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 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 | Oct 6, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Leadership, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Recession, Success, Work Life Balance, Working From Home
Olivia was a web designer who worked with small entrepreneurial businesses. She loved helping entrepreneurs create websites that were as beautiful as they were functional. After a few years in business, Olivia found herself feeling out of sorts. She’d go to her...
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 19, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Economy, Growth, HR & Personnel, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Profitability, Recession, Valuation, Work Life Balance, Working From Home
If you’ve been following the business media, you’ll have noticed “The Great Resignation” is getting a lot of coverage – and with good reason. Publications including Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur, amongst others, have all covered it in the past month, along with...
