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Chief White Eagle of the American Hopi nation is said on social media to have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic: ‘This moment (we) are living through can be considered a door or a hole. …
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https://youtu.be/km-3y1580Fc The business environment is intrinsically chaotic and constantly changing. And the economic fallout around Covid-19 is making it even more so. The sense of …
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Around the world the talk is about lockdown and Covid-19 restrictions. Small and informal enterprises, especially, must find new ways of doing business. But if we only think about …
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My wife and I have been reading Richard Carlson’s Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff. It sounds easy: identify the small stuff in your life and let go. But, no. The real challenge is the subtitle: ... And …
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Instantaneous response; that’s what we have come to expect today. If Google takes more than a second to return its search results, we want to throw our computer out the window. And heaven help the car …
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Imagine having to drive around with an ‘ABNORMAL’ sign stuck behind you. No doubt you can think of other drivers who ought to have such signs on their cars or taxis. I suspect that a lot of us walk …
I enjoyed ‘breakfast with Blade’ recently. The Minister of Education and Training, Dr Blade Nzimande, and the FP&M SETA teamed up to engage with stakeholders in the sector. Dr Nzimande expressed …
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I was invited to run a workshop on presentation skills at the Maritime School of Excellence (MSE) in Durban last week. The prospect was pleasing, but the location was a nightmare, and I had less than …
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela — an Icon, our hero. We will be eternally grateful for the choices Madiba made in his life. As with all of us, some of those choices would have been regretted, some would be …
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