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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
To not humiliate a person in public or to take preventative actions to not be self humiliated in public is often referred to as ‘saving face’. ‘Saving face’ is about protecting the way in which other people view you.
‘Cut to pieces’ is the opposite of ‘saving face’.
A wise negotiator or ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
According to Drucker – the father of ‘modern management’ - the purpose of a business must lie outside of the business itself. A business cannot exist for itself and unto itself.
For Drucker, the only valid definition of a business purpose is to create a customer.
To have a successful business ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
To be successful you often have to narrow down your focus and become an expert in a defined area. According to Toffler, a spin-off from the industrial revolution was specialisation. Before this time, people grew their own food and raw materials, manufactured their own clothes and educated their own ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
My friend called it her elevator speech. It is a speech to successfully "sell" your business, cause, product or project within the few seconds you have while travelling with someone in the elevator.
She had changed her "elevator speech" from focusing on the merits of her projects (Deaf education) to ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
I was in a meeting today with established business people. Initially I felt uncomfortable and intimidated but decided to stay and listen. During the meeting they discussed their budget that is around a billion. A billion. That is way, way out of my current playing field.
After the meeting I felt ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
I want to be more personal in my post today, please bare with me.
My grandfather turned 92 yesterday. When I saw him this morning he was showing signs of fatigue. He had to answer more than 50 phone calls (on his mobile, his landline and the intercom of the ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
In my 5am talk with 84 year old entrepreneur, Eduard, he told me of a “vrek”, an Afrikaans word with a combinational meaning between a scrooge and a humdrum.
Eduard Pelzer was a true philanthropist so it was strange to me that he would use such a harsh term to describe ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Entrepreneurs are actively networking with people. They talk to people, find out what is important to people, what they are excited about and also share what they (the entrepreneur) are excited about. They are constantly connecting to people, gathering and spreading information and enthusiasm. Part of entrepreneur’s ...
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