Archive for October, 2008

Helplessness vs. self-governance

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 ...

StrategyTuesday #26: Ins and outs

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

As an entrepreneur you need to have your finger on the pulse of your business. You have to know all the small details of you business so that you would be able to make cutting edge decisions on where to go with your business. You need to know what your ...

Student Power

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

As an experimental exercise I gave my students R50 with the instructions to utilise it in whatever (legal) moneymaking scheme they could think of. I wanted to see what profits they could generate. They only had two weeks after which they had to pay me back. Any profit ...

More entrepreneurs please

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Clem Sunter and Chantell Ilbury are scenario planners who for years have been identifying probable triggers in society and then describing the possible futures that might result because of these triggers. In an article “Triggers that change the future” they identified 2 triggers for South Africa (and 2 for the rest ...