It can be very difficult for first-time job seekers to find employment. Most often, this is because school leavers, and even university graduates, simply don’t have any real-world, practical experience that they can offer to their potential employers. In addition, it can be a struggle for workers in low-income manual jobs...

Employees are any business’ most important assets – they are the human resources that create products, provide services and keep the business going. But all people have unique personalities, worldviews, habits and motivations – they don’t always work well together or create the results that the business wants. The key to...

Security is a huge issue on the Internet. Rightly so! Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes, and a lot of identity theft happens online.

Facebook certainly has had their issues with Internet security. About a year ago,

Our secrets of success are the following: Only sell a good product. In fact sell the best product or a better one than your opposition. Make sure the product has passed the quality test.  Sell at the same price or preferably than your opposition. Remember quality can never be comprised no...

  For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own...

If starting a business is difficult, the market, legal and competition research one has to go through to get a good footing in the market is a sheer death experience. If only it was as simple as selling sweets to our classmates when we were younger, but no. As a young entrepreneur...

From the Management tune-up programme available on Cd’s from www.leadersedge.co.za

If you have a sign stuck on your door, or one stuck in your mind for when you have advanced a bit further up your career ladder, that says “Manager”, it may be time to stop doing things and to start making things happen. Particularly if you are the owner-manager of a small business!

 

“I keep six honest serving men (they’ve taught me all I knew)

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who….  Rudyard Kipling

Athletes on the track win by a split second...canoeists by an oar stroke…horses by a nose…football teams by one creative pass. The winners have just a slight edge over the rest of the field and this we call The Leader’s Edge. In business it’s also the all-important difference between leading the field and being one of the “also-rans”.

The hardest thing for all of us involved in small business is how to cost effectively find new business. Everything starts and ends with generating new business. Without new business there are no products to make or no services to be delivered.

I thought of giving some input as how software can improve the way you do business. How to make the write choice regarding a business solution for your company. I would admit at this point that I would be somewhat biased in this regard.