Pelser: Beware entrepreneurial burnout. Go on, have some fun.
Burnout, a concept that only ever hits someone after the critical point has passed. But given the pressures of today’s world, how does one prevent it?
Burnout, a concept that only ever hits someone after the critical point has passed. But given the pressures of today’s world, how does one prevent it?
Jani takes us into her life, a Rodrigues-type reality of American anonymity after her brief few days of fame in South Africa. Welcome back Jani.
A hugely successful adaptor to change, City Press’ Editor Ferial Haffajee on her experiences as a budding journalist at the end of Apartheid, her interview with Mandela at the age of 22, and where she sees print media heading, if anywhere at all.
Police vowed on Friday to take strong action against a policeman who allegedly took part in the looting of foreign-owned shops in Soweto.
The gruesome murders of foreign journalists by the Islamic State group contributed to 2014 being a particularly deadly year for international correspondents.
Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway tends not to play by anyone else’s rules, and certainly hasn’t held back here in her assessment of sucking-up tweets
This week Lucy Kellaway went spying – eavesdropping on besuited strangers with boring jobs. And came to a surprising conclusion: White collar workers are not irrational after all.
By Alec Hogg Enjoyed a productive half hour yesterday with an MBA student researching the relationship between financial journalists and business leaders. Her probe asked whether closer relationships would improve the flow of information; whether friendships enhance or detract from the service both provide their constituencies. The best answer was in yesterday’s contribution to Biznews … Read more
Ray Hartley has long been recognised as one of South Africa’s best journalists. A former editor of the Sunday Times, he possesses the researcher’s passion for facts, a newsman’s eye for a story and the courage to publish, no matter how powerful the tails it tweaks. These skills were applied in full measure during the three years he … Read more
By Alec Hogg Few business personalities have been interviewable (is that even a word?) for all the time I’ve been a journalist. New Yorker Joel Stern, creator of the globally widespread EVA performance measure, is one. A regular visitor to SA since 1978, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing him on numerous occasions here and … Read more