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Book Review: Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers

27 July 2010

Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean, Karen Berman and Joe Knight present the essentials of finance specifically for entrepreneurial managers. Read more

Category: Entrepreneurship, Finance

A multi-layered legacy

27 July 2010

The last of the fireworks had barely heralded the end of a successful 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup when South Africans began debating the event’s legacy for future generations. Statistics and analysis will feature strongly in the months and years to come as researchers dissect the impact on GDP and foreign direct investment, and already the picture is unfolding. Read more

Category: Other

The world needs leaders who can multiply

12 July 2010

In a weak economy, most organisations need to get more done with fewer resources. This makes it critical to extract the most value out of their existing teams. But, if you think leaders can’t expect more from their already stretched employees, think again. Read more

Category: Leadership, Personal and Organisational Effectiveness

Book Review: Marketing in the Groundswell

12 July 2010

Since Groundswell was published in April of 2008, two things have happened: The global economy has gone into the dumper; and at the same time, marketers have fallen in love with social technologies." Read more

Category: Marketing and Sales

Meltdown offers career renegades a chance to come alive

21 June 2010

For those who feel trapped by a long, emotional investment in a career they loathe and have never explored a career with equal helpings of passion and prosperity out of a fear of being judged, unsupported or ridiculed, the global economic crisis offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore a radically different approach to the way they earn a living. But, if they don’t use it now, they may never have the willpower to do it again. Read more

Category: Other

Book Review: Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers

21 June 2010

Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand their needs? Because marketers themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Read more

Category: Other

Book Review: Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter

21 June 2010

Why do so many global strategies fail despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Seduced by market size, the illusion of a borderless, "flat" world and the allure of similarities, firms launch one-size-fits-all strategies. But cross-border differences are larger than we often assume, explains Pankaj Ghemawat in Redefining Global Strategy. Read more

Category: Other

Employees’ highest values are organisations’ greatest strengths

07 June 2010

Organisations that employ people to do the things they are most passionate about and inspire them the most, plot a course to greatness. A person’s energy and drive is greatest in the areas they consider most important. This makes employees’ highest values organisations’ greatest strengths. Read more

Category: Ethics, Human Resources, Leadership

Book Review: A Sense of Urgency

07 June 2010

Most organisational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). Read more

Category: Other

Book Review: Toxic Emotions at Work and What You Can Do About Them

07 June 2010

Believe it or not, many everyday workplace activities result in painful emotions – whether it's working under tight deadlines, setting performance goals or creating budgets. When leaders fail to manage that pain, it poisons the workplace: employees lose enthusiasm for work, suffer bruised egos and feel disconnected from the company and its goals, morale erodes and productivity plummets. Read more

Category: Personal and Organisational Effectiveness