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The modern day alchemist: Turning busy into time

Mar 14, 2018
3 min

The modern day alchemist: Turning busy into time

Peter Drucker, the management consultant that coined the phrase “knowledge worker” back in 1959, nailed it when he said: “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” This is the catch-22 companies face today. There is no doubt that companies need to innovate to ensure their future success, but to do this their people need to find the time to think, research, experiment and develop new ideas. Because we’re in the business of saving peop

Building an entrepreneurial culture

Feb 27, 2018
2 min

Building an entrepreneurial culture

Last year this time I wrote that you should take an entrepreneurial view of your organisation and start experimenting and breaking stuff. Why? Because if you don’t foster a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, you’re going to get left behind. If you thought 2017 was fast-paced and disruptive, hold onto your seats as we enter 2018. Virtually every major industry is going to be shaken up by technology and what it enables. Not for its own sake, though, but because custome

What is the new normal?

Sep 26, 2017
2 min

What is the new normal?

There’s no doubt that the last 12 months have got most people muttering, ‘Well, truth is stranger than fiction, after all.’ It’s easy to get caught up in the mass, global Chicken Little, ‘the sky is falling in’ reaction to events such as the Trump election and the Brexit referendum. We’re used to keeping an eye on the world to spot the trends, shifts, and Netflix series coming our way. But this can sometimes blind us to our unique experience living and doing business in Afric

Introducing the corporate entrepreneur

Mar 15, 2017
2 min

Introducing the corporate entrepreneur

Picture a typical entrepreneur. What springs to mind? Probably a hybrid of Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and a millennial doing something mysterious with social media in a trendy co-working space. And what link all three of these are innovation and risk: they notice problems in the world and want to fix them, and they commit time, money and skills to something that is essentially an experiment, with no guarantee of a return. Whoever you pictured, I’m fairly sure you didn’t pict