For me, success is bigger. It’s not just about me. I would consider myself successful if I have uplifted everyone around me and they have uplifted everyone around them. It’s about how many people you impact, and I try my best. If you want to change the world, start with one person. You have to…
AGSA’s work strengthens the country’s democracy, builds public confidence, and ultimately benefits the receiver of services, namely the people of South Africa. For this, they have a resilient organisation with a strong foundation of integrity, professionalism and technical excellence focusing on people and good internal governance The Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) is the country’s supreme…
For Bianca Goodson, doing the right thing is to stand firm in your values even in the face of adversity, and even if it scares you. Making South Africa a better country for generations to come trumps any kind of financial incentives that you might get from doing the opposite Former Trillian Management Consulting chief…
What happens when the bot does not report for duty? In the mid-1980s, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Terminator provided an extreme exploration of what happens when humans lose control of the intelligent machines that they themselves have developed. In a less extreme example, during the infancy of Google’s geolocation technology, Google Maps, it frequently navigated travellers…
Emotional regulation has been defined as ‘the process by which individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express their feelings’ Let’s pick an emotion: fear. In some situations, fear is very useful. If you can’t swim well and you go to the beach on holiday but the…
Kevin Phillips considers the impact of remote working on South Africa’s now fully implemented Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act. Has legal lag made it unworkable in the modern distributed workplace? The ‘legal lag’ phenomenon is not new. Laws have long struggled to keep up with rapidly advancing technology, but this gap is widening in…
The stakes are high for small South African businesses following the challenges in the last 18 months, which now include the potential risk of a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections later this year. This is a time you want to avoid making unforced financial errors in order to rebuild cash reserves and restore levels of…
Ethical leadership in the current South African landscapeThe business ideals of profit and shareholder wealth maximisation cannot be sustainable if ethics are not engrained in the DNA of the business operations. Kwena Maseko sees the dominance of ethics in current leadership discourses as an appreciation of ethics as the cornerstone of organisational leadership. But what…
Dust is slowly beginning to settle in the ‘Wild Wild West’ of data management and governance, particularly for the accountancy profession, even though there is still a long way to go. A recent report released by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) shines some light on the data management value chain and opportunities for the…
Alternative legislation for the winding-up of insolvent companies is urgently required if business rescue is to survive in the long term. When the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (the Companies Act) was brought into operation in 2011, a number of transitional arrangements were enacted, including the retention of chapter 14 of the repealed Companies Act…