Advice: Being a Persuasive Speaker
Aristotle broke down persuasion into three essential components: logos, pathos and ethos. Let’s look at how to incorporate these components within your next speech. Read the full article here.
Advice: Keep Fit, Despite Work Pressure
Keeping fit despite pressure at work is no easy task, but it is not impossible. When you are fit it certainly helps to manage stress, to be healthier, be more productive, sleep better and enhance concentration levels. Read the full article here.
Advice: Is your IQ/Ego > 1?
Leading others is daunting, but it’s the reason I get up every day. To influence and lead others is a privilege – and honestly, the most exciting part of my job. Great leadership transforms societies. But how can we measure it? Read Brett’s full article here.
VIEWPOINT: Assessing your retirement savings
The retirement landscape in South Africa is characterised by two pension systems: an advanced formal pensions sector and a means-tested social security system. However, a concern raised by actuary Rob Rusconi is that of the large ‘uncovered gap’ between these two systems: those individuals who benefit from neither The biggest systemic issue, given South Africa’s…
VIEWPOINT: RECEIVING FEEDBACK
We are all on a journey of self-development. As a speaker, every time you get up onto a speaking platform, regardless if you are speaking to an audience of 5 or 5 000 people – your purpose is to improve your skills as a speaker. In this article, I share my personal insights on what…
VIEWPOINT: Digital advice − a magic wand?
Research and Markets in their 2016 report Robo advice: revolution or evolution suggest that low-cost, automated investment advice is set to become the core of financial planning services, with a market potential of $19,5 trillion assets under management (AUM) What does this mean? The growth will no doubt be exponential. In a 2016 report Deloitte…
VIEWPOINT: AI and learning culture
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already changed the way that we operate in our lives and businesses to a great degree and will continue to do so exponentially into the future. How will this ‘machine learning’ translate into our own learning and workplace culture? In 1999 Salzberger-Wittenberg, Williams and Osbourne wrote an interesting piece on human…
VIEWPOINT: IN GOOGLE WE TRUST
There is a Tesla Roadster broadcasting David Bowie on repeat while travelling through space. What a time to be alive! And, I’d argue, the perfect time to rethink what it means to be human. But, we need to do it very carefully We’re welcoming robots into our homes, cars and workplaces. And they are enabling…
VIEWPOINT: ‘Banking’ Your 2018!
South Africans are in for a ‘bank’-ride this year with at least four new banks hitting the high streets, shopping malls or just smartphones The banking and financial services industry will probably get more attention this year than any year since the Cape Town doors of Lombaard Bank opened in 1793. And as a stakeholder…
VIEWPOINT: Deemed Disposal: At Death
Section 9HA of the Income Tax Act is a deemed disposal rule for deceased persons is effective from 1 March 2016 and is applicable in respect of a person who dies on or after that date Section 9HA of the Income Tax Act and the rewritten section 25 relocate some of the capital gains tax…