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Wanting Vs Having – the Key to Deciding to Become an Entrepreneur
Wanting vs having – the key to deciding to become an entrepreneur We are often frustrated when we realise that we cannot have and we then get into space that…
Are Fewer Products Better for You
Are fewer products better for you? Being an entrepreneur is a unique challenge. While you need to focus, you also need to adapt. We live in a world that is…
Expand Your Organisational Capabilities – Use It or Lose It
An organisation is essentially a set of capabilities that combine to achieve specific objectives.
Teaching Yourself to Be an Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship programmes are often flawed. As an educator and lecturer I get to spend a lot of time with entrepreneurs and recently I started focusing on…
When Adaptability Meets Change
By Riaan Steenberg Tumi, last year’s employee of the year, storms out of the room after a major altercation with her boss about poor job descriptions, bad…
Reconstruction – Beyond Holism
Reconstruction – beyond holism The doctrine of holism shows us that all that is, is part of a greater system and that each system of even a larger system.
Mindful Processes – Processes with Meaning
A process becomes dangerous when people follow it without remembering why it exists. The form is completed. The approval is requested. The meeting is held….
Stimulating Entrepreneurship in Developing Markets
Stimulating entrepreneurship in developing markets Is entrepreneurship in the developing markets the same as entrepreneurship in more established markets?
The 5C Framework as a Management Tool
The 5C Framework A simple framework is useful when it forces better questions. The 5C frame is one of those tools: Culture, Category, Competitor…
Digital Traces Platforms Keep
The Hidden Ledger of Digital Waste By Dr Riaan Steenberg The modern internet keeps a ledger most people never see.
Data Exhaust and Digital Ownership
Who Owns Your Digital Waste By Dr Riaan Steenberg Every digital action leaves residue. Searches, clicks, unsubscribes, locations, abandoned forms, old…
When Organisations Become Bureaucracies
There is a delicate time between when a business stops growing and when it becomes a bureaucracy.