Demand for top leaders
There has been an increase in demand of more than 100% for senior leaders from South African companies over the past three months, as businesses urgently play catch-up to fill their top posts. Debbie Goodman-Bhyat, CEO of Jack Hammer, says there has been a wave of briefings from across all sectors since September.
FAMILY BUSINESS SECTOR REPORTS GROWTH
Despite the current economic uncertainty and the accelerating pace of change, South Africa’s family business sector has high ambitions for quick and aggressive growth...
EXPAND INTO AFRICA
According to the 2016 African Economic Outlook report, Africa’s annual GDP growth increased from around 2% in the 1980s and 1990s to above 5%...
CASH FLOW CRUNCHING!
Every Small & Medium Business should be aiming to have some savings in the bank as a buffer for difficult months when sales are...
BUSINESSES SHOULD COMPETE WITH THEMSELVES
It may sound like an oxymoron, but Michiel Jonker, Director, Advisory Services at Grant Thornton believes that this kind of fearless innovation is most likely...
PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS WELLNESS
Small businesses are often the first ones to be hardest hit during difficult times.
However, there are ways business owners can take control –...
HOW TO DEFY COMPANY DEATH
British Home Stores and Woolworths in the UK, Radio Shack and C&J Energy Services in the US, Japan’s Skymark Airlines and Brazil’s fourth largest...
DELINQUENT DIRECTOR: CONSEQUENCES
The fiduciary duties of a company director are found in section 76 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 ("the Act”) and the common...
LEAD CREATIVELY
Courage and inspiration are words often used in storybooks, rarely leaving the pages they were written on.
Creativity could be placed in the same...
