There’s something magnificent about rowing: the sun glints its reflection as you watch a boat or kayak glide – seemingly effortlessly – across the water. A team of eight moves in perfect synchronisation; their collective efforts helping the vessel move that little bit closer to its destination. If you are...
Richard Angus, Louis Groenewald and Steve Giddings, MD of Frontier Coffee Corporation address the importance of knowing your market and your competition.
It takes courage and a degree of humility to recognize that your company needs to implement a turnaround strategy. The decision may have been months or even years in the offing; the swelling worry as you watch your expenses mounting and your coffers draining. Or, it could have happened seemingly...
Last weekend, friends of ours attended a wedding. True to South African tradition, it went on for longer than a work day! Our friends have a one-year old child who needed to be babysat. They decided to share the load between two sets of relatives. The first relatives would do...
The Leadership Platform panel speak with Myron Zaidel, co-founder Soviet Jeans, about lessons learnt during his entrepreneurial career… click here
You may be familiar with the quip: “When times are tough, the marketing budget is the first to go”. If you have any friends in the advertising field, you’ll know that they often feel like they’re walking a long road uphill. “Even when we create brilliant adverts that bring in...
Of all the roles connected to project management, project accounting is arguably one of the most specialized and simultaneously ubiquitous in the field. A project accountant’s role as “a specific project management practice that identifies, monitors, and summarizes costs incurred in a project to provide an overview of the project’s financial...
Next in our series of inspiring female financial executives is Glenda Flanagan, CFO of US-based organic grocery chain Whole Foods. Flanagan is the longest-serving female financial director in a Fortune 500 company. She took the position in 1988 and has seen the company grow meteorically over the last three decades. Unlike...
Adriaan and Louis Groenewald, along with Tracey Webster and Wendy Mahoney, former National General Manager of the entire Trudon (Yellow Pages) sales force, talk about the biggest mistakes sales reps make, and how to avoid them. Listen to the podcast here
