Are you fit enough for your board’s marathon, asks Julanie Basson Ask any runner standing at the start of a 42 km marathon and they will tell you the fitter and better prepared you are, the easier the gruelling race will be. Many runners, including me, have attempted to run a marathon very well knowing…
It is said that hard work and discipline lead to self-mastery. In this article, I share those habits that have shaped me into the speaker I am today. Habit 1: Never turn down stage time! Regardless, if you are presenting to two or 200 people, every audience is there to shape and groom you. If…
Oh, how a picture (which is worth more than a thousand words) can change depending on the type of frame you put it in. The same applies to the decisions we make. Framing is how we make sense of the world. By framing situations we are able to make sense of the world, without which,…
Golden handshakes seem to be becoming increasingly popular at the moment. The Oxford Dictionary defines a golden handshake as ‘a payment given to someone who has been made redundant or retires early’. The term ‘golden handshake’ is not defined in the Income Tax Act. A ‘severance benefit’ is defined in section 1 of the Act.…
In business, there’s a story that lives on about a mistake once made by Sheryl Sandberg, former Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google – not because of the error itself, but because of co-founder Larry Page’s response. When Sandberg realised she’d made a bad decision that would cost the company millions…
Congratulations to all our Top 35-under-35 candidates – you are all winners and leaders. After hundreds of entries, months of anticipation, a gruelling judging process and a difficult task to select only three category winners and one overall winner, we can finally announce who they are and why they were chosen. Hundreds of high-quality entries…
For every buyer there is a seller. Mathematically, this implies that the full universe of asset managers can only achieve the average return of the market. Add in fees, and actively managed investment funds should theoretically consistently underperform passive investments. However, the counter-argument is that there are some really good managers out there who generate…
Lisdoonvarna, a little village in Ireland, has been celebrating the Matchmaking Festival since the mid-18th century. It started with a surgeon discovering the beneficial effects of its water and from there the popularity of the mineral springs would, with the harvest safely in, bring hundreds of bachelor farmers to town in search of a wife.…
The Bank Supervision Department of the South African Reserve Bank, headed up by the Registrar of Banks, is responsible for regulating and supervising all the registered banks and banking groups in South Africa. Neil Maree explains The Bank Supervision Department (BSD) of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) derives its authority, rights, and powers from…
Global 500 It was a topsy-turvey year. Collectively, the 500 biggest companies in the world ranked by revenue set a new record in 2014 by generating $31,2 trillion in sales, a gain of 0,5% over 2013. But total profit for the global 500 fell nearly 15% to $1,7 trillion. One major reason for the plunge…