Understanding what season you’re in is key to succeeding with your craft. If you’re going through a dark phase, depressed, business isn’t popping
Category: Business
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Growing Your Career
Careers are tough to maintain, there is quite a lot at play in order to have a sturdy growth path. It’s important for employees to be in a position
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Business with Marvin: Kabelo Kungwane
I am a Creative Director from Alex, the founder, and owner of KasiFlavour10, and a collector
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Andile Khumalo Talks Lessons Learned
As POWER 987 turns five this year, POWER Head of Digital Verashni Pillay sat down to chat to one of its co-founders, Andile Khumalo. Read the interview below. Verashni Pillay: How did POWER come to be? Andile Khumalo: Radio was always our plan. The strategy of MSG Afrika at the time was to be a...
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The Struggle for Small Business
Can I cry this cry even louder – as blacks we are suffering partly because of our lack of the simple notion of working together, we expect to rise without lifting others who need a hand. We complain about the big corporate as if they must take us out of our misery, but in actual...
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Andile Khumalo: We Need Inclusivity, Not High Walls
This week the Western Cape branch of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants in Southern Africa (Abasa) held its annual dinner to celebrate all the black candidates in the region who had passed their board exams to qualify as chartered accountants. The theme of this year’s celebration was “Impactful Economic Development”, and Advocate Thuli...
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Andile Khumalo: Small Businesses Have A Tide To Catch
In a scene from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius are discussing the final phase of their civil war. Cassius has been urging that they group their forces and take advantage of a secure location to catch their breath. Brutus, however, advocates heading off the enemy before it can recruit more men. “There is...
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Andile Khumalo: Our Bright Sparks Need Better Support
A few weeks ago, I found myself at a round-table discussion about the opportunities available to our generation as a result of the exponential growth expected from the digital economy in South Africa. The discussion quickly came down to what exactly was meant by the digital economy. Is it happening outside the “normal” economy, or...
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Perception Management – Corporate South Africa
“Explain to me why on earth you found it appropriate to test assets this way?” My manager impatiently asked, clearly very disappointed in my methods. “Well… I…” (I’m already too terrified to say anything) ” I thought…” Too tired to listen to my flimsy and soft spoken excuses, he impatiently cuts me off and replies:...
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Corporate Leadership
I would like to address corporate leadership in the modern world, business has become very global, and we can no longer operate in silos, as a country or continent. Leadership is a word that is thrown around in corporate and to most professionals all it means is a title of your position. All that leadership...