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When the founding father is away

Admit it – your small or mediumsized business is your baby. After all, you have conceptualised it, nurtured it and watched it grow.
The problem is that too many entrepreneurs are the business. When they go on a long holiday, are hospitalised, become disabled or decide to retire, the company effectively comes to a standstill.
“The real [...]

Job descriptions

- are they cast in concrete?
By Robert Niemand
Employers employ employees because they envisage that these employees will perform certain tasks which will contribute to the success of the company. With this in mind, employees are informed of what their functions are, i.e. the purpose of their employment. This can be done informally upon appointment or [...]

Life-long growth – a process

(The Law of Process according to John Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership)
By Tim Shaw
After eight years in the field of Leadership Development we know that one of a leader’s most significant challenges is to appropriately apply the discipline of personal growth.
Growth requires nutrition and exercise. To pick out the most appropriate nutrients to feed [...]

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Leadership/Management Differentiated

By Tim Shaw
Leadership and management are not mutually exclusive; the two concepts can and should be clearly differentiated though.
‘Management’ and the ‘manager’ are the well known terms that respectively refer to the activities in an organisation of organising, controlling and regulating and the person being in the position to execute those functions.
Traditionally, good management is [...]

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“Leadership, O’ Leadership wherefore art thou?”

There has been a fair amount of discussion in the various media about high profile “leaders”. When I heard one person touting a leader as someone who has two vital qualities – the ability to talk well and good technical skills, I was flabbergasted. The alarming part is not the fact that such ignorance exists [...]

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