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Five Fundamental Rules Of Research
A Research Question Is A Constraint The first rule of reliable research is simple: the question must constrain the work.
What Really Matters In Academia
The Quiet Contract A student submits a paragraph that sounds confident but cannot show where the claim came from.
Fast Growing Startups in Africa
Financial M-Pesa Paystack (Nigeria) TopCheck (South Africa) Snapscan Paga Zoona Interswitch Wealth Migrate Riovic BitPesa Flutterwave Lendable Lidya Pula…
Understanding Hinton
Part of Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks Series: Part I: Intuition (you are reading it now) Part II: How Capsules Work Part III: Dynamic Routing…
Thriving on Recession
By Riaan Steenberg Can your business survive a recession? It is easy to forget that recessions have been happening since the beginning of time and that there…
Project Managing the Start-up
Start-ups can gain a lot from project management methodologies and this article gives an outline of the main project management process that a start-up goes…
Rewriting South Africa’s National Narrative
Rewriting South Africa’s National Narrative By Dr Riaan Steenberg A country is partly governed by the story it tells about itself.
Recognition of prior learning is a very critical element in terms of Alfie to education system in South Africa
Recognition of prior learning is a very critical element in terms of Alfie to education system in South Africa.
The National Narrative Around South Africa Is Highly Flawed
South Africa often speaks about itself in the wrong language. We describe the country as if the central problem is always access to finance, access to…
Recruit Your Alter Ego
The most dangerous person to hire is often the person who makes the leader feel understood.
Negotiating Better
A negotiation is any form of engagement that is aimed at achieving or enhancing an agreement.
Functional HR Architecture
Most HR systems do not fail because the software is weak. They fail because the organisation has not decided how people, work, capability, cost and…