Take a Knee
I recently had the chance to view “After Earth”, in which Will Smith and his son play the major roles. The first time it was great to watch and I did so whilst doing...
Category: Management 101
Diversification in Wine Industry
I recently read an article by Anine Vermeulen in the Engineering News of 15 November 2013. In this article she quotes Karin de Villiers, the winemaker and director of Klein Roosboom, as saying that...
Measuring Success
How do we define success? Is it sufficient to state that if you achieve your objectives you are successful? I am not all that sure. Let’s look at a number of scenarios. I teach...
Control AND Autonomy
Henri Fayol has elevated control within the world of business to the level of one of the functions of management. One can also safely say that control is important with the fields of life...
Business Lessons from Ronnies Sex Shop
I recently had the privilege of sharing a strategy weekend with my MBA students of the University of Stellenbosch Business School. In addition to the great socialising we all shared and experienced, a number...
The Ten Laws of Business
After thinking about business in general, I thought about the essence of success in business. This led me to identify the following “laws” of business success. One could probably add various other factors to...
Branding Lessons
I have been driving around in my old VW Kombi for close to 8 years. It was 11 years old, and although it had relatively low kilometres, I knew it was time to start...
The Power of Process
SAB was a “small” 26 million hectolitre beer brewery when it acquired Miller in the USA in 2002. Miller was more or less double the size of SAB, at 52 million hectolitres brewing capacity. ...
Investing in Infinity
About a month ago I had the opportunity to visit the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad in India. It was my first visit to India, and I was quite impressed with the facilities...
The 4 Elements of Greatness
Successful business people share a number of similar character traits. The 4 I would like to write about today, are about being visionary, having good judgement, being courageous, and having drive (or being driven)!...
