Tag Archives: leadership
Endeavor South Africa Appoints Catherine Townshend As Managing Director
Endeavor South Africa announced today the instatement of a new Managing Director, Catherine Townshend, beginning 1 May 2012. Catherine’s appointment coincides nicely with the launch of Endeavor’s Cape Town office, which looks to expand rapidly owing to the hotbed of high-impact entrepreneurial activity in the city.
Outgoing Managing Director, Malik Fal will remain on the Board [...]
Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Kick-Start Your Future With The Allan Gray Fellowship Programme
The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation is offering South Africa’s brightest young minds a head-start in life through its Allan Gray Fellowship Programme. This initiative aims to develop students, known as Allan Gray Fellows, into South Africa’s future high growth entrepreneurial leaders and includes comprehensive financial support as one its many benefits.
Applications to the Fellowship [...]
Book Review: Bill Clinton ‘Back To Work’
Despite Clinton’s obvious human flaws, he’s shown a remarkable ability to thread his way through politics and public opinion with deft subtlety. This book proves he’s a smart guy – really smart – and if you want a lucid peek into the debate raging within United States politics, you’ll do worse than a light canter [...]
UCT MBA Course Up Six Places To Rank 54 in 2012 Global MBAs
The full-time MBA programme at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) has been rated the best value-for-money MBA in the world, and has moved up six places to be ranked 54th in the latest Financial Times (FT) of London’s Global MBA Top 100, released today.
The UCT GSB remains the [...]
Heyneke Meyer: Can He Fix South African Rugby?
Regular readers will know that the authors of Ideate are sports fans. The big rugby news of the weekend was that Heyneke Meyer will be the new Springbok coach after a Special General Meeting of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) ratified his proposed appointment in Cape Town on Friday. Why’s this such big news? [...]
Forbes Releases ‘Most Powerful Women’ List For 2011
Forbes, one of Ideate’s favourite publications, released its 100 Most Powerful Women In The World list for 2011. There were no real surprises in the top 10 with old staples like Angela Merkel (this year’s number 1), Hilary Clinton and Indra Nooyi familiar faces on the list. Eyebrows will be raised once you look a [...]
How HR Is Influencing Business Success In A Changing Environment
Human resource management (HRM) has been a misunderstood and under utilised business resource for many years – but modern organisations are waking up to the potential and competitive advantage that a strong HR team can offer.
HR staff used to be seen as the administrative enforcers of the business’ management team – executive-centric and reactive, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Leading Women Of Africa Introduces Women Investors Programme
Coinciding with Global Entrepreneurship Week, Cape Town-based NPO Leading Women of Africa, released a press announcement that it aims to contribute to attaining the Millennium Development Goals in Africa through effective empowerment of women entrepreneurs. The organization is creating a platform that enables women in business in South Africa and abroad, supported by Governments, funders, investors and [...]
