You probably know what I think of work/life balance. It’s nonsense. It’s just not part a workable success formula. Why am I so adamant about this? It’s simple: while you’re balancing your life, someone else will be taking your job! The business space has too much momentum to just step off when you feel like […]
How is this for a staggering statistic: the USA predicts that 40% of the workforce will be ‘unemployed’ by 2020. This doe not necessary mean that the people will be without jobs. It means that people will be used in a more variable way – instead of having a job, you’ll have a ‘gig’. The […]
Somehow a list of possible #tag topics appeared on my screen – I must have inadvertently set something off when my finger slipped on the keypad. I was quite surprised to see what was revealed. Take a look at the top 15: #Futurism ……………………………………………………………….. 24.2m (wozzat?) #Socialmedia …………………………………………………………… 19.4m #Marketing ………………………………………………………………. 18.0m #Branding ………………………………………………………………… 17.8m […]
*Includes CA(Z) and CA(NAM). Your attitude on the work place is paramount. And, your choice of words is equally important. The requirement of a positive and can-do attitude is essential. So, be very careful of your language that you use when you are talking to your boss. Here are 5 phrases that need to be […]
So, you’ve plugged along giving to your best – long hours, always agreeable, nice and pleasant to everyone. But where has it got you? Still stuck in the same place! If you are not getting ahead the way you want to, you are doing something wrong. And this is an epiphany! If you get this […]
The news at the moment is decidedly worrying. Probably the one issue that concerns me the most is the ever-increasing unemployment statistics. Just yesterday I again was reminded of the staggering number of people who are unemployed. Something like 8,500,000 people! And growing – 28% of the entire working population with over 300,000 people having […]
Clients often say to me that they prefer to just “stay out of the politics” – (that is at work, I mean). All well and good but, they also need to realise that they have just put a cap on their career. How is that? Well, there are two domains that we as, CAs(SA), can […]
Being in the career advisory space, I often encounter clients who are appear (especially to themselves) to be seriously stuck – they spend wasteful time negatively judging themselves, comparing themselves with others and drawing inaccurate conclusions. From where I sit, it is easy to understand why they just don’t know which way to go – […]
Let’s face it, artificial intelligence is coming at us like a tsunami! If you don’t quite know what AI is, just think of it like this: it’s robotics but at a ‘human’ level. It’s a robot that will be able to make, say, 100,000 decisions and it won’t necessarily be a physical steel-shaped apparition. It […]
Considering the stuff that really creates success, it is actually a lot more simple than you might think. The overriding ingredients are sourced from places other than pure brains and intelligence. In fact, they emerge from two basic character traits: perseverance and determination. Now don’t let me confuse you. Simplicity does not mean ‘easy’. Easy […]