FROM THE PEN The primary champion issue I was reading an interesting article on the Mail and Guardian website a short while ago regarding the attacks in Alexandra, Diepsloot and other areas around the country. The article basically summed up the incidences as the “have nots” greed and envy of those that have. To say…
FROM THE PEN The golden issue I waited a while this month to get going on this editorial. As you are aware, every newspaper and television news bulletin, in boardrooms across the country, at lunches, meetings, in business editorials and corridor conversations, are all peppered with doom and gloom. So when I read this month’s…
FROM THE PEN The Prada Issue In a scene from that now infamous movie, ‘The Devil wears Prada’, Miranda Priestly (the Editor portrayed) tells Andy, the budding ‘serious journalist’, that her disdain of fashion is really just her ignorance of the business of fashion. She says to Andy (who sniggers because she thinks the blue…
FROM THE PEN The observation issue In this issue, we ask shareholders if they know the full extent of their tax liability (page 10) and on page 14, Colin Sutherland takes us on an interesting journey around Ruusia, south east Asia and Europe as he gets down to the business of implementing IFRS in very…
FROM THE PEN The People Issue At a recent Q&A session at a risk management media briefing, I was ceremoniously told by a fellow media colleague that the people, the voters should start to take ownership of the fact that, as a country, we have a serious skills shortage. And that it was not, as…
FROM THE PEN Who Googled Africa? In this issue, we deal extensively with the question of managing people within the business, and how this has a direct impact on a company’s financial performance (see the articles on page 14 and 16 respectively). In fact, both the authors portend that in order to ensure a company…