With South Africa’s unemployment rate at more than 27%, we need to stimulate entrepreneurship as a sorely-needed creator of wealth and economic opportunities. Hear from the below entrepreneurs by reading the full article.
To avoid the risks and negative consequences of ethical gaps, there needs to be an alignment between what is said and done within the organisation. Saying and doing need to be focused on what’s right for the business, its people and its stakeholders.
Ethical transformation is critical. The first step is acknowledging ethics and values as important and making the decision to prioritise it above the bottom line. This has to come from the top. Written by Monique Verduyn With the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture unearthing staggering and significant news regarding corrupt activities involving the…
Blockchain is all the rage. We are constantly bombarded by reports of how it will change the world. While it may alter many aspects of our lives, our suspicion is that they will be in areas that we experience only indirectly. That is, blockchain technology mostly will change the implementation of invisible processes – what…
Almost half of richer, digitally-savvy South Africans want to buy cryptocurrencies, according to new research from Business Insider. But are they a flash in the pan – or the future of finance? Cryptocurrencies are a subset of digital currencies which the Bank for International Settlements describes simply as assets represented in digital form. PayPal and…
On 22 May 2010, a programmer bought two large pizzas for 10 000 bitcoins, worth about $30 at the time. Exactly eight years later, those bitcoins were worth $82 million. They’ve come a long way. Cryptocurrencies are no longer the inaccessible trading grounds of tech-insiders; they offer real investment possibilities to real people – provided…
Collision of ideas and perspectives fosters the emergence of unconventional collaboration and new solutions to tough challenges. Read the full article here.
Your stars do deserve star treatment, but there is a rational, data-driven, and fair way to provide it, which will minimise perceptions of a rigged or nepotistic culture in your team or organisation. For sure, having no approach. Read the full article here.
In my coaching work with leaders and teams, I often ask my clients whether they engage in workplace gossip. More often than not, they respond, ‘of course not!’ with a look on their faces that indicates that they are insulted to have been asked such a question. Read the full article here.
A root cause of resistance to change is that employees identify with, and care for, their organisations. People fear that after the change, the organisation will no longer be the entity that they value and identify with. Change leadership that emphasises what is good about the envisioned change and bad about the current state of…