Work the index
The list below is deliberately dense: scan dates, titles, and excerpts quickly, then open the essay that catches the thread.
Twenty-four articles per page keep the archive moving without making each card compete for attention.
Category: Articles
Roadmap
Read with direction.
Use this category as a focused corridor, then widen the map when a related question starts pulling you into another part of the archive.
Start with foundations
When you want the personal and philosophical base of the archive, begin with the Theory of the World essays.
Cross the boundary
Most useful ideas do not stay in one lane. Move sideways when a theme needs another lens.
Return to the whole
Step out of this category when you want the full field rather than one territory.
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Second Careers
Globally, more people are living longer. With the advent of modern medicine and global growth this has led to a situation that has not only seen an increase…
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Strategic Blunders
Strategic blunders rarely begin as obviously bad decisions. They often begin as sensible intentions. Reduce risk. Grow faster. Enter a new market. Protect…
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Adding Economic Value
When you study economics, you are taught that the price of a good or commodity is determined where there is a balance between the supply and demand for that…
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Small Ideas Big Decisions
Often greatness starts with just an idea. The idea, when shared gains momentum. More and more people become aware of the idea and the idea gets form. Form…
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Understand Your Numbers
Managers must understand their numbers. This is basic. A manager who does not know the numbers is managing from impression, memory, hope and anecdote. They…
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Managing Complex Sales
Smarter sales management There is a general perception that there are two types of people in the world – buyers and sellers.
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Power Sales
Sales is one of the least understood parts of business. Many people dislike the idea of selling because they confuse sales with pressure, persuasion tricks or the awkward personality of…
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Functional Architecture in People Practices
People practices often fail at the point where they are supposed to integrate. Recruitment does not connect cleanly to workforce planning. Performance…
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Doing What Is Important
We are faced with choices every day, every moment and in every thing. Every time we plan we have at least four choices Do nothing Maintain the status quo Do…
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Making Better Choices and Decisions
Sunday 7 April 2013 We are faced with choices every day, every moment and in every thing. Every time we plan we have at least four choices Do nothing…
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The Zen of Goals
The Zen of Business Zen is the art of minimalism. To search for Zen is to find the essence of being and to express it. It comes from insight and the world…
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Hitchhikers Guide to Designing a Successful Life
Have you considered what is required to be successful? This article looks at how success is achieved, but taking it a step further it looks at how the why…
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The First 100 Days
As you start a new job there is always an uneasiness that comes from a very basic question – “Am I doing the right thing?”.
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Demystifying Research
Demystifying the research process Research is one of the least understood areas of academia. When you start studying you think that you are there to learn a specific subject and soon find yourself sitting, having to do research into a topic. But what is research and how does it work? Why do we do it?
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Changing and Sustaining Direction
Changing and sustaining direction What does it take to change the world? Is it easier to change yourself? Many people get frustrated with their surroundings…
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Distribution – Not Content
In the current time there is a much talk about ‘content’. Statements such as companies with content will make it and that content should drive a digital…
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What Is My Purpose?
I have asked this question in different ways for most of my life. What is my purpose? Why am I here? What is the work I am supposed to do as Riaan Steenberg?…
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The Joy of Giving
Why would a millionaire give away a large part of his fortune? Why would a business school make available the content of all its business qualifications…
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Crowdfunding – the Future of Venture Capital
One of the most significant challenges in starting a new business is access to finance. You may also be surprised to hear terms such as crowd-funding, cloud…
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Approach Your Studies Successfully
Studying Is a System 2013 is an exciting time to be in or entering the workplace. This is particularly true if you are considering taking your career to the next level by furthering your education – there are more opportunities available to you now than ever before. Although studying (particularly if your time is already
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Time to Get Real
When 2013 started all of us were excited that the world did not end in 2012 as predicted. Next week is February already and it is time to reflect on your…
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It Is a New Life for Me in 2013
A New Life Begins With a Decision In the immortal words of legendary jazz singer, Nina Simone, “it´s a new dawn, it´s a new day, it´s a new life” and there certainly is reason to feel good in 2013. Especially if you´re thinking of furthering your education. Whether you are new to the job market,
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Guide of short skills for new managers
A practical guide to the short skills courses that help new managers become functional, confident and useful in the work of others.
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What You Measure Is What Gets Done
Measures Shape Behaviour An entire industry of books, gurus and consultants is based on the very idea that ‘what you measure is what gets done’. Countless people around the world people get performance managed but yet, the right things don’t always get done. It seems that innovation and performance cannot live in the same space.