Great leaders aren’t born; they are made through continuous learning, self-reflection, and action. If you aspire to become a great leader, it’s crucial to create a personal leadership development plan. This plan will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses as a leader, set specific goals for growth, and take the necessary steps to achieve …
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Good feedback is the key to improvement. This statement holds true not just in our personal lives but in the workplace as well. As a manager, providing effective feedback to your team members is critical to their growth and development, as well as the success of your team as a whole. Are you ready to …
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Digital disruption has revolutionized the business landscape in recent years. Organizations that have embraced these changes have thrived, while those resistant to adaptation have struggled. In this article, we will explore real-world examples of digital disruption in organizations and understand the implications for businesses. Ride-Hailing Services: Transforming Transportation. The transportation industry witnessed a significant disruption …
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In its latest Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report for 2022, the World Bank cited two South African examples of how digitisation can improve the efficiency of fiscal administration. Fingerprint-based biometrics have improved the social grant system and saved $65m annually, while tax compliance costs have been reduced with e-filing process for small and medium enterprises. …
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Whether you are managing a cost centre or a coffee shop, you need to understand finance fundamentals. Financial terms like balance sheets, income statements, liquidity ratios and trade receivables become important as you grow in your career or get to grips with how to run your own business. It’s not just your own confidence that …
The COVID pandemic and lockdowns around the world caused widespread disruption in numerous industries. Management teams have scrambled to find new strategies for growth and survival while workers struggled with lost income and blurred boundaries. In my article Coronavirus and the Zoom Boom I argued this was also an acceleration of digital transformation, something that …
FNB supports entrepreneurs with insights about tech and banking; #thisiswhywehelp The 4th Grindstone Accelerator workshop was held at ENS Africa’s offices in Cape Town, attended by techpreneurs such as Xuviate, Autopilot, Fonk and Picsa. A range of experts presented agenda topics such as intellectual property, due diligence, tax and culture, all of which aimed at …
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Field-tested, lean principles for high growth businesses and corporate projects that rely on disruptive, constant innovation for growth and sustainable success A business executive once told me that Agile is just a catch-phrase for making it up as we go along and “you IT guys need to get back to disciplined process” I didn’t disagree …
The billionaire rocket-scientist and exponential thinker recently sat down with TED’s Chris Anderson for a wide ranging interview. Having disrupted a number of industries with his never-take-no-for-an-answer entrepreneurial flair there was keen interest in his latest physics defying venture. Musk is currently trying to solve Los Angeles’ traffic congestion problems by creating a 3D network …
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Full-time MBA students at Wits University in Johannesburg study the management of technology and I was honoured to present a guest lecture as part of this learning module. Among a range of 4th industrial revolution topics we covered two brief case studies (Standard Bank and JP Morgan), exponentials and incumbents, the rise of the techpreneur …
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