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Why Capital Consumption Kills Businesses: Avoiding the Slow Death by Decay
How much can we learn from stranded island dweller marooned on a pacific Island? Well, a lot it seems. Consider the following scenario. Let’s assume you’ve been unfortunate enough to be marooned on a...
View ArticleThe Danger of Debt-based Financing and What to do About It
Using debt to finance your business usually works fine, until it doesn’t any more. The business landscape is filled with carcasses of businesses that went under due to an excessive debt load. While...
View ArticleStrategic Risk Check-List: Are you covering the bases?
In a previous post I highlighted the importance of Strategic Risk to your business. While some risks are clearly disruptive, missing strategic risk factors can be downright destructive to the value of...
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Two Economic Charts Suggest Big Inflation is Heading for Businesses in South...
It seems very likely that we are heading for high inflation on a global level. This assumption is deduced by various analysts from two charts available from the economic research database of the St....
View ArticleBig Government Crushing Small Business – A Global Trend
From Capital Account, a very good online finance show, comes an excellent discussion on small business being crushed by volumes government laws and regulations. I am sure few would argue that many of...
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Why the ‘System’ is Rigged to Bankrupt You and What to do About It
It was early 2007. My business associate and I, were drawn to the amazing returns everyone was seemingly making in the property market. Like many entrepreneurs, developers and property speculators we...
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The National Development Plan – Some exploratory thoughts
In May 2010 the South African President Jacob Zuma, was seen to appoint the National Planning Committee (NPC) – their task was to draft a vision and national development plan for the country. The first...
View ArticleEmployees’ Job Satisfaction as viewed from the Yin and Yang Perspective (Part...
Previously, I introduced the topic of employee satisfaction as viewed from the Yin and Yang perspective. In terms of the broader discussion, I now wish to continue applying the concepts underpinning...
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