Authors: R Wilkinson & K Pickett Publisher: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books (2009), 331 pages The central message of The Spirit Level is that (at least amongst the world’s developed economies) the more egalitarian societies (like Norway and Japan, for instance) appear to function much better than more unequal societies (like the US ...
Image via Wikipedia Why SMMEs fail By Charles Pittaway, CEO of Netcash Successfully steering a new business through its first five years is not a challenge for the faint-hearted. Charles Pittaway, who founded Netcash in 2001 to provide payment services to other small and medium business owners, shares some of the lessons of his entrepreneurial ...
Cover via Amazo A penny for your thoughts? They say talk is cheap. But cheap talk, in the form of unreal conversations, is offensively expensive for organisations and individuals. Every organisation feels it has real conversations with its employees, customers, territory and the unknown future emerging around it, and most people say they prefer hearing ...
Cover via Amazon What most needs your attention is usually what most has your attention. But, if you don’t pay attention to what has your attention, it grabs much more of your attention than it deserves. This is according to David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done, whose ‘Getting Things Done’(GTD) method helps people ...