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Take me with you - by Brad Newsham. Read it! (Buy it at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net) This book review might seem a bit out of "left field" ... because it's got nothing to do with business, corporate policy or anything remotely related ... it's a travel book. Ah, but...
LogoWorks designs corporate logos. Wow. So do hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide. But the reason LogoWorks rises above the crowd is that they have designed an internet business model that harnesses the power of ecommerce, attracts bright young things to work...
Walk into any (reputable) book store and you're bound to find a stack of Jim Collins' sequel to Built to Last entitled Good to Great (buy it at Kalahari.net or Amazon.com). One need only to look at the stock levels of any particular business book to see the demand...
"Dave Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati - a specialist search engine for blogs - said 80,000 new weblogs are being created every day. Technorati tracked more than 14.2 million blogs this month, compared to 7.8 million in March." For the full article (click here)
I got an email from my bank saying "sorry" for any inconveniences caused yesterday as a result of their Internet Banking service being unavailable. It got me thinking about how much I rely on the internet these days ... I hardly ever go into my bank branch anymore....
This week I received two emails – I get many in a day, but these two stand out because they reflect the phenomenal power of the internet and the connective economy; one in a positive way, and the other in a very dangerous way. The first one was the ICE message –...
A blog entry like this takes courage. So I'm hoping that your recognition of that fact will go a long way to lessen the humiliation you are going to be tempted to put me through. While this entry may appear to be dealing directly with my vanity, it's a more serious...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm
According to an article in today's Daily News, 'Copycats Beware!' (guess what the article is addressing?) there's a new angle of attack on those poor people who own intellectual property, who are currently losing zillions and zillions of cash. I wonder how many...
Ever thought what it would be like to start your own business? Whist one would think the government would encourage the establishment of SME’s, which would create employment, which would create stability and so and so on…… Instead it would appear that the South...
Blog + Wiki = a new way to collaborate. 21 year old Lucas Carlson has integrated these two existing technologies in an exciting new way... For years, programmers have used versioning tools to collaborate on writing software. In that way, hundreds of programmers can...
Tom Peters has just celebrated his sites first birthday. He sums up the power of blogging and the blogging community very well. Check it out on http://www.tompeters.com/.
Have you ever heard of Kim Hyun Wook? I didn't think so. He is a South Korean professional racing car driver. As with most pro sportspeople, he has his own fan club, merchandise and a host of sponsors. He earns really good money. To his fans, he is known as (Korean...
Recently the media has been shouting about the aggressive purchases Chinese companies are making abroad, e.g. Lenovo’s purchase of IBM’s PC division, Haier’s bid for Maytag, and the CNOOC’s (China National Offshore Oil Company) push to grab Unocal....
I'm a Windows user. But not necessarily by choice. More like 'is there really another option? Windows user'. Sure, Apple is one alternative, and one I've considered many times, and come very close to moving to. But what of Linux? Is it really a viable alternative? I...
A recent magazine, exploring the subject of women and leadership, carried an article titled, 'Women can beat men at their own game'. My question is, "why would they want to do that?" Trying to 'beat men at their own game' is not only a foolhardy tactic but one that...
A disappointing deception is being perpetrated in the so-called public speaking arena. For years it’s been a ‘norm’ for companies to have a ‘motivational’ speaker at annual marketing, sales and other conferences. Being a veteran public speaker and founding...
Benoni. My hometown. Not much to say about Benoni. But despite the stigma attached to it, this enigmatic little city keeps producing exceptional people. Charlize Theron, um... Ok, so Charlize Theron is the only exceptional human being to have originated from...
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