Archive for 'Business Admin'
Holiday Finance Tip: Protecting Your Valuables
This one’s more of a holiday checklist, but still super-important to ensure you don’t end up wasting your hard-earned money if something goes south this holiday season.
First-off, if you’re leaving home on holiday, make sure that you don’t make it an absolute giveaway that you’re not there – holiday time is peak season for [...]
Looking Back To Plan Forward: Part 4
This week we will take a short journey through a series of exercises that we use to cement the leanings from the past year and prepare for the quantum leap into 2012.
The final part to this planning exercise is to make a list from your outstanding issues that needs and can be addressed in the [...]
Looking Back To Plan Forward: Part 3
This week we are taking a short journey through a series of exercises that we use to cement the leanings from the past year and prepare for the quantum leap into 2012.
Today we will begin to look ahead to 2012 and put pen to paper on what your BHAGs and WIGs are.
Let’s start with [...]
Looking Back To Plan Forward: Part 2
This week we are taking a short journey through a series of exercises that we use to cement the leanings from the past year and prepare for the quantum leap into 2012.
The next exercise is to rid yourself of any guilt that you may carry into the festive season and holidays.
Make a list of [...]
Looking Back To Plan Forward: Part 1
This week we will take a short journey through a series of exercises that we use to cement the leanings from the past year and prepare for the quantum leap into 2012.
The first exercise is a simple one but so many people neglect to do this each year let alone each day.
Take time to pause [...]
The 13 ‘P’s Of Growing Your Business
This post, although profound is not perfect or anything to do with Mr. Poppins Penguins. It is filled with propaganda issues pertaining to profit and procurement in your small business. So without further pause, here are the 13 P’s, in no specific order, you should be peering at when leading a business – proactively of [...]
Are Business Plans Like Battle Plans?
So you’ve downloaded a business plan template and you’ve sharpened your pencils and got out your calculator. If you go ahead and fill in all the boxes, will this plan be the foundation of a great business? I want to focus on what really goes into a good business plan, or a “business think” as [...]
Looking For Startup Venture Capital? 10 Things You Need To Know
During Global Entrepreneurship Week, I was fortunate to attend the Tech City UK Entrepreneurship Festival in London along with over 300 other startups and Venture Capitalists (VC’s) from around the globe. Apart from sharing insights about the kind of companies VC’s fund, they also let us in on what they look for.
Looking past the [...]
Can A New Financial Model Solve Poverty In South Africa?
Forty-six days a year at R64 a day. That is the average scope of a job created by the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) according to figures released by the South African Institute of Race Relations in January 2011.
Mannie Hirsch, prominent businessman and founder of The Gestalt Group, a consulting firm based in Johannesburg, [...]
Is South Africa’s Political Turmoil Derailing BEE?
The current political turmoil has had devastating effects on certain areas of the economy and may result in further unfortunate consequences for those involved and for many bystanders. In these uncertain times, it is easy for business to lose sight of its vision and goals, and focus on the negativity that abounds.
Deon Oberholzer, CEO of [...]
