Every time you visit a new website, enter a new airport, visit a new store, examine a new book... the question you ask first off is, what does this remind me off or rather "what's this like?" At a strange airport, if it's 'like' your airport, you know just what to do. It's easy. If…

1. Avoid putting things in writing. 2. Never tell the client “no” 3. Always manage client expectations upward. Might as well make it a challenge for the team 4. Avoid all client contact. No good can come from it...right? 5. Change team members frequently;encourage your client to do the same.This way nobody gets bored +…

Vuka Advisory Board of Directors for Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Business Development Specialist – Corporate position Vuka Advisory Board for Small Medium Enterprise is a section 21 entity founded on the King III Report of Codes of Good Practice. Vuka is an independent and non-executive body that provides advisory services to small medium enterprises with…

Vuka Advisory Board of Directors for Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Business Development Speciality Position Vuka Advisory Board for Small Medium Enterprise is a section 21 entity founded on the King III Report of Codes of Good Practice. Vuka is an independent and non-executive body that provides advisory services to small medium enterprises with the primary…

The two best ways to break through a dull and unproductive habit and make an impact: 1. Find things that others have accepted as the status quo and make them significantly, noticably and remarkably better. 2. Find things that you're attached to that are slowing you down, realise that they are broken beyond repair and…

When we teach a child to make good decisions, we benefit from a lifetime of good decisions. When we teach a child to love to learn, the amount of learning will become limitless. When we teach a child to deal with a changing world, she will never become obsolete. When we are brave enough to…

“Think of a time you thought creatively. Tell me about one creative idea that you harbour in your mind. It can be about anything”. I have asked this question to learners in nine provinces over six years, sadly about 5% could respond with a compelling idea, the rest just stared blankly at me. Thinking that…

Do you remember what you had for lunch yesterday? If you take a second, you probably do. Now, do you remember what internal dialogue and little thoughts you had racing through your mind a few minutes before lunch yesterday? Almost certainly not. Little thoughts last for a very short time. They come, and inevitably, they…

“Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting…

An hour into *The Zulu, time stops. Bongeni Ngema walks out in his traditional zulu cultural clothes, shouts out to Nicely Nicely Sipho and then Sipho and the cast start belting: "Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down you're rocking the boat." Adrenaline flows. The crowd goes wild. In that moment, art triumphs over…

The explosion of media channels, radio, television and public events means that more people are being interviewed about more topics than ever before. It might even happen to you... and soon. The following are some of my observations and I would recommend the following tips: 1. They call it giving an interview, not taking one,…

Do you let the facts get in the way of a good story? What do you do with people who disagree with you? Do you call them names in order to silence them? Are you open to multiple points of view, or do you demand compliance and uniformity? [Are you willing to walk away from…