A good workplace should encourage creativity and overflow with it. A creative workplace is not natural, but it can certainly be developed. Creativity finds you at an unexpected time and place, but don’t wait for it to find you, keep looking. Not every job requires constant creative skills, but you can improve the teams’ or […]

If you’re absolutely new to work-from-home pattern of work because of the pandemic, there are a few things that would require change in order to make work from home a success. Check out these tips to ensure productivity: Maintain regular hours Create a schedule for your working hours and stick to it. When you have […]

Entire nations are placed under strict lockdown and people are stashing supplies. The on-going pandemic experiences have restructured employees and their employers’ viewpoint of the workplace.  It has affected overall wellbeing, ways of interaction amongst each other and the flexibility offered by employers. Even after the coronavirus leaves, the effect will be felt on how we […]

Coronavirus has led to an unforeseen disruption of business activities, abrupt shutdowns, job losses, forceful restructuring, salary cuts, and economic hardship. All these are as a result of a general ill-preparedness of the ecosystem.     The business landscape had not seen anything compared to COVID-19. The first global pandemic was the Spanish Flu that ravaged […]

Phuti Mahanyele is an accomplished businesswoman of South African descent. She is the CEO of Naspers South Africa and is also Executive Chairman of Sigma Capital. Phuti is an experienced CEO with a consistent history and experience in management, leadership and business development. After graduating from Mc Auley House Convent, she left Johannesburg at the […]

Dear Agro stakeholders, we are pleased to announce to you that our annual agro-promotion event ‘Meet the Farmers Conference’ (MTFC 2019), is just 75 days away! MTFC 2019 will host top stakeholders in the agricultural value chain across Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in a highly-powered gathering of top stakeholders in the agriculture […]

Success is the benchmark of every organization. Considering that businesses love to scale performance, profitability and also dominate in their field. You see, there comes a time when you have exhausted all strategies to maximize production and scale sales in your business. A time when you are stuck, tired of the old routine and in […]

4 WAYS TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL About three years ago, I and a friend decided to start a business selling women’s shoes around campus. We discussed briefly what we would like to do, got in contact with a distributor and went over to the warehouse and bought 120 pairs of high heels in […]

WHY AN INCREASE IN THE US’S INTEREST RATES COULD AFFECT YOU BUSINESS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD This week’s top news story in the business world is that the Federal Reserve (that is the Central Bank of the USA) has announced an increase in interest rate by 0.25%. This announcement was accompanied by […]

4 WAYS TO GET FUNDING FOR YOUR START-UP With its reputation for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship, the United Arab Emirates is an enviable location to set up your business. But, setting up a business requires a substantial amount of funding. As a fresh business, you are considered a high-risk business and it’s difficult to get […]