‘Tis the Season to Be Jolly: Terrified of the Annual Office Party
Some useful insight and advice from a brave survivor of the scariest of all corporate traditions – the office party.
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Shawn Hagedorn: Why Bureaucrats, Businesses, Boldness rarely mix
As high commodity prices fade, governments and non-government organisations are frenetically seeking to resurrect old ideas to boost Africa’s growth.
Bloomberg View: Uber’s IPO feels so much like Facebook’s – remember that disaster?
The Uber story of 2014 – filled with a Goldman private placement deal, a series of public relations setbacks and privacy-related backlashes – feels very much like the Facebook story of 2011.
The need for non-racial affirmative action in employment
South Africa has a moral obligation to address the wrongs of the past, but a race-based policy of affirmative action is an unjust and ineffective way of trying to achieve redress.
Bloomberg View: Americans getting fatter, sicker, poorer
Obesity is enormously costly, because it leads to health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
It’s lonely at the top – here’s how SA’s CEOs deal
Loneliness at the top does get rewarded – it’s the advantage of knowing that one is impacting on millions of lives. As SA’s new age CEOs step on the gas, the future is bright, as we speed towards 2015.
Lucy Kellaway: Eliminating miserable middle management may be a mercy killing, not a crime
Lucy Kellaway: Almost all companies are dysfunctional, and the place that hurts most is half way up. Being a middle manager is the most thankless job.
Cees Bruggemans: Oil price collapse to boost SA economy at least 2.5% in 2015
Sometimes we South Africans get confused about who our real global friends might be. The bottom line of the collapse in the oil price is set to provide a timeous reminder.
Andy Home: US Senate exposes how bankers made a mint out of copper
December 2010 and the copper market was booming.
Commodities cycle is alive and well – and turned very, very bearish
Anybody who still has lingering doubts that the commodity cycle has turned bearish need only delve into two reports released this week on Australia’s resources sector.