Category: Digital
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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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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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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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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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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