Tag: BusinessStrategy

What happens when South Africa’s most successful CEOs, founders, and business leaders let their guard down? In CEO Nights, the bestselling author answers this question through candid conversations that reveal the realities of leadership beyond the boardroom. Drawing on his 25-year leadership journey across Africa, Mabunda explores the principles, mindsets and decisions that shape exceptional leaders.

Standing out in a competitive market and attracting consumers’ attention is not easy. To achieve this, a product’s overall appearance, known as its “get-up”, should be distinctive. A product’s get-up encompasses far more than its name or logo. It includes colours, packaging, shape, layout, graphics, labels and other distinctive visual features that consumers associate with a specific product.

Read our exclusive cover story titled - Operational resilience – adapting to geopolitical instability by Nashikta Angad, Movashan Moodley and Mishana Pillay, KPMG Southern Africa, plus a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics.

The Springboks’ remarkable journey from a humiliating 57–0 defeat in 2017 to their narrow 12–11 victory over the All Blacks in the 2023 Rugby World Cup final provides the foundation for Paul Steenkamp’s Stacked. The book explores how talented individuals can transform into exceptional teams through deliberate development, accountability and shared responsibility.

Predictions about the future of work have become commonplace. Every year brings forecasts about new technologies, changing job roles, and the skills employees will need to remain competitive. But as 2026 has unfolded, many of those predictions have moved beyond theory. They are shaping hiring decisions, influencing business strategy, and redefining what employers expect from their people.

Over 21 years of building a business have taught me many lessons about people, leadership, and sustainable growth. These lessons apply across industries and business environments. They also offer valuable guidance for South African business leaders navigating changing markets, evolving technologies, and complex workplaces.

When organisations conduct due diligence on a new customer, supplier or business partner, they often feel reassured once they verify the basics. The company registration checks out, the directors are identified, and the necessary documentation has been collected. The onboarding process then moves forward with confidence.

Traditional strategy rests on assumptions that often fail when organisations face uncertainty, complexity and rapid change. Professor Clayton Fraser Williams challenges these assumptions. He asks a deceptively simple question: What is strategy?

Building a business from an innovative concept into a resilient, market-leading enterprise is rarely a linear journey. Over the course of my career, from pioneering South Africa’s first online salary survey in 2000 to my subsequent corporate chapters through PwC and Old Mutual, I have learned that sustainable growth requires a fundamental shift in perspective.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved quickly from novelty to everyday business infrastructure. It now sits inside email platforms, document systems, customer service channels, finance tools and analytics environments, influencing how decisions are prepared and how work gets done.