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Every Christmas motorists receive a number of warnings about the spike in road traffic accidents – according to the Road Traffic Management Corporation, a shocking 1 221 fatal road accidents occurred during this period last year – yet just as important is making sure you understand what to do if you are involved in

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Anne Pratt

Career and strategy leadership

‘Conscious leadership’ assumes that leadership is a trait that can be taught and learnt rather than just a quality that people are born with. There are ‘natural’ leaders but if we are ‘teachable’, we learn and develop our leadership capability ...

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Lientjie Potgieter

Colour can improve productivity

Employees can get to know themselves and be the best they can be – with colour. Knowing your true self will help you set realistic goals for your life and your personal and professional relationships. The outcomes of not knowing ...

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Samantha Crous

Let’s work together on skills

A coalition between Government, the Private Sector and SETAs is necessary to tackle skills shortages. According to the latest skills survey from the Institute of Directors (IoD), the growth of nearly 60% of businesses is being held back by a lack ...

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Asanda Makanda

Employees can save you electricity

Raising employee awareness drives down your electricity bill. Teaching employees how to save electricity could save your company as much as 10% of its current electricity bill. Each employee’s electricity use costs the average company around R300 – ...

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Gail Cameron

Power of social intelligence

Former US President Bill Clinton, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former South African President Nelson Mandela are known as leaders who understood and mastered the art of changing ...

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Eliminate cyber loafing

A business cyber loafing policy is vital to stop mega losses. Multi-million rand productivity losses go unaddressed by South African businesses because of their failure to develop a company policy to regulate their people’s use of social media in the ...

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Jules Newton

Bosses are a major retention tool

Few of us want to face the fact that, as bosses, we influence whether people leave or stay. It is said that when people start a new job, they join a company. But when they leave, they usually leave a ...

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Mawethu Cawe

Your people are your business

It is easy to forget that people are at the heart of organisations. Human capital is the bloodflow of any corporate strategy, and thereby draws on the motivations, expectations, creativity, skills and passion of each and every individual. As such, ...

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Jianele Gabriel

Degree not essential for leadership

“YOU DON’T NEED TO HAVE A DEGREE TO BE A LEADER – OR A MAN.” (Nelson Mandela, in conversation with Richard Stengel)I was struck by this comment when I heard it recently in an audio clip of former President Nelson Mandela ...

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Thursday, 26 January 2012

CXO Advisor announces new principle advisor

CXO Advisor recently announced the addition of Kim Andersen to its team. The company offers guidance and counsel to senior executives in the effective management of their organisation’s Information Technology, ...

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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

GIBS Professor Nick Binedell appointed as Dean at GIBS

The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) today announced that Professor Nick Binedell is to be appointed to the newly created position of Dean at ...

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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

High speed 3G connectivity without need for data contracts

Being able to work on the move is becoming an increasingly important aspect of the modern business, and 3G has become the standard for mobile connectivity, but being locked into ...

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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

OAM helping local networks achieve carrier-class efficiency

For Ethernet to attain ubiquity it needs to deliver a high degree of confidence, especially when more than one service provider is involved in service delivery. Fault Management, Configuration Management, ...

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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

DCC distributes Overlands' SnapServer DX locally

Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) will now be delivering Overland Storage's SnapServer DX, unified NAS and iSCSI SAN device that leverages their new RAID technology, DynamicRAID, to eliminate the need ...

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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

PPS to award R1 million in bursaries and scholarships

PPS – the financial services company focused on graduate professionals – has announced it is giving away R1m in bursaries and scholarships to help South African students finish their university ...

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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

SA business schools awarded top three rating

The University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) has been ranked one of the top three business schools in the Africa and Middle East region in a Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Global ...

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Monday, 23 January 2012

Q-KON HotZONES get top marks from Swaziland educators

Q-KON has rolled out a HotZONE (public broadband access network), facilitated through Wavion wireless network technology, to its Swaziland-based client, Nkosiphile Innovations. The project has been successful and plans are ...

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Monday, 23 January 2012

RDB Consulting partners with Oracle to offer database security

Information has become the currency of today's world, and database security is of the utmost importance when it comes to safeguarding this wealth from theft and data loss. RDB Consulting, ...