Entrepreneur and communicator

Digital
Social Media
How to Avoid a Brand Crisis in 48 Hours

When Victor Dlamini and I launched social media crisis consultancy 48 Hours late last year, we had no idea how enthusiastically the offering would be received. The response exceeded even our optimistic expectations. It became clear to us immediately that this was a service that corporate executives – and specifically those in marketing and communication […]

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SA Flag
Leadership
Life
Social Media
South Africa
Breaking the Social Media Spiral With Better Thinking

Can we use moments of pain, adversity and uncertainty to develop better thinking? Fear reduces our cognition to the lowest, crocodile-brain, common denominators. How can we avoid these traps? When a crisis strikes, the quality of our thinking and decision-making matters. Without firsthand information, panic spreads like wildfire. As a result, we find ourselves unable […]

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Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Are Happy Employees Good for Business?

I recently had the pleasure and privilege of talking to Ian Fuhr, best known for starting and growing the Sorbet Group from the ground up, and more recently for his work at the Hatch Institute, on the One-Eyed Man podcast (episode here). We spoke about the power of inclusive cultures, and the impact happy employees […]

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Digital
Leadership
What Do We Really Mean by Digital?

Is there a word in the business lexicon that we can interpret in more ways than “digital”? Is digital a thing? A set of things? Is it a way of doing things? Something you can buy or build? Is digital an ideal, or a belief, or set of values? And is this an important question […]

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MMA fighter
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Fighting While Moving Backwards

Most sports have seen their events and audiences grind to a halt during the global COVID-19 lockdown. UFC president Dana White has pounced on the opportunity in typically bold and polarising fashion, broadcasting multiple events under revised conditions. Right now it’s about the only sport fans can enjoy live. Mixed Martial Arts (MMS) is not […]

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One-Eyed Man podcast
Digital
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Life
South Africa
The One-Eyed Man podcast Season One

Do you remember those heady, idealistic early days of blogging? I was an early adopter and as such was often approached by colleagues and friends for advice about starting a blog. They would have an idea or a story to tell, had probably registered an account with Blogger or Typepad or WordPress and in some […]

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Mike presenting SME Africa
Digital
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
How SMEs can survive the COVID-19 crisis

This is an unimaginably difficult time for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It’s a tough time for everyone, to be fair, but when you’re balancing the survival of your organisation with the concern you have for your employees, economic uncertainty, and your own well-being, you have a cocktail of complexity and stress. Add to that […]

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BCX Disrupt Rapelang Rabana
Digital
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Reflections on the 2017 BCX Disrupt Summit

Social instability will get us long before AI does.” If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard someone use the words innovation or disruption in a boardroom or conference venue in the last ten years, I’d have 0.892 bitcoin. Sadly, there is an inverse correlation between the number of people who talk about innovation and […]

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The Best Business Advice You'll Ever Get
Entrepreneurship
The Best Business Advice You’ll Ever Get

I posed the question of what’s the single best piece of business advice you’d ever received to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn recently. There were some great answers, so I’ve collated and listed them here. Sorry if I didn’t manage to capture them all. If you have a gem that’s not here, please add it to […]

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Combatting Idea Inertia
Entrepreneurship
3 Steps To Combatting Idea Inertia

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. Many would argue the inherent value of ideas. Personally, I believe ideas in and of themselves are worthless. An average idea with even the tiniest first step taken is immeasurably more valuable than a phenomenal idea coupled with zero action. Derek Sivers, entrepreneur and all-round smart human, has expressed […]

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