Brazil 2014
The month-long soccer fest is over. But was it all a complete waste of time? Not at all – there are four important lessons from this tournament that we can apply to our businesses and other parts of...
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Exchange Controls Make It Impossible To Pursue My Work
2The South African Supreme Court of Appeal yesterday found in my favour in a case about exchange controls. I will put the returned funds of R250m plus interest into a trust, to underwrite...
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4 Steps On The Road To Growth, Dominance Or Irrelevance
We see the same four steps, over and over: Struggle: At the beginning, no one knows what you make or why they need it. They are unaware and distrustful too. Sometimes the struggle never ends, other...
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The Great Ghost Office Robbery
South African Post Office workers, staging their fifth and longest strike in three years, may want to consider jobs that have become redundant over the past century. Modern refrigeration rendered the...
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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories From 2014
It’s been an amazing 12 months in the world of sustainable business. From climate change to inequality, the scope of humanity’s biggest environmental and social challenges came into much sharper focus...
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When It Pays To Think Like A Finance Manager
If you want approval for a new project — purchasing new equipment or computer systems, applying for a patent, building a new store — chances are you need your company’s finance department on board. To...
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Savings Culture Can Boost Your Business – Expert
Cape Town – The development of a savings culture is not only appropriate for individuals, but for businesses too, a financial expert said. With July being Savings Month, it was right that South...
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Business Competition Has Not Gotten Fiercer
It’s become part of the conventional wisdom. The internet and globalization have combined to render almost every company vulnerable to greater competition than ever. Barriers to entry are withering,...
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When Who You Know Trumps What You Know
For those of us who, by virtue of residing outside the continent, are deemed ambassadors for Africa whether we like it or not, one of the most common charges we are called upon to address is the issue...
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The Most Digital Companies Are Leaving All The Rest Behind
The United States takes pride in being on the cutting edge of all things digital, and rightly so: American innovations and innovators have led the way. Yet according torecent research from the...
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Recapturing Our Finest Hour
2015 was certainly something of a tumultuous year on many fronts, presenting a new year with a beleaguered economy; a beleaguered currency; a beleaguered President; a fiscus on a tightrope and crucial...
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Polish Your Skoroko: The Ride Will Be Tough
In the mid-80s, ‘Skororo’ hitmaker Condry Ziqubu released another catchy tune, which I was convinced, was about ‘Mello Yellow’, the popular soft drink launched in the same era. This week, a friend...
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Why Digital Companies Grow Without Adding Headcount
By now we’re all familiar with examples of small and lean digital companies popping up out of nowhere and outcompeting larger, established companies. Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and...
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2016 Budget Underscores Economic Challenges Facing SA
The 2016 Budget Speech delivered in Parliament last week gave a realistic and sober outline of the economic challenges facing SA. Finance Minister Gordhan delivered a serious message about what was...
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Continuous Reconfiguration (Not Stability) Is The New Norm
It amazes me that an awful lot of management thinking still presumes that stability is the norm, and change is the weird thing. Indeed, I just now did a search on the term “change management” and it...
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The Limits Of The Lean Startup Method
Advocates of the lean startup method for creating a business advise entrepreneurs, as well as corporate intrapreneurs, to document, test, and refine their assumptions about a new venture’s business...
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Mistakes To Avoid When Scaling Up A Business
Many entrepreneurs that decide to scale up their operations without getting the right support run the risk of making costly mistakes that could threaten the survival of their businesses. Heather...
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Where Financial Reporting Still Falls Short
In a perfect world, investors, board members, and executives would have full confidence in companies’ financial statements. They could rely on the numbers to make intelligent estimates of the...
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