Three distinct personality traits drive entrepreneurs to take risks
Despite entrepreneurs idolized in working environments and pursued by policymakers, are their personality traits predictors of venture success?
Three ideas for leaders to be more successful in the 21st century
A confusing, overwhelming, fragmented, unstructured deluge. This is how business leaders often described their context. Yet, as the top executives of their organisations, they understand ...
5 ways to remove ego from the boardroom
Twenty-first-century leadership must move from ego to ecosystems and focusing on empowering the collective.
These are the most hated bits of office jargon
This is the most-hated office jargon, according to a UK Glassdoor study.
Here are 4 ways to become a self-aware leader
Leaders need an effective way to understand their current performance, to grow and improve. But what's the most effective way to do this?
4 ways to become a 'business baobab' on the African economic landscape
With AfCFTA coming into force next year, would-be pan-African success stories need to consider how to operate across such a diverse set of markets.
What impacts employers' decisions when it comes to employee empowerment?
Research shows employee empowerment can have significant benefits, but many leaders are reluctant. New research might reveal why.
Boardroom warriors: how CEOs are becoming champions of change
Leaders from the EMEA region – including Africa – are more motivated by long-term considerations, including social change, over profit. They will be in more demand than ever as we face up...
What to expect from the World Economic Forum on Africa 2019
More than 1,000 regional and global leaders from politics, business and academia are meeting in Cape Town to discuss Africa's sustainable growth.
5 ways to step up and become a moral leader
Moral leadership requires value, inspiration and motivation.
Why a global recession isn't inevitable
The warning signs are flashing over a new global downturn - and our power to respond is still weakened from the 2008 crash. But with a globally coordinated effort, it should be possible t...
Do we really listen to expert advice?
Despite experts giving their views on the economic situation, what they say has little value if it's unrelatable to what people see or feel around them. So what can be done to make people...