Picture a typical entrepreneur. What springs to mind? Probably a hybrid of Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and a millennial doing something mysterious with social media in a trendy co-working space. And what link all three of these are innovation and risk: they notice problems in the world and want to fix them, and they commit…
By 2025, 75% of the global workforce is expected to be made up of people born in 1980 or after. Proactive employers are taking the time to understand what motivates millennials to reach their potential and remain loyal to the workplace. Jemelyn Yadao finds out what the accounting profession can do to nurture younger employees…
Breeze your way through the trendy interiors of Cube Workspace’s new, dynamic office spaces with MD Wayne Windell as he tells us how came back to South Africa with incredible international experience and is now building a business with serious intentions of going global For a ‘now or never’ offshore experience, at 26 Wayne Windell…
Many of us review our priorities at the start of a new year. As I went through this process, my perspective was informed by Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. Three thousand years ago, and against all odds, a teenage shepherd boy armed with a pebble, sling…
There is a perception that selecting a large brand name software supplier is the safe choice; that there are fewer risks involved. I’m here to tell you that size does matter, but not in the way you might expect. Let’s look at a large software supplier. In most cases, large suppliers mean large costs. Not…
Before I delve into when your payday is, let us first discuss trying to spread your disposable income over a full month. If that statement on its own makes you nervous or confused, we have got bigger problems than I had anticipated. What I have witnessed is that payday comes and everyone is in the…
I think I could almost write a book on what I and my team have seen in the past four years of performing B-BBEE verification engagements for around 350 companies. One word that keeps coming back to my mind is INTENT. No matter how things are legally structured, management’s true intentions normally become clear over…
What differentiates you usurps your qualification According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report, less than five years from now 5 million jobs will have been lost to automation. Technological advances in robotics and machine learning, for example, will also create new jobs and change the skills that employers need from human workers.…
One of the most sought-after skills as a speaker is knowing how to be engaging on stage and being able to hold the audience’s attention from start to finish. It should not matter if you are the first speaker on the agenda or the last speaker on a Friday afternoon; if you implement some basics…
CAPITAL GAINS TAX IMPLICATIONS Amendments have been introduced to the Income Tax Act to clarify the capital gains tax implications arising in employee share incentive trusts. The non-disposal rule contained in paragraph 11(2)(j) of the Eighth Schedule that dealt with equity instruments contemplated in section 8C that had not yet vested is deleted from 1…