Archive for September, 2011
September
26
2011

-Mauritz Bekker- -Do we really understand the role this phenomenon played in our survival on this planet?- Entrepreneurship, the driver of our economic wellbeing was regrettably marginalised during the relative prosperity we experienced during the industrial faze of the economy. The best way to explicate this statement is to take a trip through the economical [...]

September
19
2011

–by Mauritz Bekker– We are all born as highly innovative beings who love to explore, invent and create.  We are also provided with numerous problems, screaming for innovative and creative solutions.  All we need is the freedom to apply our talents in solving these problems.  We therefore need a climate of basic law and order [...]

September
12
2011

by Clem Sunter The level of anxiety is definitely rising in South Africa. As Chantell Ilbury and I say, we cannot eliminate your anxieties; but we can structure them in a way that you can have a rational conversation about them. We still think the scenario gameboard we have used for the past few years, [...]

September
6
2011

Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur and Author; Entrepreneurship Lecturer at U.C. Berkeley, Stanford University, and the Columbia University/Berkeley Joint Executive MBA Program “Entrepreneur” has become one of those buzzwords (like “globalization”) that often means different things to different people. This is understandable, given that there are four distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: small businesses, scalable startups, [...]