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Jan 25

Jan 25 How To Win At Business? Make It Boring.

In a world of shiny things, it’s easy to get distracted by the ‘new’. It’s a hard thing to remain focused on the hard things.

Jan 18

Jan 18 Leadership Starts With You (And Me)

7 Discipline

The lack of leadership in South Africa right now makes even me, a die-hard optimist, grumpy.

Jan 11

Jan 11 How To Start The Year Right. Hint: Keep It Simple.

When the focus is clear, the tasks and responsibilities become even clearer.

Dec 21

Dec 21 This Is What A ‘Bottom Up’ Revolution Looks Like

10 Adventure

Working with our partners, PayFast, Xero, Capitalise, Whipping The Cat and xneelo, we've pulled together a community of 40,000 entrepreneurs, all working together to uplift our economy.

Oct 13

Oct 13 You Will Die Someday

In a fragile world, it is increasingly apparent that we need to create stakeholder value. Our stakeholders are our customers, our team and our society.

Oct 5

Oct 5 It Is No Longer Just Good Enough To Be Just Good Enough

We need to think hard about what aspects of life we value. In return, our people, customers and communities will value us for those aspects.

Oct 1

Oct 1 Five Lessons In Sales

After a month of focusing on selling stuff, here are my five top takeaways from all our interviews and research, including this week’s entrepreneur event focusing on sales and targeting.

Sep 21

Sep 21 It's Time To Get 'Out There'

When asked ‘what contributed most to your development as an entrepreneur?’ 60% of us said ‘learning by myself’. But then, 64% of us also ticked the box ‘learning from others’.

Sep 17

Sep 17 How Does Heavy Chef Get Such Epic People On Our Platform?

We’ve featured some pretty epic ‘chefs’ in our time. President Thabo Mbeki. Aisha Pandor. Robyn Smith. Amanda du-Pont. President Olusegun Obasanjo. Siya Kolisi. And many many more, both on our learning platform and our events platform.

Sep 8

Sep 8 What Secret Ingredient Is Common To Successful Entrepreneurs?

Is there a common recipe or a secret ingredient to Elon Musk, Robyn Smith, Adrian Gore, Aisha Pandor and Koos Bekker?

Aug 30

Aug 30 How Can I Be Of Service?

11 Service

We made a difficult decision regarding our events at Heavy Chef. Here’s why.

Aug 24

Aug 24 Supporting Women-Owned Businesses In South Africa

Women account for less than 1 in 5 business owners in South Africa. There is work to be done.

Aug 10

Aug 10 A Very Special Day

3 Family

Yesterday - Women’s Day 2022 - was a particularly meaningful day for me.

Jul 24

Jul 24 What Makes Business Values So Valuable?

Accurately defined values mean a more scalable business, better staff retention, the ability to attract the right people, improved decision-making, empowered teams and… a more enjoyable place to work.

Jul 19

Jul 19 Can Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things?

Here in South Africa, there are a lot of us ordinary folks doing a lot of hard work, aiming to achieve extraordinary things.

Apr 15

Apr 15 Why We Should Care About Business Values

11 Service

I wrote a version of Heavy Chef’s values yesterday.

Feb 22

Feb 22 The Inherited Problem Of Education

One of the primary challenges with education started with a guy around 100 years ago. As it happens, he was also called Fred.

Jan 20

Jan 20 The Ingredients Of 'Heart'

There is an old Jewish proverb that goes something like this: ‘guard your heart because it is the wellspring of life.’ I’ve been thinking of this thing, heart, a lot lately.

Jul 14

Jul 14 Peace