by Guy | Oct 20, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, Leadership, Oil, Pandemic, COVID, Profitability, Recession, Strategy, Success, Upturn
I don’t know if you’ve seen this great MindBullet entitled “China’s Perfect Storm” which was “written from 30 years in the future”. For those of you unfamiliar with it, MindBullets sends out a weekly ‘bullet’ written ‘from the future,’ and looking back to things...
by Guy | Oct 18, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, Leadership, Strategy, Success
Change is inevitable throughout life, and yet many people get really uncomfortable with it. As well-known business author, speaker, trainer, Jeffrey Gitomer, says, the reaction to change is often a four-letter word, although it shouldn’t be. Where would we be without...
by Guy | Oct 13, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, Excellence, Growth, Leadership, Pandemic, COVID, Strategy, Success, Upturn
VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity. You’d think it was an acronym designed specifically for these very different times in which we currently live. In fact, though, it was coined in the late 80s by the US Army War College to describe the rapidly...
by Guy | Sep 15, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, Growth, Leadership, Pandemic, COVID, Profitability, Strategy, Upturn
No less than 61% of South African SMMEs surveyed by Mastercard* in Q2 this year are actively planning for growth. This despite a massive 84% saying their revenue has been negatively affected by the pandemic, with the survey showing that 79% are looking at earnings...
by Guy | Aug 26, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Pandemic, COVID, Recession, Strategy, Upturn
I’ve been writing recently about the need to strategise and plan for a post-pandemic successful future in your business – something your board should be actively pursuing. Stifel, the US-based investment banking and services company, recently undertook some research...
by Guy | Aug 24, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, Investing, Strategy, Valuation
I first came across this quote on the importance of risk when listening to one of Rob Moore’s great “Disruptive Entrepreneur” podcasts, although I’ve subsequently seen it attributed to both the US-based business coach and author, John Spence, and to Facebook’s Mark...
