Starting a business can be intimidating and overwhelming. However, when done right, it can be an extremely rewarding and exhilarating experience. Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of startup businesses make the same mistakes when they’re just starting — and we want to help you avoid making these same mistakes. This article will cover […]
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Goal-setting is an essential part of leadership, and goal execution is at the heart of entrepreneurship. You must develop a mindset that allows you to set attainable business goals that will stretch you and help you live a better quality of life. If you’re like us, you’ve just reached your financial year-end. That means we’ve
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Background story *Shawn’s IT had been in business for over 14 years. He had experienced significant highs with contracts to provide IT services to High Schools in the neighbourhood he grew up in, in Mpumalanga. He swiftly began delivering the services, but soon after execution, things between him and his co-directors started taking a turn
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Its future focused scenario planning workshops. This is for businesses primarily who seek to move towards employing a particular type of technology (disruptive). They tend to be faced with many challenging critical paths, and what we do is help them find the path of less resistance and high impact for them. Related Links Scenario
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In 1999, Gogo Khumalo had an idea of selling fresh vetkoek (amagwinya) in the taxi rank. Gogo Khumalo would be on the street cooking her vetkoek with a little paraffin stove from 4:00 a.m. until 9:00 am and then again from 16:00 pm until 19:00 pm, taking advantage of the commuters rushing to and from
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Future readiness and scenario planning was an activity reserved for large corporations who had cast long forecasts on their business strategy. Some of the most successful businesses in the East have, for years, planned 50 years into the future and invested a significant amount of time reading future trends and interpreting them to see what
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Every one of us seeks to be in a position where we feel enriched in any relationship we invest our efforts in, such as those with colleagues, business partners, suppliers and customers. We want to feel that we play a meaningful part in them and then to be able to offer ourselves with an open
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The topic today speaks to my personal path of building a business that becomes great such as the likes of Apple and Microsoft. My two cents on this matter is as follows. Determine what your purpose is, that is the spirit which you will pour into your business. To do this well, one needs to
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The word governance refers to the processes of ruling or controlling resources in particular. The pillars of corporate governance are ethics and risk and main elements of governance are fairness, accountability, responsibility and transparency. The increased importance of governance in business today is from the collapse corporations such as Lehman Brothers, Enron and WorldCom as
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This brings new meaning to the derogatory phrase “Like a girl”. #likeagirl. #brandswithconcience.
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