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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
My mother is keeping the newspapers these days – she feels that we are amidst a momentous historical event and she wants to keep her personal archive up to date.
Years from now people will refer to the global recession (depression?) of 2008/9. They will discuss the major economic and existential ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Entrepreneurs need to find and seize opportunities in their environment. Today, this environment is complex and volatile and therefore presents challenges to the entrepreneur. Language can be a powerful cognitive tool in increasing the ability to find solutions and new opportunities (see posts on questions, use of language, ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The delay of gratification is the ability to purposefully defer immediate reward for the sake of delayed, but more desired future outcomes. The ability to persevere in an endeavour, in anticipation of larger gain, is an important indicator of psychological maturity [Hall & Lindzey].
Victor Frankl tells the story of ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Determination is: a firmness of purpose, steadfastness, and single-mindedness [Readers Digest Oxford].
Entrepreneurs are people who refuse to let go of their dreams or goals in life. They display an ability to sustain the same commitment and capacity in the long run.
During interaction with entrepreneurs I often felt that their accomplishments ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
I had to renew my motor vehicle licence last week. I realised anew how I dreaded it to deal with government organisations. If I could structure my life in such a way that I didn’t have to have contact with any government official, I would gladly do it. ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Excellence is the quality of being outstanding of exceeding normal expectations. Seth Godin uses the metaphor of a purple cow to illustrate excellence. It is a product or service that just like a purple cow would make you look twice. It is something remarkable.
Excellence, I think, is ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
After reflecting on our business ventures we realised that in the past five years we have not once needed to advertise to get new clients. We continually get new business contracts due to referrals from our existing clients.
Up until now we have not really thought about referrals and ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Amazon.com stopped using the South African Post Office this week – too many of their consignments are being stolen while in the care of the post office.
Government-subsidised houses for poor South Africans are sold to illegal immigrants because it seems that the immigrants are more than willing to pay bribes ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Robbins listed five questions he believes are commonly used by people who successfully solved challenges. These questions empower you to identify alternative solutions to challenges.
The five questions are:
What is great about this problem?
What related to this situation is not perfect yet?
What am I willing to do to make it ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
It is important to ask the right type of questions when you are in a tight spot. [Refer to the post on the “use of language”]
Questions like why me, why did this have to happen, how can they do this and why are they so unfair rarely leads to a ...
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