The Year of the Employee: Forbes’ predictions for 2014 talent, leadership and HR tech

What teachers really want to tell parents

As southern hemisphere schools start up a new academic year, and teachers and pupils head back to school, the single biggest complaint I hear repeatedly when speaking to teachers has to do with parents. Over the past decade or so, Generation Xers (born in the 1970s...
The Year of the Employee: Forbes’ predictions for 2014 talent, leadership and HR tech

Idealising the past: Being unsocial

A few weeks ago the following picture was doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook, under the heading: “modern technology makes us more unsocial”: There’s an excellent point to be made in this photo, and in the similar I found below. Older...
The Year of the Employee: Forbes’ predictions for 2014 talent, leadership and HR tech

A new skyline for Johannesburg

Late last year, a Chinese property company spent a significant amount of money to buy the remaining AECI property in Modderfontein, a massive industrial area east of Sandton and Johannesburg. It’s in the area between Marlboro (a Gautrain station) and the...