If there ever was a need for proof that observing Business 101 principles isn’t enough to bring about business success, a visit to a large and busy mall in the festive season to observe customers and business interactions provides proof of such inadequacies.
For some businesses, maintaining flexibility and dual operational strategy might be the additional missing link needed to ensure success. By Nimroth Gwetsa, 28 December 2016. Continue reading
Persistent failure to persuade people to consider our proposals could sometimes be owing to our asking wrong people for help, seeking answers in wrong places and knocking on wrong doors. By Nimroth Gwetsa, 30 June 2016. Continue reading
For some, these are hard economic times we live in: Government debt is increasing, tax revenue is declining and prices for goods and services are increasing. Businesses and consumers are feeling the pressure. Almost all economic sectors have shed jobs and some continue to do so. Many companies and families are forced into bankruptcy. Hope has been lost, resulting in others taking avoidable, yet irreversible drastic actions. Where there is life, there is hope. By Nimroth Gwetsa, 09 December 2014.
By Nimroth Gwetsa, 11 November 2014
(Image: http://www.pestworldforkids.org/pest-guide/ants)
We are told ants are among best “open-source educators” on our planet that could give life’s most valuable lesson to sluggards. A quotation from King Solomon’s writings says, “Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise, which, having no chief, officer or ruler, prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest.”
(Pictures courtesy of African Globe: http://www.africanglobe.net/africa/cape-town-tales-city/)
We have heard politicians talk about South Africa having parallel economies[1]: one serving the well developed and the other, emerging sector of our society. The dichotomy should ideally result in active companies in the economy equally thriving in the development of new offerings and in the reuse of existing products and services. Reuse, in this case, referring to the creation of additional revenue by leveraging existing offerings and applying them in a different context. Writes Nimroth Gwetsa, 2 October 2014.