ACT NOW TO REGAIN CONTROL OF YOUR BUSINESS, AND GET AHEAD IN 2021
For many businesses, the Covid-19 lockdown undermined all the plans we had made for 2020. While we don’t know what lies ahead in 2021 or beyond, this is all the…
Engineering and creative mindsets that build and break businesses
Building a business without either the ability to fix something or create something (preferably both) is truly hard. An engineering ability, using math’s and science to solve problems and/or a…
Creating wealth through your business
Wealth describes an abundance of a desirable thing. It could be friendship, love, money, access to a foodstuff and so on. From the context of a Business Owner, what does…
Manufacturing time in your business
The most precious commodity in the world is… time! What are the consequences of having no time? You have no time to think, no time to plan, and if you…
Turning your physical service into a digital, online, e-commerce service
…and increase customer reach, engagement, and revenues Once you start on a programme of digitization, it’s not a destination, it becomes a new way of looking at the business, and…
HOW TO BUILD YOUR BUSINESS BY RECRUITING THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING AT THE RIGHT TIME
As a small business owner, your biggest investment will be your staff. How you hire, who you hire, and when you hire, will have the biggest – positive or negative…
POSITION YOUR BUSINESS FOR SUCCESS AND MAXIMUM IMPACT
Wing Chun Kung Fu, a style of martial arts, requires that you have a secure footing on the ground in all its defensive and offensive actions. This footing “anchors” you…
BUILD RESILIENCE INTO YOUR BUSINESS TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR FUTURE
We often hear about being resilient to thrive and survive in business today. Why does this matter and what does it mean? The pace of change driven by fragmenting political…
Governance gets things done
Here is the story, titled “Whose Job Is It, Anyway?” This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be…
BUSINESS IS A BLOODY SPORT: WHY RISK MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT
In 2008, determined entrepreneur, Karabo Songo, established Olive Communications. I first met Karabo during the 2013 Business Accelerators radio segment, and was happy to discover that, by 2014, he’d followed through on…