Tag: management

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Business leaders often struggle to find a balance between protecting commercial interests and adhering to the principles of good business ethics. Following the recent spate...

Diversity, if seen as a powerful tool and harnessed properly to serve the business purpose, can be an asset contributing to positive business growth,...

In a highly fragmented world the consumer is looking for simplicity and navigable signs to know which brands to transact with and which to...

There are reports that SAA chair, Dudu Myeni, has recently missed several special board meetings, and that her colleagues on the board are taking...

Social inequality is a strategic risk for businesses globally, and particularly in South Africa. Consequently, directors need to ensure that initiatives to reduce inequality...

Performance management systems have become too time-consuming and cumbersome - the time is right for a reboot. This guide will show you how to revisit...

The future of business is in the cloud. That is the message from global analysts as the latest IT sales figures show a marked shift away from hardware. The shift to cloud services and other Digital Business solutions has slashed Gartner's global IT spending growth forecasts by half: a cut of $67bn for this year alone, with data centre growth predicted at a modest 0.3% in 2017.

We see leaders all around us: we see them in businesses, parliament, communities, and even in social settings. We see them amongst the rich and the poor, men and women, young and old. Consider a group of small children playing for example: one always tends to take the lead while the others follow. But if we see so many leaders, why do we find so little leadership?

From his 30 years as a top strategy consultant, Tony Manning has distilled a set of must-do strategy practices that apply to every company everywhere. These are the critical core.