Leadership Insights Blog by Peter Alkema

Do you want to communicate better and have more impact? Are you overwhelmed by all the ways we communicate? Do you feel your voice gets lost in a noisy world? The world today is completely dependent on how we communicate. But …. with fake news and overflowing inboxes and too many Whatsapp groups …. we …

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Do you want to pass your Google Cloud Certification? Are you writing one of the Google Cloud or “GCP” exams? Google Cloud is one of the most popular public clouds and offers a suite of computing services for everything from data management to video, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning tools. Many companies are turning to …

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Do you want to learn Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Lightroom or InDesign? Join our Adobe community today. To achieve your creative goals, you’ll need the right teaching and support so boost your creative skills with Mike Lanesman in our new community. Mike’s background is in Photography and Digital Media. He is a …

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Jhan Burger’s Analyst Secrets (CFA) is a community of financial analysts looking for support, skills and encouragement to get through CFA exams and learn more about CFA concepts. Goal achievement is always easier with community support and Jhan’s team are here to help you at any stage of your CFA journey; Level 1, 2 and …

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Do you want to be a published author? Learn step by step and screen by screen how to publish your own work in the biggest online book store in the world.  In this course you will learn how to publish a Kindle ebook on Amazon using the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform. Ann went through …

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Learn podcast hosting, publish & promote podcasts on Spotify. Plus: take your podcast to the next level. Manish Sharma enrolled and said “Amazing! The stage is set, I am going to get this done. Thank you!” Have you been thinking about starting a podcast? Do you have an existing brand and would like to add …

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It’s HOW you prepare for it that makes it hard. Jhan Burger has converted his 15 years CFA experience into a range of CFA “Smart Tips” online courses to help you achieve your CFA dreams Most prep material providers use a linear teaching system… You have to read through pages, drowning in content and details, …

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$100 million; that’s what Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh once estimated bad hires had cost the company. $1 Billion; that’s what the Barings Bank collapse cost – also due to failed leadership and the wrong talent. Conservative estimates put the average cost of a bad hire at 30% of the first full year earnings. For executives …

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I love companies that started in a garage, such as Adobe, which is the unrivalled standard for digital creative software. The world’s 57th most valuable company was also named after a stream, Adobe Creek, which ran behind its founder John Warnock’s house, from where he started it in 1982. Pushing this startup quickly into profitability …

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“As a leader, is it better to be feared or loved?” This was asked in our recent leadership webinar when we were presenting key insights from our brand new Leadership Masterclass: A Guide To The Art Of Leadership. In the course we profile great leaders like Nelson Mandela and Gandhi, who I pointed our were …

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Top South African data scientists are solving critical challenges in society and making their mark on the global industry. From deliveries to cyber-security, advanced analytics is driving change; but it’s the leading thinkers behind these solutions that is really impressive. Delivery tech increasingly data reliant If you’ve ordered a delivery from South Africa’s largest on-demand …

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“Data is the new gold” means that firms are racing to extract value from all their data. As the world digitises, everything we do generates data. 5 billion people tapping, scrolling, clicking and interacting are generating mountains of data which is often unstructured and disconnected. Individual data points don’t mean anything on their own, but …

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