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1 week ago |
mba.co.za | Wendy du Plessis
GIBS positions itself as a leading global business school that champions African excellence, as GIBS Dean Professor Morris Mthombeni maintains. “As Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana said, ‘We face neither East nor West; we face forward.’” Mthombeni said the school was “mindful of the difficult past we come from as a continent and of the constraints that we currently face.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
mba.co.za | Wendy du Plessis
How do you measure your success? Is it the time you can spend doing as you choose? Or are success and happiness intrinsically linked to money? Between November 2023 and March 2024, Nedbank and GIBS ran the Happiness Survey in an attempt to measure and understand how “happy” South Africans were during this time period.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
acumenmagazine.co.za | Mpho Majoro |Russel Jones |Eugene Yiga |Wendy du Plessis
For some, the ‘great man’ theory – which attributes leadership traits to natural abilities – best explains the conundrum. For others, however, the debate leans toward the ‘development’ argument that argues for nurturing, mentoring, and teaching leaders to shepherd organisations. With the establishment of business schools across the world, the concept of what leadership entails continues to be explored and researched extensively.
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Oct 23, 2024 |
acumenmagazine.co.za | Russel Jones |Eugene Yiga |Wendy du Plessis |Alison Jane Reid
From a Showmax docuseries to numerous true crime podcasts to countless deep-dives on social media videos, the shocking Thabo Bester story captured attention globally. Its twists and turns defied what many South Africans, already accustomed to high levels of crime, could ever have deemed feasible. Tragic acts of murder, rape, and a burned body made news headlines the world over. Equally unbelievable, however, was the corporate fraud and scams perpetuated by Bester over decades.
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Oct 20, 2024 |
acumenmagazine.co.za | Eugene Yiga |Wendy du Plessis |Alison Jane Reid |Jenny Moore
Once upon a time, getting a job was a lot simpler. Candidates would send a CV to a recruiter or the HR department of a prospective company, an actual human being would read it, and the candidate would either be shortlisted for an interview or turned down. Nowadays, with hundreds of people sometimes applying for a single job, it’s not feasible to process the applications manually.
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