So here’s the bad news – without belief in yourself you will perpetually be a victim of your own circumstances. If you do not believe that you can make a difference you won’t! And here is a staggering statistic – most human being do not believe that they can change their own circumstances. They are […]
How many business meeting do you attend every week? I’m sure at least a few. But are meetings largely a waste of time? Sometimes they might seem that way. But if you have to attend meetings, use them to your best advantage. In fact meetings are great places to get your ‘brand’ out there. And they are […]
I had a rather interesting experience which I thought might be valuable to share with you. Yesterday I met with a young CA who again reminded me of the power of a strong self-esteem. It was quite subtle but gob-smacked me much more than I expected. When he arrived and introduced himself, I was struck […]
Try this. . . . . ACCOUNTING IS ARITHMETIC MADE DIFFICULT I any event, the size of the numbers have grown exponentially (from shillings and pence to billions of Rands) and so the accounting systems have needed to be much more complex. Now I am not proposing that we drop the systems and revert back […]
Every budding CA has had to make the call on whether to stay in the profession or to move out into the corporate world. The transition looks quite daunting. but it need not be if you consider that there are a number of skills that you have developed in your auditing career that will stand […]
http://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/want-to-increase-your-emotional-intelligence-watch-these-5-ted-talks-today.html Recent research has shown that a person’s belief around stress determines how they will be affected. In the research project it was found that people who believed that stress was bad for them had a greater chance of dying earlier. Quite an interesting experiment. I suppose all of us to some degree have […]
How would you like to have your office right on the top of this beautiful landscape? Impossible? Not anymore. Technology is now making it possible to run an office from a car parked at a water hole in the Pilanesberg Game Park whilst watching elephants having a swim. What with wi-fi, Skype, the scanner and […]
Too often my clients tell me that they want to be more involved in strategy. My first question is ‘what do you understand by the word strategy?’ The answers vary across the board, none of which usually deal with what I understand to be strategy! So here is a simple way of looking at what […]
There is something profoundly powerful about the picture above. It tells a story of an emergence and an awakening. It seems that there are some who are totally blindfolded (the blue people) whilst others are in various states of awareness (the yellow/orange people). It might be that whoever painted this picture had some mysterious spiritual […]
If you are getting to grips with the power of social media you’re smiling. There is no doubt that your future credibility and effectiveness will lie in your ability to master social platforms. And if you are a business, know that you better watch out what your customers and perspective customers are thinking about you […]