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Today is another anniversay. It is 29 years since Steve Biko died in police detention in South Africa. Steve Biko was a leader who focused on helping black people in South Africa to gain self esteem. He founded the Black Consciousness movement, and talked about Black...
Here's a great description of the "connection economy" from The Future Of Competition: co-creating a unique value with customers, by C K Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy (buy it at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com or Kalahari.net): A profound, but silent, transformation of our...
Amazing how our burdens change over time. A few years back, some of the questions you'd ask when moving around were: will there be a road, will petrol be avialable, will there be a telephone, with there be a fax machine, will there be cellphone reception and now today...
Have you noticed how busy everyone is? It's almost as if the phrase "things are hectic" is usurping the inimitable response of "fine" when asked, "So, how are you?" Shawn Callahan over at Anecdote has termed this the busy-ness meme. So, as a unit of cultural meaning,...
In the 31 Aug 06 edition of strategy+business, Michael Schrage wrote an excellent article about using the power of Web 2.0 type thinking to involve customers in innovation processes. Read it here. His basic point needs little elaboration: Involving customers in the...
In the 31 Aug 06 edition of strategy+business, Michael Schrage wrote an excellent article about using the power of Web 2.0 type thinking to involve customers in innovation processes. Read it here. His basic point needs little elaboration: Involving customers in the...
Lynda Smith, trained Retirement Coach and Wisdom Continuity expert, shares some insights into the options facing those who will reach retirement age in the next 10 years. Its fairly clear that this generation of retirees are not going to give up work completely and...
Aiden Choles looks at the business critical issue of retaining talent, highlighting some of the mistakes that companies make when trying to manage their talent. He argues that a certain amount of churn is inevitable, and possibly even healthy if managed properly. But...
Aloysias Maimane wonders how we can shift today's talented young employees from a Sprint mentality to a Marathon mentality. How can we get them to stay for the long haul, and stick it out? He suggest three simple solutions that provide some of the pieces of the...
Dr Graeme Codrington suggest that traditional segmentation models aimed at understanding the youth market fall short because they fail to see the impact of generational value shifts. In fact, he goes further to suggest that by combining lifestage theory,...
In an article, "Be prepared: Generation Y workers are a different breed" (available here), Jerry Osteryoung explains: Eventually, you will have to manage Generation Y staff. These are people who were born after 1978, who will in time become the backbone of our labor...
While watching the first episode of Survivor South Africa last night, Sam and I wondered how the series would differ from the US version and whether we'd see a distinctly South African flavour come out of the tried and tested Survivor script and screenplay. At first...
Everyone once in a while someone walks on this earth and does things that the staunchest East Rand boytjies (not sure what the global equivalent is?) would never do ... stick their head into a crocodiles mouth ... for fun ... as a career!? Steve Irwin, the legendary...
LyndaSmith - Will I Retire Like my Parents? Lynda Smith, trained Retirement Coach and Wisdom Continuity expert, shares some insights into the options facing those who will reach retirement age in the next 10 years. It's fairly clear that this generation of retirees...
Here's one example from David Siegel - writer, speaker, strategist in the US: The scene: a meeting of the Direct Marketing Association that took place last October. In a banquet room in Toronto, before an audience of roughly 2,500 people, Siegel is introduced as one...
I have travelled quite a bit since the terrorist plot to blow up planes was uncovered two weeks ago in England. In fact, I actually landed at Heathrow on the Thursday morning it all went down, and was kept waiting on Heathrow's runway for 2 hours before being allowed...
I was working through some archives recently, and rediscovered this gem by Thomas Friedman (now famous for "The World is Flat"), written during campaigning for the last US presidential elections: Sometimes it's useful to stand back and ask yourself: If I could vote...
Jim Collins – Good to great suggests that it is imperative for one to select the right people or get the right people on the bus as means of a developing a great company. In a South African economy where legislation like BEE is rife, it is important to understand...
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