Mindset

We are all familiar with the seasons: Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring. If we think about it, applying seasonal cycles to business makes a lot of sense. Just like farming, each business has the same cycle: growth or recovery (spring), [...]

As I am writing this blog, winter has arrived in Cape Town with a bang, which means rain, cold fronts, and fewer daylight hours compared to the summer months. People travel to work and drop off their kids at school [...]

Winter is here! By now you should have no doubt about it. The highland areas and central SA have had a few weeks of bitter cold and the Western Cape finally has received its first real cold and rainy weather. [...]

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. was a man who possessed incredible amounts of money, but he once remarked, “I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making [...]

Several people have the desire to become an entrepreneur because they view it as a pathway to wealth building. In my locality, Nigeria, we recognise that entrepreneurs are people such as Aliko Dangote of Dangote Group, Oba Otudeko of Honeywell Group, and Abdulsamad Rabiu of BUA Group. All these well-known entrepreneurs started out as small trading businesses and grew into conglomerates operating across various [...]

If I remember my primary school history class correctly, it was a French philosopher Rousseau who said, “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”   Whether taxes, civil responsibility, or the responsibility for people, the carefree freedom we enjoy as children, teenagers, [...]

If you go to Google and type in ‘challenges that business owners face’, one of the results listed in 2018 is ‘Lack of business funding, marketing, and cash flow’. Now, if you Google ‘business challenges for 2021’, suddenly results are very, very different; ‘how to avoid burnout, how to avoid fatigue and how [...]