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TIME MANAGEMENT; ARE YOU MAKING THE BEST USE OF THE TIME YOU HAVE LEFT?

February 23, 2011 No Comments

Almost everyone needs or wants more money than they currently have, and with this desire most of these people would like to start some sort of extra income producing project. The trouble is, not many of these people seem able to fit “a second job” into their time schedules. It’s true that people are very ...

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How Do You Magnetically Attract People To You

February 12, 2011 No Comments

Author: Jackie Khor Would you like to become wealthy working from home, pay off your debts, spend more time with your family, and retire in style? Would you like to have a multi-million dollar investment portfolio, live a life of abundance and eventually leave a rich legacy for your children? If so, I have some ...

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Maximising employee passion: the eight critical success factors

July 17, 2009 No Comments

Organisations that maximise employee passion – a key factor in creating customer loyalty grow more sustainably, make more money and perform better on the stock market than their apathetic peers. According to researchers at leading training and development firm The Ken Blanchard Companies®. Dr Drea Zigarmi, Dobie Houson and David Witt, employee passion extends beyond the meaning of some of the present research on engagement. It is a complex end state, dependent on eight critical success factors:

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The three keys to success in uncertain times

June 4, 2009 No Comments

business flexibility, awareness and resilience The future belongs to companies whose senior executives remain calm, carefully assess their options and nurture the flexibility, awareness and resilience needed to deal with whatever the world throws at them. Organisations need greater flexibility to create strategic and tactical options they can proactively and reactively use as their conditions ...

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Talk is cheap, and cheap talk; expensive

May 25, 2009 No Comments

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 ...

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OTHER ADVANTAGES OF UTILISING YOUR HOMELOAN AS A SAVINGS ACCOUNT

You will have seen from the examples above that you can save thousands of Rands and settle your bond...

PAY YOUR INSTALMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, PAY IN ADVANCE, AND NOT ARREARS

If you change jobs and your payday changes, ensure that you notify the bank immediately. Paying just 2 day...

BUY WELL WITHIN YOUR MEANS

A lot of people make the mistake of buying a house very close to the maximum for which they...

DO NOT ALLOW THE BANK TO ADD ON COSTS

Today’s competition between banks for bond business is very strong. This results in them making various offers to their...

TAKE A MAXIMUM TRAVEL ALLOWANCE

This piece of information is closely related to the section on not taking a 13th cheque from your employer....

DO NOT REDUCE PAYMENTS WHEN INTEREST RATES DECREASE

In South Africa, interest rates are often subject to wide fluctuations with little warning. When rates decrease, the banks...

DO NOT TAKE A 13TH CHEQUE

A popular practice amongst companies today is to allow staff to decide whether or not they would like a...

USE YOUR “DORMANT” MONTHLY FUNDS

These examples show how much you can benefit simply by placing funds which you only need at a later...

Home Loan Series Vol 2

The problem, as discussed in the previous article, is the capitalisation of interest, over and over again EVERY MONTH...

Homeloan Series Vol 1

The purpose of this series of articles is to provide bondholders in South Africa with practical and simple methods...